As our public health sector continues to deteriorate, it is impossible not to notice the absence of any sustained advocacy. This is most obvious in the HIV/AIDS arena. Nigeria has the second highest number of people infected in the world, over 3 million of us! Less than 500,000 are on treatment – all funded by […]
Recently the Minister of Health called the press together and presented the WHO certificate of elimination to the President. He is reported to have said during the ceremony that “The Guinea Worm free certificate will further spur his (Jonathan’s) administration’s commitment to fight against many endemic diseases such as HIV/AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis and of course polio” and that “The certification by WHO […]
It has been circulating through the rumour mill for quite some time, but now it is confirmed. The Minister of Health has declared that he is ready to serve the good people of Ebonyi State as their Governor, if he is invited! Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, Nigerian Minister of Health (culled from Punch Newspapers) He apparently […]
N262B (1.7Billion USD) has been allocated to #health in Nigeria’s 2014 budget; of which 82% is going to recurrent expenditure. All the detailed allocations to the Ministry of Health can be found here. We urge you to go to the website, download a copy (who knows how long it will be up) and use it to hold […]
Sadly, we are faced with another tragedy. Award-winning novelist and popular academic unionist, Festus Iyayi, was killed in Lokoja when a vehicle in the convoy of Governor Idris Wada of Kogi State rammed into the bus conveying him, and his colleagues to Kano. The group were on their way to attend a meeting of the […]
