Category: News
Health Financing Webinar Series: Unlocking Climate Finance for Health
The health burden of climate change is enormous, and the annual adaptation financing gap for health in LMIC is estimated at USD 11 billion. However, health accounts for less than 0.5% of multilateral funding for climate financing. Limited awareness of health priorities within multilateral climate funds has been recognized as a key barrier, in addition…
NHIA Identifies Partnership Coordination as Catalyst for Attaining Universal Health Coverage
As part of efforts aimed at repositioning the NHIA and putting Nigeria on the UHC trajectory, the current NHIA leadership has outlined strategic goals focused on expanding coverage, promoting equity, improving the quality of care, and enhancing market efficiency. Achieving these goals will require key enablers, including citizen-centered engagement, effective use of data and technology,…
Experts Identify Sustainable Financing Pathway for Health Amidst Donor Funding Uncertainty
The recent decision by the United States government to cease foreign development aid and assistance is a wake-up call for sustainable and self-reliant financing for health. Based on this, the Nigeria Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Forum organized a webinar on the 6th of February 2025. The webinar was geared towards expounding on the impact of…
Nigeria UHC Forum Organize Stakeholders Roundtable to Commemorate the 2024 UHC Day
To commemorate the 2024 Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day, the Nigeria UHC Forum, in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (FMoH&SW), with support from the USAID Local Health System Sustainability (LHSS) Project and PharmAccess Foundation organized a roundtable event to forge a consensus on sustained prioritization of UHC in Nigeria. A…
Harmonized BHCPF Accountability Framework Ready for Rollout
In a bid to raise the accountability bar for health financing including the implementation of the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) in Nigeria, the BHCPF Ministerial Oversight Committee (MOC) secretariat with support of the USAID Local Health System Sustainability (LHSS) Project organized a one-day stakeholder’s workshop to validate the harmonized BHCPF accountability framework after…
Strengthening Partnership for Climate-Resilient Health System: DGI Engaged the New DG of the NCCC
Healthcare activities account for at least 5% of global greenhouse gas emission and the sector bears a huge brunt of climate change with increased disease prevalence. As a case in point, climate change is responsible for additional 5 million cases of malaria globally. However, health sector has not significantly benefited from climate adaptation financing opportunities…
Stakeholders Identify Effective Approaches to Strengthen PHC Delivery and Accountability in Nigeria
In furtherance of its quest to put Universal Health Coverage on the policy front burner in Nigeria, the Nigeria UHC Forum organised a PHC Strategic Stakeholder Engagement in collaboration with the National Primary Health Care Development Agency with support from Options Consultancy UK. The PHC Strategic Engagement was part of efforts geared towards effective engagements…
PRESS RELEASE
RE: LAGOS STATE GOVERNOR’S EXECUTIVE ORDER ON COMPULSORY SUBSCRIPTION TO SOCIAL HEALTH INSURANCE The Nigeria Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Forum received with great enthusiasm the news of the Executive Order signed by His Excellency Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the Executive Governor of Lagos State. This order, which makes it mandatory for workers and residents of Lagos…
Stakeholders Identify Strategies for Effective Health Tax Policy Design and Implementation in Nigeria
Nigeria, like other Low-and-Middle-Income Countries (LMICs), is recording an increasing burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), as close to a third of all deaths in the country is now attributable to NCDs. It is imperative to deploy effective tools to tackle NCDs including health taxes by exploring the political and socio-economic factorsthat influence their design and…
Nutrition Desk Officers Trained on Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) in Nasarawa and the FCT
In the quest to expand access to nutrition services for the vulnerable and marginalized population in target communities in Keffi LGA of Nasarawa State and AMAC and Bwari Area Council in the FCT, DGI through the Christian Aid Nigeria funded project – ‘’ ‘Integrated Approach to Building Community Resilience in Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and…