The Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has launched the global community into a health crisis of an unanticipated magnitude, with far-reaching socio-economic consequences. The vulnerability of the Nigerian economy to global... read more →
Signing the National Health Bill into an Act at the twilight of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in 2014 was greeted with euphoria largely because it paved the way for implementation... read more →
Nigeria's Huge TB burden is largely attributable to the wide gap in financing TB activities articulated in the National TB Strategic Plan; in 2018, only a quarter of funds needed... read more →
Government spending on health in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) falls short of recommended benchmarks needed to make significant progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC). As a case in point, Lesotho was... read more →
Introduction Monumental socio-economic devastation caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic brings to the fore the need to further engender and prioritize health security policy and funding globally and locally. The... read more →
Introduction The health security landscape in Nigeria has witnessed considerable transformations in the last couple of years with significant investment in epidemic prevention, detection and treatment by the National Centre... read more →
The Build Back Better webinar series is designed to engender health system resilience by promoting agenda-setting conversations among policy makers, donor agencies, Civil Society and professional bodies. The webinar series... read more →
15 February 2014 NIGERIA accounts for a disproportionate share of global burden of disease; while Nigerians represent just 2 percent of the world population the country accounts for 13 percent... read more →
22 February 2017 Gaps in availability and quality of maternal health care services constitute a major obstacle to achieving the desired maternal health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries such... read more →
26 February 2020 The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) established in 1999 with the mandate of extending health insurance to all Nigerians by the year 2015. However, a few defects... read more →
