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Nigeria: DFID, Paths Launch N13.2 Billion Health Support Programme
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Leadership (Abuja)
16 June 2008
Posted to the web 16 June 2008
Justus Nduwugwe
The Partnership for Transforming Health Systems (PATHS) operating in Nigeria in the last six years, in collaboration with the Department for International Development, DfID, last week launched N13.2billion health systems support programme.
The effort of PATHS which brought about reduction in drug counterfeiting rate in Nigeria , has received the commendation of the National Agency for Food and Administration Control (NAFDAC) and other stakeholders.
The Director General, NAFDAC, Prof Dora Akunyili Prof Akinyuli said PATHS was instrumental to the reduction of fake, counterfeit and unregistered drugs in Nigeria . She said the success with fake drugs dated from 2003 when PATHS began exploratory discussions with NAFDAC on how to improve its capacity for regulating the food and drug industry Prof Akunyili, who was represented at the event by Mr Hashim Obale Yusufu, a director in the organization stated that a survey report of the campaign against unwholesome drugs in 2006 showed a substantial reduction of the menace.
Akunyili also pointed out that fake drugs had dropped from about 41 per cent to 16.7 per cent, while unregistered drugs reduced to 19 per cent from 68 per cent in 2001, Akunyili added NAFDAC which won an award for being the federal agency most committed to change acknowledged PATHS' role in its successes as a food and drug regulatory agency Dr. Zakaria Gyas, Director of Health Planning and Research from Kaduna State said due to collaboration with PATHS the state had developed an effective Health Management Information System (HMIS), which has impacted on planning, resource allocation and general health delivery.
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