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Nigeria: Dangote, Pate, Ovia, Others Raise N3.9 Billion for Health MDGs
Daily Trust, 13 May 2014
The Chairman of Dangote Group Alhaji Aliko Dangote, former Minister of State for Health Prof. Muhammed Ali Pate, former Managing Director of Zenith Bank Jim Ovia, Read more »
Uniting for Nigerian Mothers and Babies
Nigeria's Private Sector Health Alliance this month spotlighted a $24 million 'Save a Million Lives' initiative, partly by reducing high levels of mother and infant deaths in pregnancy and childbirth. Commitments were announced in Abuja during the World Economic Forum on Africa in May by Alliance founding patron Aliko Dangote and co-chairs Jim Ovia and Muhammad Ali Pate.
Advocates for reducing mother and infant deaths welcome pledges of over $24 million to Nigeria's efforts in Abuja during the World Economic Forum on Africa in May. Participants in the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria announcement including front row from left: Kogi State Governor Idris Wada, Jim Ovia, Aliko Dangote, Health Minister Christian Onyebuchi Chukwu and Wellbeing Foundation Founder Toyin Saraki.
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Nigeria: Scaling Up Nigeria's Healthcare Infrastructure and Unlocking Market Potential
This Day, 11 May 2014
As the World Economic Forum on Africa ended last Friday, Paul Obi writes that Nigerian healthcare system attracted some benefits from the forum. Read more »
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Nigeria: General Electric Grants U.S.$1.5 Million to Technicians
Independent (Lagos), 7 May 2014
The General Electric (GE) Foundation, in collaboration with the Developing World Healthcare Technology Laboratory at Duke University and Engineering World Health, have initiated a… Read more »
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Nigeria: Action Plan Aimed at Improving Newborn Survival
Wellbeing Foundation, 22 May 2014
To stimulate progress on improving newborn survival, and to further the objectives of 'Every Newborn: an action plan to end preventable deaths' (ENAP), which will be formally… Read more »
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Nigeria: 'Health Sector Depends on Quality of Human Resources'
Independent (Lagos), 10 May 2014
The World Economic Forum Africa (WEFA) 2014 hosted by Nigeria in Abuja has come and gone but it would no doubt continue to reverberate especially when key players who pledged their… Read more »
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Nigeria: NGO Donates N3.9 Billion to Support MDGs
Daily Trust, 9 May 2014
A non-government organisation, Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria yesterday donated N3.9 billion ($24.2 million) to the health sector to accelerate government's efforts to… Read more »
