Nigeria: Jigawa State Govt Outlines 2026 Health Priorities, Unveils Free Dialysis Expansion

He also highlighted persistent operational gaps that still require investment, including water supply, staff accommodation, functional laboratories and solar power systems. Read more »

Nigeria: What Katsina Govt Is Doing to Strengthen Primary Healthcare - Commissioner

Mr Funtua said the current administration is prioritising infrastructure upgrades, workforce expansion and community-centred service delivery as part of its 2026 health financing… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria Exceeds Global HIV Treatment Benchmarks, Moves Toward Eliminating Aids - Official

Mr Salako noted that Nigeria has placed 98 per cent of people living with HIV on treatment, surpassing the UNAIDS target. Read more »

Nigeria: Resident Doctors Issue Fresh Ultimatum, Demand MOU Implementation

NARD said it examined all agreements reached with the government over the years, many of which remain unfulfilled despite repeated assurances. Read more »

Nigeria: World Aids Day - Ahf to Expand Sti Treatment Access, Plans Wellness Centre in Nasarawa

World AIDS Day, observed annually on 1 December, serves as a reminder of the progress made in the global HIV response and the gaps that persist. Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria Ready to Adopt $40 Twice-Yearly HIV Prevention Injection - NACA DG

This follows the rollout of the drug, known as lenacapavir, in South Africa, Eswatini, and Zambia. Read more »

Nigeria: Measles Deaths Fall 88% Since 2000, but Global Cases Surge - WHO

The report shows that about 95,000 people, most of them children under the age of five, died from measles in 2024. Read more »

Nigeria: World Aids Day - First Lady Urges Renewed Commitment, Warns Against Stigma

As of the end of 2024, an estimated 40.8 million people were living with HIV globally Read more »

Nigeria: Kaduna State's Health Sector Still in Crisis Despite Government's Funding Claims

Despite these claims, PREMIUM TIMES' reports published between 2023 and 2025 show persistent gaps across the state's health system, raising questions about whether the government's… Read more »

Africa: WHO Warns of Shrinking HIV Funding, Urges African Govts to Boost Investment

The organisation said the continent must urgently protect hard-won gains against HIV amid a rapidly changing global funding landscape that threatens to slow progress. Read more »

Nigeria: Resident Doctors Suspend Strike

Confirming the development in a telephone conversation with PREMIUM TIMES, NARD President, Muhammad Suleiman said the strike has been suspended for four weeks. Read more »

Nigeria: Experts Discuss Challenges in Nigeria's Health Sector, Demand Urgent Reforms

Health sector leaders and policymakers on Thursday outlined urgent steps Nigeria must take to strengthen primary healthcare (PHC) delivery and mobilise sustainable financing in a… Read more »

Nigeria: State Officials Outline Plans to Fix Health Systems

State health officials have outlined new plans and reforms to strengthen the healthcare system at the subnational level. Read more »

Nigeria: Minister Highlights Challenges, Progress, Solutions in Nigeria's Health Sector

"What has taken decades to atrophy will take time to fix," he said. "But we are fixing it without distraction." Read more »

Nigeria: Nigerian Govt Recommits to Innovation, Improved Funding to Ensure Better Health Service Delivery

Health officials renewed calls for evidence-based policymaking, practical innovation, and sustainable financing in Nigeria. Read more »

Nigeria: 2025 National Health Dialogue - Policymakers, Experts Discuss Innovation, Health Financing - (Live Updates)

The Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Muhammad Pate, will headline the Dialogue in a fireside discussion focused on Nigeria's reform priorities, the future of primary… Read more »

Nigeria: How Jigawa's Underfunded Rural Health System Fuels Infant, Maternal Mortality

Jigawa State Government's spending on prestige projects continues to deprive essential services, such as healthcare, of funds. Read more »

Nigeria: Jigawa Targets 1.5 Million Children in Polio Immunisation

The November immunisation drive is scheduled to be conducted from 27 November to 3 December 2025 Read more »

Nigeria: Stanbic Ibtc Hosts 11th Together4alimb Walk - Empowers 200 Children Across Nigeria

The event, which has become a hallmark of corporate social responsibility in Nigeria's financial services sector, saw participants embark on a symbolic walk in Victoria Island. Read more »

Nigeria: Lead Poison - Nigerian Govt Shuts Down Recycling Company After Premium Times/the Examination Investigation

During an inspection of True Metals, the battery-recycling plant at the centre of the investigation, the minister found workers operating in what she described as "hazardous and… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria Meets Two of Three Global HIV Targets - Naca

Under the UNAIDS 95-95-95 global targets, countries are expected by 2030 to ensure that 95 per cent of people living with HIV know their status, 95 per cent of those diagnosed… Read more »

Nigeria: Japan, Who Donate $500,000 Cholera Response Commodities, Others to Nigeria

As part of this support, life-saving commodities valued at $104,951 were also delivered to the NCDC. Read more »

Nigeria: Special Report - Persons With Disabilities Suffer Exclusion From Healthcare in Kano Communities

The PWDs rely on poorly equipped PHCs that make no provisions for them. Read more »

Nigeria: Special Report - Bauchi Communities Struggle to Access Healthcare As Govt Fiddles With Funding Priorities

While some PHCs have been renovated, many communities have no health centres, and others are dilapidated, while the government spends billions on Government House and the House of… Read more »

Africa: Africa CDC Warns of Surge in Cholera, Mpox, Marburg Across Continent

He said Africa cannot achieve universal health coverage or pandemic preparedness without the ability to finance, produce, and govern its own health systems and countermeasures. Read more »