Nigeria's Missed Opportunity Amidst Successful Demographic Health Survey

13 September 2019

A review of the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) for 2018 indicates that a crucial opportunity has been missed. While the survey has seen some improvements since the year it started, once again, data on non-communicable disease (NCD) is absent from this all-important document.

The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) is a household survey that provides data on a variety of monitoring and impact evaluation indicators in the health domain.

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