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Nigeria: Is Basic Health Care Provision Fund Leaving No One Behind?
Nigeria Health Watch, 18 December 2019
Editor’s Note: For UHC Day on December 12th, The Nigeria Health Watch team in partnership with Centre for Family Health Initiative (CFHI), held a Community UHC Forum in Jiwa,… Read more »
Is Nigeria's Basic Health Care Fund Leaving No One Behind?
Nigeria Health Watch's Programme Analyst, Aloysius Chidiebere Ugwu, writes about key learnings from the Universal Health Coverage forum, highlighting the importance of ensuring that communities are brought onboard and involved in the process, if Nigeria is indeed to achieve Universal Health Coverage and "leave no one behind". The mandate of Universal Health Coverage is to "leave no one behind" regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, and social status. This means that nothing should deprive anyone from accessing affordable and quality care.
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Nigeria: Appraising Quest for Universal Health Coverage
Daily Trust, 12 December 2019
As the World marks the 2019 Universal Health Coverage Day, Nigeria's health situation calls for reflection, scrutiny and commitment to doing different things and doing things… Read more »
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Nigeria: From Land to Sea - Improving Maternal and Child Health Access in Lagos State
Nigeria Health Watch, 16 December 2019
Ensuring that people everywhere have access to affordable, quality healthcare at the point of need, is an imperative that requires urgent action. Access is one of the three… Read more »
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Nigeria: Living In Dirt - Nigeria's Waste Crisis Requires Urgent Action
Nigeria Health Watch, 12 December 2019
Editor's Note: In this Thought Leadership Piece, Nigeria Health Watch Health Events Manager, Thelma Thomas highlights the breakdown of sanitation in Nigeria and how this is… Read more »
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Nigeria: Is Nigeria Failing People Living with Disabilities?
Nigeria Health Watch, 4 December 2019
"I want everyone to remember, to reflect, that they are one fall away from being a person with a disability. How would you want to be treated?" - Dr. Stella Iwuagwu, Executive… Read more »
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Nigeria: 'How Nigeria Can Achieve Universal Health Coverage By 2030'
Guardian, 8 April 2019
Experts are optimistic that Nigeria and indeed the rest of the world can achieve the Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030. Read more »
InFocus
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Imagine a world where healthcare is less about the treatment of disease and more about health promotion, disease prediction and prevention. We would see innovation in medicine as ... Read more »
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The two-day health dialogue, now in its second year, grew from the need for home-grown solutions, innovations and political commitments to bridge funding gaps in achieving ... Read more »
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The 2020 budget proposed by the Nigerian government includes appropriations for 20 health-related projects - but only for construction, with no funding for staffing. The Ministry ... Read more »
