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The Nigerian health sector is severely underfunded. Each budget year, the majority of health advocates lament the federal government’s inability to meet the Abuja Declaration’s target of allocating at least 15% of the country’s budget to the health sector.

Doctors are demanding the implementation of a 2017 agreement to improve working conditions.

African governments are falling far short in their commitments to prioritize public spending on health care, contributing to widespread inequalities in healthcare access and outcomes, Human Rights Watch and the Kampala-based Initiative for Social and Economic Rights (ISER) said today.

In its health and education situation report, Zimcodd said Zimbabwe’s healthcare system was plagued by inadequate finance, corruption, biased spending and lack of community involvement.

In its health and education situation report, Zimcodd said Zimbabwe’s healthcare system was plagued by inadequate finance, corruption, biased spending and lack of community involvement.

Public sector wages are often constrained by budgetary limits and do not rise as one would expect given the low supply of professionals.

New data from the World Health Organization shows that many governments around the world did not meet public healthcare spending benchmarks amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Nigeria’s health services are in disarray as doctors and other health workers in public health institutions are overworked and underpaid

Nigeria's health budget remains well below the 15 per cent commitment, harming health outcomes, say medics.

And outlining what it will take to get it back.