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While maternal healthcare challenges are attributed to several challenges, chronic underfunding remains the leading factor.

“Nigeria's health indicators are reportedly some of the worst in Africa. COVID-19 has exposed additional gaps in the country's healthcare system and has shown why the sector requires ambitious strategies and adequate funding in order to serve the masses, particularly the poor and most vulnerable in the society,” Nigeria Country Director at The ONE Campaign, Mr Stanley Achonu, said.

The Civil Society in Malaria Control, Immunisation and Nutrition (ACOMIN) has called for accountability and transparency in utilisation of budgetary allocations to health and also stressed

Parasitology and Public Health Society of Nigeria (PPSN), yesterday, expressed concern over increasing tropical parasitic Diseases and their adverse effects on the African continent over the years,

NIGERIA’S health budget as a percentage of the total budget is declining, with 34 states failing to meet the 15 per cent adequate health funding benchmark

Federal and state governments in Nigeria continue to flout the 15 percent health funding benchmark for African countries, according to ONE Campaign. The

Our reporting revealed that PHC facilities in the country cannot provide essential healthcare services.

Lusaka - Zambia: Non-governmental Gender Organisations Coordinating Council (NGOCC) Executive Director Anne Mbewe Anamela has said the 2023 National Budget

Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (NLSN), at the weekend, cautioned the Federal Government against privatising healthcare services in the country, saying such decision will cripple the system and hinder poor Nigerians from accessing quality medicare. Also calling for increased budgetary allocation to strengthen the sector, NLSN accused government of allegedly defaulting on the […]

According to research from the World Health Organization, around 75 per cent of new diseases that have affected humans over the last decade were caused by pathogens carried by animals. Some of (...)