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For a decade, the ethos of the University of Pretoria (UP) Institute for Sustainable Malaria Control (UP ISMC) has been to transcend disciplines to allow for transdisciplinary collaborations and translational applications towards malaria elimination, as outlined in a paper published in In order for research to make an impact on the drive towards malaria elimination, researchers must collaborate in a transdisciplinary manner and ensure that their research translates into tangible outcomes to sa...

How much should governments spend on data? Image from Chapter 2 of the 2021 World Development Report: Data for Better Lives Some years ago, researchers documented that marathon finishing times follow a special pattern. Many runners finish just ahead of 3:30 hours, 4:00 hours, and other 30-minute thresholds while few people finish just after those thresholds. There is no physiological reason to believe that runners are much more capable of finishing 42.2 kilometers in three hours and fifty-nine ...

Health worker Hajanata Balhelomeu examines a young child in a health clinic in Yola, Adamawa state, Nigeria, January 2020. Pneumonia kills more than 800,000 children under 5 every year. Nigerian children made up the highest number of those who died. © Siegfried Modola/UNI279456/UNICEF NewsDefeat Poverty Nigeria’s Doctors Are Striking. Here’s Why and What This Means for COVID-19. Its the third time in a year that Nigeria’s doctors have gone on strike over working conditi...

HFFG calls for increase in health budgetary allocations to bridge immunization gap By Beyonce Diamond Kpogli APR 1, 2021 Hope For Future Generations and its partners have called on the government to increase health budget allocation in order to mitigate the immunization gap in the country which has been funded by donors for years. According to HFFG, ghana is likely to face challenges if nothing is done in the health sector domestically should the donors back off in 2026. Civil Society Organiz...

The Research Center for Policy Advocacy and Governance has taken notice of the ldquo;Agenda 111 Health infrastructure rdquo; initiative announced by H.E President Akufo-Addo in his State of the Nation Address on Tuesday, March 9, 2021 delivered in Parliament in accordance with article 67 of the 1992 constitution, to ensure access to healthcare and improve wellbeing Giving additional details in the recent SONA, the President indicated that the Agenda 111, will see to the construction of

President Muhammadu Buhari President Muhammadu Buhari, has lamented lamented the adverse effects of climate change across the globe, particularly in the Lake Chad Basin. Buhari stated this at the high-level meeting of the African Union Peace and Security Council (AU-PSC) on securing sustainable peace in Africa. He  said across the world, climate change has contributed to rising insurgency and armed conflict, partly in response to emerging challenges with resultant displacement of persons and ...

Tax breaks – who are they intended for? Wednesday March 10 2021 By RIVA JALIPA When we try to help those in more need than ourselves, we generally give away what we have, or what we do not need. If we were contributing to a common cause, we may adjust what we are able to contribute depending on our means. It works the same with taxation – those who have and earn more, are taxed more and those who have and earn less are taxed less –or at least thats how it should work – with these contri...

Sunday Alamba/AP Global Citizen AsksDemand Equity 1 in 22 Nigerian Women Die While Having a Baby. How Can We Stop This? We spoke with Dr. Uche Ralph-Opara about how we make sure all mothers in Nigeria get health care. Why Global Citizens Should Care Lack of access to health care is the leading cause of maternal death in Africa. The United Nations’ Global Goal 3 calls for good health and well-being for all people. These goals cannot be achieved if expectant mothers in Africa ...

Nigeria needs N1.08trn to fix primary healthcare centres Nigeria needs N1.08trn to fix primary healthcare centres • Nigerian Doctors still perform surgery with candle, torchlight ― Archibong Share The Federal Government disclosed that it would require a whooping sum of N1.08 trillion ($2.83 billion) funding over the next 10 years to fix the primary healthcare system across the country. This was disclosed at the three-day retreat for National Assembly members on amendments of National Healt...

By Philip Jakpor Nigeria’s 2021 national budget has not disappointed pessimists. Like previous years public health was relegated to the back seat in terms of priority and funding. The breakdown of the approved budget shows that the health sector received only N547 billion(five hundred and forty-seven billion naira), representing about seven per cent of the budget’s total of N13.58 trillion. This meager allocation falls far short of the 15 per cent recommendedby African governments in the Ab...