Two Years After: Opportunities for Improving the Implementation of the NHIA Act
The NHIA Act of 2022 was passed at an opportune time to guide the provision and regulation of health insurance in the country
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APO Group - Africa Newsroom / Press release | Central African Republic: Red Cross project gives a boost to a weakened health system
Central African Republic: Red Cross project gives a boost to a weakened health system
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A retrospective review of vaccine wastage and associated risk factors in the Littoral region of Cameroon during 2016–2017 | BMC Public Health
Immunization is an effective preventive health intervention. In Cameroon, the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) aims to vaccinate children under 5 years of age for free, but vaccination coverage has consistently remained below the national target. Vaccines are distributed based on the target population size, factoring in wastage norms. However, the vaccine wastage rate (VWR) may differ among various settings. Our study aimed to assess vaccine wastage for different site settings, seasonality, and vaccine types in comparison to vaccination coverage in order to provide comprehensive insights...
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Groups identify Nigeria's major impediment to meeting family planning targets
5 min read Poor funding is the major reason Nigeria failed to meet the pledge it made in 2012 to achieve a modern contraceptive prevalence rate (MCPR) of 27 per cent among women by 202O, health experts have said. The family planning (FP) 2020 goal was to enable 120 million additional women and girls of reproductive age, globally, to have access to contraceptives by the year 2020. At the dawn of the deadline, the FP 2020 target indicators show that Nigeria has only 12 per cent MCPR for women in the country. FP advocates say the government continuously failed to meet its counter...
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