Nigeria’s $18B healthcare landscape: Partnering for sustainable health financing.
With its growing population and substantial healthcare market, Nigeria's health sector aims to tackle health systems challenges through strategic partnerships for sustainable health financing. One such collaboration is with the Netherlands, which shows progress...
African countries are making the transition from donor-funded HIV programmes to government-led initiatives
African countries are witnessing a transition from donor funding to domestic resource mobilization for their response to HIV. This article summarizes various studies on the public financing of HIV programmes in many African countries to explain the shift from...
President Buhari says that 83 million poor Nigerians will benefit from the new health insurance scheme
President Muhammadu Buhari announced that, as recommended by the Lancet Nigeria Commission, a fund will be set up to ensure coverage of 83 million poor Nigerians (who cannot afford to pay premiums) in the new National Health Insurance Scheme . A statement issued by...
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the 2022 National Health Insurance bill into law
The Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, 19th May, 2022 announced that he signed into law the 2022 National Health Insurance bill. The President made the following remarks, As part of our healthcare reforms, I have signed into law the recently passed 2022...
Nigeria gets over three million doses of COVID-19 vaccine
In April, 2022 the Nigeria government received 3,002,400 doses of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID-19 vaccines. Speaking at the handover ceremony in Abuja, the executive director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Faisal Shuaib, said the...
The state of Lagos, Nigeria, approves 14.4 USD as COVID-19 vaccine cost at the private health facilities.
In October, 2021 the Lagos state government approved the sum of N6000 (14.4 USD) for the administration of vaccines against coronavirus infection at private health facilities in the state. Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu said that the money would allow the private...
New documents on national health insurance scheme (NHIS) available on Nigeria country page
Three new documents on NHIS have recently been uploaded to the documents section of the Nigeria country page. One peer reviewed article examining the purchaser-provider relationship within a conical health insurance scheme which was published in 2018. The other looks...
Many Nigerians yet to benefit from health care provision fund
In 2014, the government of Nigeria implemented the basic health care provision fund (BHCPF) with the aim of providing adequate care and services at the primary health care (PHC) level, mostly for the vulnerable population, so as to reduce out-of-pocket expenses....
New document on health financing has been posted on Nigeria country page
The 2017 health financing policy and strategy has been recently uploaded to the documents section of the Nigeria country page. The strategy provides evidence-based guidance to the federal, state and local governments as well as other actors in Nigeria’s health system...
Nigeria gets a US$400 million loan for COVID-19 vaccines
On 2 October, 2021, the government of Nigeria received approval from the World Bank for $400m credit in additional financing from the International Development Association (IDA) to provide upfront financing for safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine acquisition and...
Nigeria: National health insurance scheme (NHIS) plans expanded coverage of Nigerians by 2030
In order to expand coverage of the vulnerable and non-vulnerable population in the informal sector as well as formal sector by 2030, the NHIS is set to deploy technology to drive key initiatives, aimed at ensuring a systematic expanded coverage. General Manager, NHIS...
Nigeria receives four million COVID-19 vaccine doses
In March, Nigeria received about 4 million doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine, shipped via the COVAX Facility, a partnership between CEPI, Gavi, UNICEF and WHO. The arrival of the vaccines marked a historic step towards the goal to ensure equitable distribution...
Nigeria records another milestone, launches second phase of COVID-19 vaccination
On August 16, 2021, Nigeria launched the second phase of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign; a continuous effort towards curbing the spread of the disease in the country. At a symbolic event to mark the second phase at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) in Abuja,...
Nigeria rolls out 10-year universal health coverage (UHC) plan
In 2020, the Nigerian government started rolling out innovative strategies to optimise services at primary healthcare centres (PHCs) across the country as part of the response to the coronavirus pandemic and possible situations of public emergency. The strategies are...
What Nigeria must do to achieve universal health coverage (UHC)
At a stakeholders meeting to deliberate on ways to strengthen community systems towards achieving UHC, the consensus was that Nigeria must improve on its health sector financing if the country is to meet the UHC target by 2030. The president of the Nigerian medical...