Mutuelle de Santé: Rwanda’s Blueprint For Universal Health Coverage
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Aimable Twahirwa (Lead Writer) Daphrose Mukanyangezi, a farmer from Nyamasheke, a district in south-western Rwanda, used to live in constant fear of…
Breaking Barriers: Advancing UHC in Africa To Enable Equitable Healthcare Access
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Universal Health Coverage (UHC) has it foundation in the 1948 World Health Organisation (WHO) Constitution, which declares health as a fundamental human right and commits to ensuring the highest…
Destination, Universal Health Coverage for all Nigerians: Can a Sector-Wide Approach Get Us There?
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Chibuike Alagboso and Safiya Shuaibu Isa (Lead Writers) The repositioning of Nigeria’s health sector is benefiting from the highest levels of political…
Cultivating Political Will for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Nigeria
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Universal Health Coverage (UHC) is a health-systems performance outcome where people have access to quality health care where and when they need…
dRPC, NAMeD launch Media Challenge on PHC coverage
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The Nigerian Academy of Medicine (NAMeD) and the development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) announce a Media challenge for Journalists covering primary…
Accelerating the Implementation of the NHIA Act to Improve Health Insurance Coverage in Nigeria
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Ibukun Oguntola and Dabri Ohanu Olohije (Lead Writers) The enactment of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Act in May 2022 has…
Universal Health Care in Nigeria: Accelerating the NHIA Act's Implementation
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By Oluoma Omeje, Joy Uzoho, Patience Adejo and Abdulmajeed Abdulsalam (Lead Writers) In February 2023, the Director General of the National Health…
Assessing Service Readiness of Facilities under the Bauchi State Social Health Insurance Scheme
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By Joy Ikott (Lead Writer) State Health Insurance Schemes are a vehicle through which State governments seek to achieve Universal Health Coverage…
The Lagos State Ilera Eko Scheme: A Baseline Assessment to Strengthen Service Delivery in Health Facilities
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By Beti Baiye and Thelma Thomas Abeku (Lead Writers) From establishing the National Health Scheme Act to improving upon it with the…
Strengthening Health Security Cannot Be Achieved Without Universal Health Coverage and Effective Primary Health Care – Medical Experts Advocates
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…Multiple Stakeholders gathered to discuss Nigeria’s health security To strengthen health security and a decentralized health system in Nigeria with regards to…
From A Scheme to an Authority - 5 Things You Need to Know About the New NHIA Act
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By Dara Ajala-Damisa and Kemisola Agbaoye (Lead Writers) Last Thursday evening, some great news was delivered to health advocates and Nigerians at…
A Call to Invest in Nurses to Achieve Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria
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“I heard that Thursday was World Nurses’ Day, I wish I’d known about it earlier, I would have called Nurse Grace to…
Our Planet Our Health - Why Nigeria's UHC Champion Must Address Environmental Health
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By Dara Ajala-Damisa and Vivianne Ihekweazu (Lead Writers) Today, April 7, is World Health Day, an important day by any standard; one…
The Lancet Nigeria Commission Calls for a New Social Contract on Health
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Editor’s Note: On Wednesday March 16, the Lancet Nigeria Commission launched a landmark report studying health inequalities in Nigeria; calling for urgent…