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15% Benchmark To Health Sector In Nigeria – The Journey so Far

SOGON-PAS Supports Meeting To Review Sexual And Reproductive Health And Rights In Nigeria

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FP Funding: WIM-PAS, FPTWG, Worry Over Dyring Of Funds In Kano State

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CKD: CCRHS-PAS To Build Capacities Of Health Workers On Who Treatment Guidelines In Niger State

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20th Anniversary Of The Abuja Declaration (2001-2021) Assessing Nigeria’s Two-decades Spending On The Health Sector Why Poor Allocation, Releases & Utilization Persist?

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PAS subs support zonal meetings, produce scorecard to track implementation in Kano, Lagos States

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PAS subs in Kano, Niger, and Kaduna states begin the process for the development of scorecards While Lagos found disruption of FP due to COVID-19, End SARS protest

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Capacity Building: MWAN-PAS trains Kano Emirate Health C’tte on Advocacy, resource mobilization

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World Health Day: Women in PAS wants inclusion in health program design and implementation

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FP funding gaps: Learn from other African countries, PAS groups tell national, sub-national governments

To address such issues a key stakeholder in the Family Planning space, Nigeria Medical Women convened a panel discussion to discuss the FP funding gap.

The Federal Government is Committed to Funding FP- Finance Minister

From the 2017 and 2021 national budget, N6.8 billion has been allocated to family planning, out of which N3.6 billion was released. What was observed was that not all funds allocated were released especially in 2017 and 2018 where 93% and 33% of the fund allocated were released respectively. Also, the N809 million allocated in 2021 fiscal year has not been released. Recall that the N900 million funding gap for 2019 was proposed to be released from the Service Wide Vote (SWV)

IWD: Women in PAS worry over the impact of COVID-19 on essential health services

PAS coalition then raised concern over poor reproductive health funding which they said has led to failure of the nation to record any meaningful change in family and child health due not only to poor funding but poor releases of the meagre funding allocated.