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Diarrhoea, pneumonia leading killer diseases among children in Lagos— PSN-PACFaH
Diarrhoea, pneumonia leading killer diseases among children in Lagos— PSN-PACFaH The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria under the Partnership for Advocacy in Child and Family Health (PACFaH) Project in Nigeria has called on the Federal Government to increase the Health sector…
Family planning gets a Budget Boost at the National Level
Historically in Nigeria, FP in Nigeria has been driven and funded totally by donors. In 2011, the government for the first time budgeted the equivalent of three million USD ($3million) annually for the period of 2011-2015 for the procurement of…
BREAKING: National Assembly Passes 2017 budget
The National Assembly has passed the 2017 Appropriations Bill, raising the budget from N7.28 billion earlier proposed by President Muhammadu Buhari in December last year, to N7.44 trillion. The Appropriations Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives separately…
National Assembly to increase Health budget to N1.1tr from N304bn
The budgetary allocation to the country’s health sector would be increased to 15 percent in line with the 2001 African Union Abuja declaration, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Senator Lanre Tejuosho (APC, Ogun) said on Wednesday. Addressing newsmen…
PACFAH Tasks Media to Actively Report Health Issues
The Partnership Advocacy for Child and Family Health, PACFaH, wants journalists in Nigeria to actively report issues surrounding the health budget and finance. Health Reform Foundation of Nigeria, HERFON, Programme Officer on PACFaH project, Ms. Aanu’ Rotimi, told members of the Health…
Media Centre Against Child Malnutrition (MeCAM) Nominates CS-SUNN Project Director, Mrs. Beatrice Eluaka as a Board of Trustees Member
It is with great delight that we announce the Nomination/Invitation of one of our partner CSO Project Director, Mrs. Beatrice Eluaka as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Media Centre Against Child Malnutrition (MeCAM) in Honorary Capacity.
Adoption of Amoxicillin DT as a first line treatment for childhood pneumonia and Zinc/ORS co pack as treatment for childhood diarrhoea
According to WHO, pneumonia and diarrhoea are the 2nd and 3rd leading causes of under 5 child deaths in the world, which accounts for about 40% of total child deaths in Nigeria. The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN)is the leading…
Implementation of the Nigeria Family Planning Blueprint (Scale-up Plan)
Family Planning has been proven and universally acknowledged as a method of preventing deaths from pregnancy and childbirth. By preventing pregnancies too early, too frequently, too many times and too early, family planning saves lives. But unfortunately, Nigeria has over…