Nigeria is experiencing rapid urbanisation, and its urban population has surpassed 50%, overtaking the rural population. However, more than half of urban residents live in urban slums, where living conditions are very poor and access to essential life-saving services is…
Strengthening regulatory mechanisms in the health sector is crucial for delivering high-quality healthcare under the Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative (HSRII), a key component of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda. However, healthcare services in Nigerian urban slums are often…
In urban slums across Nigeria, formal healthcare providers like the primary health facilities are characterised by poor patronage, often due to factors of high cost and inefficient service delivery. This has led to high patronage of patent medicine vendors (PMVs)…
“Once it is dark, we rush home […] no power supply and no streetlights […] even if you are sick, you wait till it is daybreak, than to lose your life from attacks when it is dark. Also, when there…
Following a two-year study on healthcare/health rights for school-aged children (5 to 17 years) and school health services in urban settlements in Nigeria, significant concerns have been raised regarding the health and safety of school children. The study was…
The African Health Economics and Policy Association (AfHEA) is back with an all-in-person scientific conference between March 10 and 14, 2025 at the Kigali Convention Centre in Rwanda. Since 2009, AfHEA has continued to host this major and largest conference…
More than half of Nigeria’s over 200 million population are under the age of 18, and just about 29 percent of the over 100 million Nigerian children are under 5 years. Children between the ages of 5 and 17 comprise…
Fifty-three percent of Nigerians who live in urban areas reside in slums. This means that over half of Nigeria’s urban population are slum dwellers, and there are projections that this will increase further, as it has, since 2014. The big…
Nigerian “ghettos” deserve quality health services Popularly referred to as “ghettos”, slums have remained in Nigeria, inhabited by those who may not afford to live in well-off urban locations. About 50% of Nigeria’s population live in slums, and there are…
By The Health Policy Research Group, University of Nigeria Researchers serially complain of the lack of spread of the wonderful and interesting scientific evidence they generate. Why this is so, is because researchers use a lot of technical languages…
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