Nigeria News » Sokoto News Nigeria » Sokoto » Health: Special Report - Inside Sokoto's Fight Against Polio Vaccine Hesitancy
Volunteer Community Mobilisers (VCMs), traditional rulers, and other volunteers have formed a line of defence in communities, helping track and identify unvaccinated children and report suspected ...
News Nigeria » Sokoto » Health: Sokoto leads health reform, partners UNFPA for coverage
SOKOTO — The Sokoto State Government has convened its 8th State Council on Health Meeting, positioning itself at the forefront of efforts to accelerate Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Nigeria. The ...
News Nigeria » Sokoto » Health: Nigeria: African Development Bank Approves $46 Million to Transform Healthcare in Sokoto State
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (www.AfDB.org) has approved a $46 million loan to finance the Sokoto State Health Infrastructure Project, a transformative initiative ...
News Nigeria » Sokoto » Health: Nigeria: Sokoto, Unicef Forge Strategic Front Against Child Malnutrition
The Sokoto State Ministry of Health and the Sokoto State Primary Healthcare Development Agency, in collaboration with UNICEF Sokoto Field Office, have officially handed over critical nutrition ...
News Nigeria » Sokoto » Health: Nigeria’s second-chance schools: women balancing study and survival
Women in northern Nigeria return to school after years out, but must balance childcare, duties and costs.
News Nigeria » Sokoto » Health: Sokoto assembly summons health commissioner over missing hospital equipment
Sokoto State House of Assembly on Tuesday summoned the State Commissioner of Health, Hajiya Asabe Balarabe, to appear before its Committee, due to non-compliance with its previous invitations. Alhaji ...
News Nigeria » Sokoto » Health: Sokoto’s prowling partnerships in confronting malnutrition, child healthcare
By Ibrahim HassanBefore the coming of Governor Ahmed Aliyu, Sokoto State faced some of the most serious public health challenges in Northern Nigeria, particularly in the areas of child malnutrition, ...
News Nigeria » Sokoto » Health: Universal health coverage: Sokoto’s unflattering example
Many countries have identified Universal Health Coverage (UHC) as the goal for their health systems, and health financing reforms are at the core of strategies to move in this direction. UHC itself ...
News Nigeria » Sokoto » Health: Sokoto governor approves posting of 98 midwives to health centres
He said that the midwives were those who recently graduated from the Sokoto State College of Nursing Sciences and Midwifery. Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has approved the deployment of 98 ...