{"id":5823,"date":"2023-02-06T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nigeriauhcforum.org\/?p=5823"},"modified":"2024-10-30T08:27:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T08:27:29","slug":"uhc-2023-forum-engaged-3-governors-in-chatham-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nigeriauhcforum.org\/index.php\/2023\/02\/06\/uhc-2023-forum-engaged-3-governors-in-chatham-house\/","title":{"rendered":"UHC 2023 Forum Engaged 3 Governors in Chatham House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In furtherance of the objective of putting Universal Health Coverage (UHC) on the political front burner ahead of the forthcoming 2023 general elections, the UHC 2023 Forum in collaboration with the Chatham House Centre for Universal Health hosted three Nigerian Governors and other health experts in Chatham House on the 23<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0of September 2022 to discuss key challenges in Nigeria\u2019s health system, and identify options for global collaborative efforts and opportunities to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The high-level event tagged \u201cAccelerating UHC in Nigeria: Optimizing Institutional Opportunities and Partnerships\u201d featured His Excellency Babajide Sanwo-Olu (Lagos State); His Excellency Governor Inuwa Yahaya (Gombe State); and His Excellency Engr. Abdullahi Sule (Nasarawa State). Other speakers at the event include the Prof Nasir M Sambo (Director General the of National Health Insurance Authority), Prof. Aliko Ahmed (Associate Fellow, Chatham House Centre for Global Health), Prof. Kara Hanson (Health System Economist, London School of Tropical Medicine), and Dr Gafar Alawode (Co-convener, UHC 2023 Forum).<\/p>\n<p>The event highlighted the Governors\u2019 policy reform efforts towards the attainment of UHC over the last three years and how to address the current policy and implementation challenges hindering the attainment of UHC, especially for expanding health coverage to the poor and vulnerable population. The highpoint of the event was the commitment by the Governors to increase public funding to the health sector for the expansion of quality health care to the poor and vulnerable population.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cDevelopment Governance International (DGI) Consult<\/em><\/strong><em>\u00a0is a founding member of\u00a0<strong>the UHC 2023 Forum<\/strong>\u00a0which is a coalition of a wide array of stakeholders\u00a0working towards raising the political prioritization of health in Nigeria ahead of the 2023 general elections\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In furtherance of the objective of putting Universal Health Coverage (UHC) on the political front burner ahead of the forthcoming 2023 general elections, the UHC 2023 Forum in collaboration with the Chatham House Centre for Universal Health hosted three Nigerian Governors and other health experts in Chatham House on the 23rd\u00a0of September 2022 to discuss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigeriauhcforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigeriauhcforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigeriauhcforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigeriauhcforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigeriauhcforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigeriauhcforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigeriauhcforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nigeriauhcforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigeriauhcforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nigeriauhcforum.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}