Our over 7-year old health anticorruption research in 🇳🇬 has given birth to a Coalition.

HPRG Dina Balabanova FCDO Research Aloysius Odii 🌍 The ICIR Voice of Nigeria Muktar A. Gadanya, MFR Eleanor Hutchinson Martin McKee 🇺🇦 Felix Abrahams Obi 🇳🇬🇧🇷 Runcie C.W. Chidebe SOAS ACE NPHCDA
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2 years ago, HPRG held a policy forum on health sector corruption. All agreed, an ounce of health corruption takes someone closer to death. Today, a small effective team will be bold with policy priorities/strategies for 🇳🇬 health anticorruption.

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We're examining the different forms of #corruption that are prevalent at primary health centers #PHCs in Nigeria ; absenteeism, corrupt procurements, informal payments...
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SOAS ACE The Global Fund NPHCDA Dr. Muyi Aina Muhammad Ali Pate Federal Ministry of Health, NIGERIA PHCPI - Stronger With PHC (Archive)

Corruption & poor accountability in health sector significantly diminishes health investments. For 7 years, we have explored this subject, confident in the evidence we have. With our Advisory Group in Abuja, we plan actions for quick/long wins. Tough but possible! Federal Ministry of Health, NIGERIA

Informal & 'under the table payments' are prevalent in most #PHCs and 've a negative impact on service delivery & achievement of #UHC in #Nigeria HPRG SOAS ACE Dina Balabanova Obinna Onwujekwe Prince Agwu ICPC Nigeria EFCC Nigeria The Lancet Global Health Joint Learning Network NPHCDA Dr. Muyi Aina

Prof Dina Balabanova from London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine reaffirmed how 'small forms of #corruption ' at #PHCS can lead to poor health outcomes. Inadequate resourcing of #PHCs is a major driver of corruption practices Prince Agwu NPHCDA Federal Ministry of Health, NIGERIA SOAS ACE

As we discuss accountability worries and health sector corruption today, we are pushed to ask again, if $US1 billion is spent on health in Nigeria, are we sure of getting equal amount in health value?

A previous article of ours provides some digest icirnigeria.org/nature-of-corr…

In six messages, we show ‘why’ and ‘how’ every penny for health means so much and must return equal amount in health value.

We invite Prof Muhammad Ali Pate & The Global Fund to an energiser!

HPRG Not_that_PeterEvans Dina Balabanova The ICIR SOAS ACE

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A short-staffed primary healthcare is now reliant on volunteer labour for survival. Big problem when volunteers don’t feel belong in the system & cannot see themselves progressing in their careers. They need money, so they take many falls!
Aloysius Odii 🌍

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My January column with Business AM seeks a path of social purpose for primary health in Nigeria. It states how social purpose cancels ‘tragedy of commons’, where public-serving institutions retrogress for lack of elites’ interest.

Federal Ministry of Health, NIGERIA NPHCDA
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Extremely impressive and novel body of work on a range of constraints & solutions in the Nigerian health system by HotelsParisRiveGauch at University of Nigeria. We, at Health Systems LSHTM are proud to be partners and friends, we look forward to continue in 2024! Martin McKee 🇺🇦 Muhammad Ali Pate Tolib Mirzoev

As curtains close for 2023, HPRG provides a briefing of a range of scientific evidence for policy actions/enhanced practice in health. We look forward to more in 2024!
Muhammad Ali Pate NPHCDA FCDO Research Dr. Muyi Aina Dr. Tunji Alausa Dina Balabanova
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New article alert from HPRG!!
Context-appropriate interventions are required in ASRH. This paper examines acceptability of a community-embedded intervention for ASRH. M-G Ingabire
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With PHCs in Nigeria we can do more for health. HPRG shows how, by implementing a project, where PHCs are home to adolescents in need of sexual & reproductive health (SRH) services! Safe spaces for SRH is key!
Muhammad Ali Pate IDRC | CRDI Dr. Muyi Aina UNICEF Chinyere Mbachu

Urban health conversations are a must to have, as urbanisation sweeps global south. HPRG in CHORUSUrbanHealth project is pursuing an intervention, improving health in slums through linking informal health providers to the formal and supporting multisectoral health approach.

📢 New research alert!
Informal payments persist for supposedly free Maternal and Child Health services in Nigeria, widening access gaps. Dive into the reasons behind this issue and its impact on equity.
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4. There is a need to address IPs in order to improve equity of access, but this requires understanding their patterns and addressing multiple institutional and health workers-related drivers.

#HSPR #HPP

Are informal payments just a small payment or a burden to low income service users in Nigeria. Find out why they are so prevalence and its drivers from reading doi.org/10.1093/heapol…
Federal Ministry of Health, NIGERIA HPRG Dina Balabanova Martin McKee 🇺🇦 Eleanor Hutchinson Prince Agwu Health Systems Global

At the NHIA Nigeria. leadership course, we dedicated a full module to corruption/accountability issues in health financing. We identified corruption concerns in revenue raising, pooling, purchasing, and benefit design, and designed vertical/horizontal accountability actions for remedy.

At the NHIA Nigeria. leadership course, Prof Benjamin Uzochukwu led participants to of their accord describe the Nigerian health system. Interestingly, we could see multisectoral insights, as well as the belief that defects should be included as part of the overall health system. Thoughts??