1321 Results Found
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act,
Ministry of Health, Nigeria
This is an Act to establish the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency to enforce laws against the cultivation, processing, sale, trafficking and use of hard drugs and to empower the Agency to investigate persons suspected to have dealings in drugs and other related matters.
Nigeria • 1989 • Health
National Eye Centre Act, 1979
Ministry of Health, Nigeria
This is an Act for the creation of the National Eye Centre at Kaduna for the prevention and cure of eye defects and diseases and to establish a Board including the function and composition for the governance of the centre and other connected matters.
Nigeria • 1979 • Health
Nigeria Family Planning Blueprint 2020-2024
Ministry of Health, Nigeria
This policy by the Nigerian Government is based on an overall strategy by the Nigerian Government to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality rate in Nigeria to achieve a modern contraceptive prevalence rate of 27 per cent. The blueprint provides policy guidance on service delivery, supplies management, behavioural change, regulations and financing.
Nigeria • 2020 • Health
Family Planning On-The-Job Training Manual
Ministry of Health, Nigeria
This policy highlights the strategy adopted by the Federal Ministry of Health and stakeholders in training Family Planning (FP) workforce especially service providers, in On-the-Job Training (OJT). The policy is to enable health service providers to learn at the service delivery point, ensuring knowledge, skills and attitude transfer to deliver quality healthcare services. The policy is also to reduce the cost of capacity building while ensuring less disruption of service delivery processes.
Nigeria • 2019 • Health
National Guideline for the Introduction and Scale-Up of DMPA-SC Self-Injection
Ministry of Health, Nigeria
This National Guideline by the Ministry of Health is aimed at ensuring quality and cost-effectiveness of health service delivery in Nigeria for effective and efficient family planning method mix across the country.
Nigeria • 2019 • Health
National Family Planning/ Reproductive Health Service Protocols
Ministry of Health, Nigeria
This guidance by the Ministry of Health is to ensure the delivery of quality reproductive health services in Nigeria in line with 2008 WHO Medical Eligibility Criteria (MEC). The goal of the guidance is to improve the technical competence and confidence of service providers and to increase the quality and access to family planning services for all Nigerians.
Nigeria • 2010 • Health
Pharmacist Act
Ministry of Health, Nigeria
This Act makes provision for the regulation of pharmaceutical chemists.
Nigeria • 1965 • Health
National Policy on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Persons with Disabilities with emphasis on Women and Girls
Ministry of Health, Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Nigeria
This strategic policy document is designed to provide a policy direction to Government, civil society organizations, development partners, media practitioners and the organized private sector, on how to deal with reproductive health concerns of Women and Girls with Disabilities (WGWD).
Nigeria • 2018 • Health
National Health Products Supply Chain Strategy and Implementation Plan 2021-2025
Ministry of Health, Nigeria
This plan made legal and regulatory provisions that define the procedures, regulations, guidelines and codes of conduct relating to the procurement, storage, distribution and use of medicines and other healthcare products/laboratory commodities in Nigeria.
Nigeria • 2021 • Health
National Health Policy 2016
Ministry of Health, Nigeria
The overall goal of this health policy is to strengthen Nigeria’s Health System, particularly the primary health care sub-system, to deliver quality effective, efficient, equitable, accessible, affordable, acceptable and comprehensive health care services to
all Nigerians.
Nigeria • 2016 • Health
National Policy and Plan of Action for the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation in Nigeria
Ministry of Health, Nigeria
Female Genital Mutilation is a serious human rights violation of women and girls that has grave health consequences. It violates articles 3 and 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Therefore, this revised FGM policy is designed to eliminate the practice of female genital mutilation in Nigeria in order to improve the health and quality of girls and women.
Nigeria • 2013 • Health
National Strategy for Scale-Up of Chlorhexidine in Nigeria
Ministry of Health, Nigeria
The purpose of this National Chlorhexidine scale-up strategy document is to accelerate access and use of chlorhexidine in Nigeria. The specific scale-up strategies are under five domains: market & user; manufacturing & distribution; clinical & regulatory; policy, advocacy, & financing; and coordination strategies.
Nigeria • 2016 • Health
National Health Promotion Policy (Revised 2019)
Ministry of Health, Nigeria
The National Health Policy (NHP) 2016 recognizes that Nigeria is saddled with an unbearable burden of Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). The policy is meant to empower the Nigerian populace to take timely actions in disease prevention, improving their health and wellbeing as well as taking measures that ensure a healthy society.
Nigeria • 2019 • Health
NIGERIA EVERY NEWBORN ACTION PLAN: A Plan To End Preventable Newborn Deaths in Nigeria (Launch Version)
Ministry of Health, Nigeria
The action plan is a concerted effort towards translating Nigeria’s commitments into meaningful change for new-borns. The aim is that this document will serve as a framework for each of Nigeria’s 36 states and Federal Capital Territory – in collaboration with many stakeholders and partners – to develop their action plans, adapting the NiENAP as needed to their unique contexts.
Nigeria • 2016 • Health
Newborn Health in the context of the Integrated Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Strategy (Revised 2nd edition, 2011)
Nigeria
This 2nd Edition of the situation analysis for Newborn Health in Nigeria provides a road map for all stakeholders delivering survival interventions for new-born health in the context of maternal and child health in Nigeria.
Nigeria • 2011 • Health
Nigeria National Standards & Minimum Service Package for Adolescent & Youth Friendly Health Services 2018
Ministry of Health, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Nigeria
This document specifies the standard of health services to be provided by Health Service Delivery Points (HSDPs) to young people in Nigeria to improve their access to quality services.
Nigeria • 2018 • Health
Knowledge Management Guideline for Health Promotion 2020-2024
Ministry of Health, Nigeria
This guideline defines the six core elements of knowledge management, namely: capture/acquisition, generation/creation, synthesis, storage, archiving, retrieval and sharing.
Nigeria • 2020 • Health
National Policy on the Health & Development of Adolescents & Young People in Nigeria (First Revision)
Ministry of Health, Nigeria
This policy provides, broadly, a framework for generating required political will, mobilizing resources, creating a safe and supportive environment, fostering collaborations, and developing programmes to ensure the optimal health and development of adolescents and other young people in Nigeria.
Nigeria • 2017 • Health
Media Engagement Strategy for Health Promotion in Nigeria
Ministry of Health, Nigeria
This strategy sets out mechanisms, arrangements and pathways to guide collaboration between the Health Promotion Division of Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health and the media sector. It prescribes the ways to harness available tools for publicity, information sharing and public engagement to fulfil the mission of the National Strategic Plan for Health Promotion (2020-2024), which is to empower Nigerians to make informed choices for healthier living.
Nigeria • 2020 • Health
Nigeria COVID-19 Preparedness and Response Project Additional Financing (P177076): Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP)
Ministry of Health, Ministry of Environment, Nigeria
This Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP) sets out material measures and actions to be carried out by the recipient (Federal Republic of Nigeria), including institutional, staffing, training, monitoring and reporting arrangements, grievance management and the environmental and social assessments and instruments to be prepared or updated, disclosed, consulted, adopted and implemented under the ESCP and the Environmental and Social Standards (ESSs).
Nigeria • 2021 • Health