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 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 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

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