This paper seeks to advance human rights scholarship by locating the right to health within the broader frameworks of socioeconomic development and political governance. It identifies two critical factors as fundamentally responsible for the dismal state of health and wellbeing of Africans...

The combined force of the National Health Act (NHA) 2014, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) Act 1999 and revised National Health Policy (NHP) 2004 is monumental in terms of fashioning new avenues for protecting the health and wellbeing of Nigerians. The legislative and policy frameworks...

The possibility of attaining the benchmarks specified under the health-related aspects of the Millennium Development Goal (health-MDGs) in Africa come 2015 ranges from slim to nil. Atrocious health indices in the vast majority of countries in the region provide the starkest proof. This paper...

That Nigeria recognizes primary health care (PHC) as holding the key that could crystallize into universal coverage for its population is not in dispute. The language of the National Health Policy, the most important document on health in the country, is quite explicit, that the nation’s...