Nigeria

Many countries struggle to provide high-quality primary health care and achieve universal health coverage because of a shortage of trained clinicians. Consequently, citizens experience a variable standard of care depending on the level of training and experience of the health care workers in their community. Appropriate and user-friendly tools are needed that can provide on-demand, expert-level information and support to frontline health care workers to standardize care and treat more patients effectively.Can artificial intelligence-assisted tools support better primary health care delivery? Artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools are increasingly being used to assist health care workers with diagnosis and treatment. These include large language model (LLM)-enabled tools that can provide expert-level medical knowledge and advice in response to health care workers’ queries. Because LLMs have the ability to be trained to think like a local medical expert, continuously learn, and provide responses to a wide range of queries, this technology is seen to have the potential to enhance clinical decision support systems (CDSSs) and improve the quality of primary health care.

Self-Injection Ambassadors reflect on their advocacy for expanded access to contraceptive self-injection.

Agbons Oaiya has seen many health information systems fail to reach their promise. Today, he is using his experience to ensure Nigeria's health information systems are integrated, scalable, sustainable, and backed by effective policies and leadership.

Nanopore–based sequencing platforms offer the potential for affordable malaria molecular surveillance in resource–limited settings to track and ultimately counteract emerging threats, such as drug resistance and diagnostic escape.With support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and building on the success of NOMADS, NOMADS 2 is continuing to strengthen and expand the use of nanopore sequencing for malaria genomic surveillance.This factsheet provides an overview of the NOMADS 2 project.

This report present’s PATH’s Living Labs synthesis of insights including gaps, trends, findings, and recommendations for primary healthcare in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zambia conducted between January and March 2023.

This report—the final report of the New Nets Project—presents the primary results of the New Nets Project pilot evaluations across 16 districts in Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Rwanda. Emphasis is on the epidemiological impact outcomes, along with important contextual outcomes related to entomology, insecticide-treated net durability, and human behavior.

Policies that build strong primary health care systems are essential to advancing health equity— but they are complex and difficult to design. PATH created the PHC in Policies Tracker as a consolidated source of information to equip stakeholders including policymakers, advocates, implementers, and donors with information about existing policies that shape PHC systems. This new virtual public dashboard tool maps and analyzes data about national-level health policy documents relevant to primary health care (PHC) in 26 low- and middle- income countries—comparing content of these policies with recommendations laid out in key global-level guidance frameworks such as the WHO PHC Monitoring Framework and Indicators (MFI). The tracker aims to improve understanding of policies for PHC in LMICs, add to the global conversation about how to design robust policy for PHC, and help users identify high-impact opportunities for action toward better health for all. This brief provides an overview of the findings and key takeaways from the tracker project, as well as information about methodology and limitations. Access the tracker at bit.ly/PHC_policy_tracker

PATH’s Asset Tracker project provides information on the status of scale-up of key evidence-based interventions that improve maternal, newborn, and child health, and nutrition (MNCHN) outcomes, and save lives. The MNCHN Asset Tracker dashboards allow users to quickly and efficiently compare different indicators across or within countries. This guide is a how-to for reading, packaging, and presenting data from PATH’s MNCHN Asset Tracker to inform advocacy efforts.

In 2021, PATH undertook a subnational assessment in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, and Nigeria on barriers and enablers to uptake and implementation of essential maternal, newborn, and child health and nutrition medicines, devices, and interventions—what we call “assets.” We conducted facility spot-checks of asset availability and interviewed healthcare providers and district health management teams on challenges and successes in the journey to scale for each of the 14 assets. The Insights Briefs summarize the findings for each focus country.

The New Nets Project was established with the goal of making the latest resistance breaking net technology more widely available to malaria programs throughout Africa. As well as managing the rapid deployment of new nets to partner countries and negotiating a volume guarantee to reduce prices, the New Nets Project partners oversee randomized control trials and pilots. The evidence gathered from these will be used to ascertain the impact and cost-effectiveness of the nets and support an appropriate policy recommendation from the World Health Organization. The New Nets Project is co-funded by Unitaid and The Global Fund, with complementary funding provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and USAID. The project is led by IVCC. This slide deck shares interim findings across the epidemiology, entomology, human behavior, and durability monitoring components of the five observational studies led by PATH.