Advocates optimistic Buhari will redeem inherited health pledges

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Health advocates are looking to the Buhari administration to fulfil Nigeria’s health pledges the same way it is tackling problems of insecurity inherited from previous administrations.
Top on the list is Nigeria’s pledge to commit 15% of its annual budget to health—a pledge it took alongside other african countries 14 years ago at the Abuja Declaration of 2001.
Advocates complain Nigeria is yet to redeem that pledge—meant to improve health sector—and health spending as a percentage of national budget has fallen continuously.
Speaking at an advocacy workshop Monday, the National Coordinator of Civil Society for Family Planning in Nigeria (CiSFP), Wale Adeleye said, “We now have a new government that is committed and talking about change.”
“We now feel that if we approach this government with information about these commitment, we can really get the change that we are clamouring for.”
Among unredeemed pledges are the Maputo Plan of Action to ensure universal access to reproductive health, the UN Every Woman Every Child- a commitment to save lives of women and children by 2015, the London Family Planning Summit—to mobilise contraceptive information, services and supplies and others.
Last year, health spending dropped to 6.3% of national budget, down from 8.2% in 2013.
“The president himself is a father and has a wife and children and I know that if he understands what the commitment are all about, I don’t see him declining to support these commitments,” said Adeleye.

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