Politics

Nigeria’s health partnership with the US: National sovereignty and domestic financing, By Muhammad Ali Pate

For more than two decades, Nigeria and the United States have worked together on major public-health challenges. Through the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the President’s Malaria Initiative, polio eradication, laboratory development, disease surveillance, health security and contributions through the Global Fund and Gavi, that partnership has saved lives and strengthened institutions on which millions of Nigerians depend.