Former Minister of Health and Nigeria’s Ambassador-designate to Canada, Prof. Isaac Adewole, on Tuesday warned that recent cuts in foreign development assistance could undermine decades of progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other public health challenges unless Nigeria and other developing countries significantly increase domestic investment in healthcare.
Adewole gave the warning at the 25th anniversary celebration and public health symposium of APIN Public Health Initiatives in Abuja, where stakeholders reflected on 25 years of public health interventions and discussed strategies for sustaining gains amid a rapidly changing global funding landscape.
Speaking on the theme of sustaining health gains amid global uncertainty: evidence-based pathways to future impact, the former minister said the world had recorded remarkable progress over the past three decades in reducing child mortality, maternal deaths and infectious diseases, but warned that those achievements could be reversed if countries fail to strengthen their health systems
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