Canada Earmarks $3.5 Billion to Tackle Health Challenges of Nigerian Women, Children
The Canadian government has earmarked $3.5 billion to advance the health of women and children in Nigeria, Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Christopher Thorney has said. Mr Thorney made this known during the Multi-Country Dissemination of the Rapid Access Expansion (RAcE) Project on Integrated Community Case Management of Childhood Illnesses (iCCM) in Abuja on Tuesday. He said that Canada has a long-standing history of working to advance the health of women and children in Nigeria, including polio eradication efforts and other health initiatives. He noted that Canada’s latest initiative will span a 2015-2020 template and targets related programs during the five years. Mr Thorney, who commended the remarkable progress made so far in reducing child mortality, said that significant work remains to be done. “Troubling statistics are there, in 2016, about 5.6 million children under the age of five died worldwide; to make that more understandable, that is about 15,000…
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