Chairman of the House Committee on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Leprosy, and Malaria Control, Rt. Hon. Amobi Godwin Ogah, has assured that the parliament will take decisive legislative actions to combat tuberculosis (TB), including pushing for increased funding and enacting laws to protect patients’ rights,
Speaking at the Re-Launch of the Nigeria Parliamentary TB Caucus in Abuja, Ogah emphasized that lawmakers must leverage their positions to strengthen Nigeria’s TB response.
He promised to mobilize parliamentarians to sign up for the caucus and champion policies that will enhance TB detection, treatment, and prevention.
Ogah highlighted that nearly 70% of Global Fund-supported countries are facing budget shortfalls for TB response, with 10 nations alone facing a $600 million deficit in 2025.
Nigeria, he warned, must increase domestic resource mobilization, particularly since most African countries, including Nigeria, have yet to meet the Abuja Declaration target of allocating 15% of their national budgets to health.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Abbas Tajudeen pledged that the House of Representatives will take bold legislative action and increase funding to combat tuberculosis (TB), a disease that continues to pose a major public health threat in the country.
Abbas who was represented at the event by Hon. Ibrahim Halims described TB as a longstanding but often overlooked health crisis, stressing that urgent interventions are needed to curb its devastating impact.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Nigeria remains the seventh-highest TB-burdened country globally and second in Africa, with 361,000 new cases recorded in 2023—a 26% increase from the previous year.
Worse still, 9% of these cases involved children, while 63,000 people living with HIV were co-infected with TB.
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Chairman of the House Committee on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Leprosy, and Malaria Control, Rt. Hon. Amobi Godwin Ogah, has assured that the parliament will take decisive legislative actions to combat tuberculosis (TB), including pushing for increased funding and enacting laws to protect patients’ rights,
Speaking at the Re-Launch of the Nigeria Parliamentary TB Caucus in Abuja, Ogah emphasized that lawmakers must leverage their positions to strengthen Nigeria’s TB response.
He promised to mobilize parliamentarians to sign up for the caucus and champion policies that will enhance TB detection, treatment, and prevention.
Ogah highlighted that nearly 70% of Global Fund-supported countries are facing budget shortfalls for TB response, with 10 nations alone facing a $600 million deficit in 2025.
Nigeria, he warned, must increase domestic resource mobilization, particularly since most African countries, including Nigeria, have yet to meet the Abuja Declaration target of allocating 15% of their national budgets to health.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Abbas Tajudeen pledged that the House of Representatives will take bold legislative action and increase funding to combat tuberculosis (TB), a disease that continues to pose a major public health threat in the country.
Abbas who was represented at the event by Hon. Ibrahim Halims described TB as a longstanding but often overlooked health crisis, stressing that urgent interventions are needed to curb its devastating impact.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Nigeria remains the seventh-highest TB-burdened country globally and second in Africa, with 361,000 new cases recorded in 2023—a 26% increase from the previous year.
Worse still, 9% of these cases involved children, while 63,000 people living with HIV were co-infected with TB.
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Chairman of the House Committee on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Leprosy, and Malaria Control, Rt. Hon. Amobi Godwin Ogah, has assured that the parliament will take decisive legislative actions to combat tuberculosis (TB), including pushing for increased funding and enacting laws to protect patients’ rights,
Speaking at the Re-Launch of the Nigeria Parliamentary TB Caucus in Abuja, Ogah emphasized that lawmakers must leverage their positions to strengthen Nigeria’s TB response.
He promised to mobilize parliamentarians to sign up for the caucus and champion policies that will enhance TB detection, treatment, and prevention.
Ogah highlighted that nearly 70% of Global Fund-supported countries are facing budget shortfalls for TB response, with 10 nations alone facing a $600 million deficit in 2025.
Nigeria, he warned, must increase domestic resource mobilization, particularly since most African countries, including Nigeria, have yet to meet the Abuja Declaration target of allocating 15% of their national budgets to health.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Abbas Tajudeen pledged that the House of Representatives will take bold legislative action and increase funding to combat tuberculosis (TB), a disease that continues to pose a major public health threat in the country.
Abbas who was represented at the event by Hon. Ibrahim Halims described TB as a longstanding but often overlooked health crisis, stressing that urgent interventions are needed to curb its devastating impact.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Nigeria remains the seventh-highest TB-burdened country globally and second in Africa, with 361,000 new cases recorded in 2023—a 26% increase from the previous year.
Worse still, 9% of these cases involved children, while 63,000 people living with HIV were co-infected with TB.
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Chairman of the House Committee on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Leprosy, and Malaria Control, Rt. Hon. Amobi Godwin Ogah, has assured that the parliament will take decisive legislative actions to combat tuberculosis (TB), including pushing for increased funding and enacting laws to protect patients’ rights,
Speaking at the Re-Launch of the Nigeria Parliamentary TB Caucus in Abuja, Ogah emphasized that lawmakers must leverage their positions to strengthen Nigeria’s TB response.
He promised to mobilize parliamentarians to sign up for the caucus and champion policies that will enhance TB detection, treatment, and prevention.
Ogah highlighted that nearly 70% of Global Fund-supported countries are facing budget shortfalls for TB response, with 10 nations alone facing a $600 million deficit in 2025.
Nigeria, he warned, must increase domestic resource mobilization, particularly since most African countries, including Nigeria, have yet to meet the Abuja Declaration target of allocating 15% of their national budgets to health.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Abbas Tajudeen pledged that the House of Representatives will take bold legislative action and increase funding to combat tuberculosis (TB), a disease that continues to pose a major public health threat in the country.
Abbas who was represented at the event by Hon. Ibrahim Halims described TB as a longstanding but often overlooked health crisis, stressing that urgent interventions are needed to curb its devastating impact.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Nigeria remains the seventh-highest TB-burdened country globally and second in Africa, with 361,000 new cases recorded in 2023—a 26% increase from the previous year.
Worse still, 9% of these cases involved children, while 63,000 people living with HIV were co-infected with TB.