{"id":213692,"date":"2025-11-15T13:39:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerias-health-financing-still-far-below-target-despite-progress-minister\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T13:39:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:39:35","slug":"nigerias-health-financing-still-far-below-target-despite-progress-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerias-health-financing-still-far-below-target-despite-progress-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Health Financing Still Far Below Target Despite Progress &#8211; Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The Minister also called for increased investment, transparency, and collaboration to strengthen system resilience<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Iziaq Salako, has acknowledged that Nigeria&#8217;s health financing remains critically low despite recent reforms aimed at building a resilient and inclusive health system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Mr Salako, who spoke on Thursday in Abuja at the Day 2 of the 2025 Joint Annual Review of the Health Sector, said that while progress has been made in several areas,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511140735.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister also called for increased investment, transparency, and collaboration to strengthen system resilience The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Iziaq Salako, has acknowledged that Nigeria&#8217;s health financing remains critically low despite recent reforms aimed at building a resilient and inclusive health system. Mr Salako, who spoke on Thursday in Abuja at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":213693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,12412,5731,5941,257,393,5761,943,254,7594],"class_list":["post-213692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-financing","tag-health","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-progress","tag-south-africa-today","tag-target"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}