{"id":220169,"date":"2026-01-12T11:01:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-group-launches-scholarship-for-30-female-medical-students-to-address-nigerias-gender-health-gap\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T11:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:01:26","slug":"nigeria-group-launches-scholarship-for-30-female-medical-students-to-address-nigerias-gender-health-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-group-launches-scholarship-for-30-female-medical-students-to-address-nigerias-gender-health-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Group Launches Scholarship for 30 Female Medical Students to Address Nigeria&#8217;s Gender Health Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The founder noted that the initiative was created in response to long-standing gaps in how women&#8217;s health needs are understood, researched and prioritised in policy and investment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Thirty female medical students from across Nigeria&#8217;s six geopolitical zones have received scholarships under a new initiative aimed at improving women&#8217;s health outcomes and strengthening female representation in the country&#8217;s health sector.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The beneficiaries were selected under the inaugural National Medical Students&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601120062.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 founder noted that the initiative was created in response to long-standing gaps in how women&#8217;s health needs are understood, researched and prioritised in policy and investment. Thirty female medical students from across Nigeria&#8217;s six geopolitical zones have received scholarships under a new initiative aimed at improving women&#8217;s health outcomes and strengthening female representation in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220170,"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":[7325,258,256,4353,12910,6029,5192,5731,5957,7417,257,4687,393,5761,6625,254,6695],"class_list":["post-220169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-address","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-female","tag-gap","tag-gender","tag-group","tag-health","tag-launches","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-scholarship","tag-south-africa-today","tag-students"],"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\/220169","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=220169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}