Nigeria Faces Health Inequalities Despite Oil-Rich South

Humanosphere: Oil-rich Nigeria still suffers from massive health inequities
Katie Leach-Kemon, a policy translation specialist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Humanosphere contributor, and Nancy Fullman, an IHME policy translation specialist and a co-author of a new study on health systems performance in Nigeria, pull from the study to examine the nation’s challenges of “persistent health inequalities between Nigeria’s oil-rich south and the impoverished north” (9/3).

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