RenewHER Targets 100m Nigerians In Women’s Health Drive

The national authorities has launched a bold nationalist strategy aimed astatine transforming women’s wellness done the bureau of the Senior Special Assistant to the President connected Women’s Health, Dr. Adanna Steinacker. The strategy besides aims astatine advancing sex equity done a data-driven, technology-enabled and financially intelligent approach.

The initiative, known arsenic RenewHER (Renew Health Equity and Reform), was unveiled astatine the State House Banquet Hall, Abuja, connected Thursday evening. Vice President Kashim Shettima, who represented President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, led the motorboat alongside stakeholders successful health, governance, and development.

At the event, the Women’s Health Digital Media and Communications Hub was inaugurated. The level volition service arsenic a nationalist advocacy and storytelling abstraction to amplify women’s voices, spotlight innovations, and prolong conversations astir six precedence areas: maternal, newborn and kid health; intersexual and reproductive health; teen wellness and menstrual equity; nutrition and preventive care; healthcare workforce and access; and conjugation building.

The motorboat besides featured a statesmanlike keynote address, the premiere of the RenewHER run film, a taste showcase, the Health Innovator Awards, and a symbolic National Pledge Moment to mobilise broad-based enactment for the programme.

On a one-on-one interrogation with LEADERSHIP, the elder peculiar adjunct to the president connected women’s health, Dr. Adanna Steinacker, described RenewHER arsenic “a nationalist telephone to enactment to redefine the aboriginal of women’s wellness and economical equity successful Nigeria,” noting that the inaugural would harness integer tools, assemblage engagement and argumentation reforms to present measurable results.

Speaking astatine the event, Dr. Steinacker highlighted that women successful Nigeria and crossed the satellite stay underrepresented and segregated successful cardinal improvement indices. She cited United Nations information showing that it could instrumentality much than 120 years to execute sex equality worldwide if existent trends persist. She explained that this spread informed the president’s determination to found the Office connected Women’s Health, stressing that empowering fractional of the colonisation is some a societal and economical imperative. “Including women is an economical priority. It has measurable advantages, erstwhile women are healthy, they are much productive, children enactment successful school, societies are richer, and GDP grows,” she said.

On projected impact, Steinacker disclosed that 1 of the office’s flagship programmes, the Women’s Health Nigeria Digital Hub, aims to scope much than 100 cardinal Nigerians wrong 3 years done wellness education, advocacy, and campaigns to combat misinformation and amended health-seeking behaviours. She added that project-specific targets for on-ground campaigns would beryllium connected geopolitical contexts and assemblage priorities.

Key strategical partners see the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), the Nigeria Governors’ Spouses Forum (NGSF), the Maternal and Neonatal Mortality Reduction Innovation Initiative (MAMII), the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) and the Women successful Healthcare Network (WIHCN). Through these collaborations, RenewHER is besides expected to make economical opportunities for women via integer wallets, microgrants, skills grooming and women-led innovations.

Stakeholders astatine the motorboat agreed that advancing women’s wellness is cardinal to nationalist improvement and called for sustained collaboration betwixt government, the backstage sector, and civilian nine to guarantee semipermanent impact.