Report: The right to health during COVID-19 in Nigeria. Discrimination and inequality in a commercialised healthcare system.

The report exposes how the commercialisation of healthcare in Nigeria is amongst the main factors undermining the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The document details how governmental policies and international development actors have encouraged the growth of private and commercial healthcare since the late 1980s. It analyses how the marketised healthcare system was largely unprepared to handle the COVID-19 pandemic, with several impacts on the right to health. As a result, the report urges the Nigerian government to prioritise the provision of public healthcare services for all and reverse current policies intended to encourage higher participation of for-profit healthcare actors.