Nigeria, Sept. 25 -- Nigeria has reaffirmed its commitment to the African Union's (AU) plan to scale up the deployment of two million community health workers (CHWs) across the continent by 2030 to strengthen primary healthcare delivery and achieve universal health coverage.

The Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Iziaq Salako, made this known on Tuesday at the African CDC's 2nd Taskforce Meeting of the Community Health Continental Coordination Mechanism (CCM) Principals.

The meeting was held at UNICEF Headquarters in New York, on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

Mr Salako, who delivered a message of solidarity from President Bola Tinubu, said CHWs remain central to health security and resi...