The overall objective of policy in the health sector will be to improve the health status of Nigerians in order to increase productivity, Job creation, wealth creation & poverty reduction.

The specific elements of the objective include:

• Increase in the life expectancy of Nigerians; through improvement of healthcare services.
• Ensuring universal access to basic health care and reproductive health;
• Improvement of maternal and child health; and
• Achieving high and substantial levels of immunization against all vaccine preventable diseases, including attaining national self-sufficiency in vaccine production

Irreducible minimum objectives for State and LGA

• Free medical services for pregnant women and children less than five years;
• Rehabilitate or construct a standard health care centers in each ward;
•  Rehabilitate or construct a well-equipped General Hospital in each Local
  Government Area;
• Support NAFDAC to rid rural areas of fake drugs;
• Reduce HI V/AIDS prevalence to under 2%;
•  Encourage research into traditional medicine and local production of drugs;
• Routine immunization of all children under five years

To get there: PDP will

• 
  Institutionalize restructuring, reorganization, re-orientation, strengtstrengthen redefining of roles and responsibilities;
• Review existing policies and strategies on health legislation;
  Refurbish the primary health care facilities to make them operational;
• Strengthen local governments capacity in primary health care management;
• Create an enabling environment for local production of Nigeria’s needs for
  essential drugs and supplies and antiretroviral drugs and reagents;
• Develop and implement an appropriate response to HI V/AIDS pandemic;
• Develop and implement a strategy to enhance community participation in providing and financing health services;
• Establish a reliable system for supplying good-quality drugs and medical materials to health facilities;
• Encourage Public Private Partnership in Health Care delivery;
• Assist the Local Governments capacity in Primary Health Care
  Management, especially in Maternal and Child Health, TB, Malaria, HIV/AIDS
  and other communicable diseases and sickle cell diseases;
• Expand training facilities for all categories of health Personnel;
• Upgrade the entire various tertiary health institutes to international standards.
• Promote Health by creating 100% awareness of the various risk factors and provide health centres free medical information and help
• Ensure through the state and LG that the vaccine get to the entire population.

Making progress...
Improved funding and targeted health programmes... PAYING OFF

Substantial government funding and determined focus on selected areas has positively and significantly impacted on health/welfare.

Access to basic health facilities and care has been greatly enhanced and given significant increase in health care centers.

Improved portable water supply has reduced the number of water borne disease recorded.

Life expectancy up by 1.6 years for Male and 1.5 years for Female from 1999 levels

The fight against HIV/AIDS is BEING WON

Considerable awareness campaign on HIV/AIDS pandemic has resulted in a consistent decline in HIV/AIDS prevalence rate.

Strong political commitment has translated into greater support for intervention.

Nigeria was the first county in Sub-Saharan Africa where the government commitment to putting some 10,000 adults and 5000 children on Anti-Retroviral Therapy(ART) using HER OWN RESOURCES in 2002 using 25 hospitals as pilot sites.

The number of ART site has increased since then from 25(in 2002) to 85.

About 69,000 people on treatment as of April 2006.