Nigeria is the first country to use the Emergency-Ready Primary Health Care (ERPHC) Framework, developed by Resolve to Save Lives and WHO, to build a large-scale, country-specific preparedness plan.
Resolve to Save Lives recently partnered with the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, the World Bank, the African Field Epidemiology Network, state governments and others to hold a national workshop on putting the Framework into practice. The ERPHC Framework gives countries a practical roadmap to strengthen primary healthcare systems so they can prevent, detect and respond to health threats while maintaining essential services.
This milestone builds on years of RTSL and partners piloting Epidemic-Ready Primary Health Care across Nigeria. Nigeria’s leadership now offers a model other countries can adapt, showing that preparing health systems for emergencies and delivering everyday care are not competing goals but complementary ones.
“For the first time, a country has moved beyond piloting the ERPHC Framework and committed to scaling it through national implementation,” said Dr. Stacey Mearns, Director of Primary Health Care at Resolve to Save Lives. “Nigeria’s leadership sets a new standard for how countries can strengthen preparedness while protecting both health workers and communities.”
Learn more about Epidemic-Ready Primary Health Care (ERPHC).
