Toyin Saraki

Toyin Ojora Saraki, LLB, LLM, BL, FPH
Founder @WellbeingAfrica
Global Ambassador @WHOFoundation
Advocate: RMNCAH+N, EmONC, WASH
Mrs, Mother, Grandma!

[Toyin Saraki @ToyinSaraki]

It is with profound honour that I present The Toyin Saraki Global Office Policy and Philanthropy Report 2025, published under the theme Stronger Together, Accountability for Quality Care, at a defining juncture in which the distance between declaration and delivery must be closed if the promise of universal, quality care is to be kept.

Where my 2024 report advanced the conviction that Collaboration is Multiplication, this year's report carries it into its next phase, for collective action acquires meaning only where its outcomes are measured. Partnership, in this understanding, is a discipline, requiring institutions to align policy, financing, implementation evidence, and accountability around care that is safe, respectful, and reliable.

Stronger Together names the understanding, and the actioning together, of women's, children's, and adolescent health, water, sanitation and hygiene, climate, and nutrition as a single indivisible agenda, in the spirit of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in which progress in any one domain depends upon accountable movement in all.

My gratitude belongs to every @WellbeingAfrica partner who has upheld that standard alongside us, among them government, multilateral institutions, civil society, academia, and the private sector, and above all to the #WBFA midwives, nurses, doctors, and frontline health workers whose daily practice determines what those standards mean in reality.

Read the full report at https://t.co/WR33vthWLN

#AnnualReport2025
#StrongerTogether
#AccountabilityForQualityCare
#WellbeingForAll

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It was a privilege to begin my week at the Annual In-Person Meeting of the @Bayer Sustainability Council at the Damianshof in Rommerskirchen, a family farm cultivated by six successive generations of the Olligs family and today part of the Bayer ForwardFarming network.

The Bayer Sustainability Council is an independent body of external experts that advises the Board of Management and the company's internal working groups on sustainability, convening in person each year to review progress and set direction. As a Member of the Council, I serve within its working group on climate and health, which examines how extreme heat, flooding and pressures on food systems affect the health of women and children across the continuum of care, and how health systems and communities can build resilience in response.

The Damianshof offered a fitting setting in which to open these deliberations. Set on deep loess soils of exceptional quality, the farm combines commercial production of wheat, sugar beet, potatoes, oilseed rape and barley with a rigorous programme of environmental stewardship, including flower strips and nesting habitats for pollinators and farmland birds, continuous weather monitoring to guide precise field decisions, dedicated systems for groundwater protection, and soil conservation techniques in potato cultivation that limit erosion and reduce the risk of flooding.

These are lessons of real value for farming communities across Africa, where the resilience of food production in a changing climate bears directly on maternal nutrition and newborn health, and I look forward to carrying them home to inform the community health and nutrition work of @WellbeingAfrica in Nigeria.

I extend my sincere thanks to Mr Bernd Olligs and his family for their generous hospitality and for sharing the knowledge of a farm stewarded with such care across generations, and to Bayer for convening a visit of great substance at the outset of the Council's meeting.

#ForwardFarming
#ClimateAndHealth
#HealthForAllHungerForNone
#WellbeingForAll
#FrontlineFriday

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Today the world observes the International Day of Non-Violence, marked each year on 2 October, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. Established by the @UN General Assembly in 2007, the Day calls on all nations to spread the message of non-violence through education and public awareness, and to build a lasting culture of peace, tolerance and mutual understanding.

For women and children, violence is too often encountered closest to home, within households, communities and, increasingly, online spaces, and its consequences extend directly into women’s, children’s and adolescent health, mental wellbeing and the opportunity to thrive.

Through the @WellbeingAfrica Foundation, I continue to advance stronger institutional responses to gender-based violence, including as part of the Athena Centre's Policy Working Group on Institutional Response to Gender-Based Violence, and to address the emerging risks of technology-facilitated violence against women and children in Nigeria's digital landscape.

On this day, I join the United Nations in affirming that non-violence is sustained through education, accountable institutions and communities equipped to protect their most vulnerable, so that every person may live in safety and dignity.

#InternationalDayOfNonViolence
#CultureOfPeace
#WellbeingForAll
#FrontlineFriday

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Today marks the beginning of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and this year's World Health Organization theme, Every Story is Unique, Every Journey Matters, invites us to remember that behind every diagnosis stands a woman, a family and a community, each meeting this disease with different challenges, different networks of support and very different access to care.

Breast cancer remains the most common cancer among women worldwide, and according to the @WHO, an estimated 2.4 million women were diagnosed and 694,000 women lost their lives to the disease in 2024. The journey after diagnosis is shaped profoundly by geography, with around 41% of women in low-income countries expected to survive five years after diagnosis, compared with 87% in high-income countries, while approximately 70% of breast cancer deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries.

As a Member of the Global Breast Cancer Care Council, convened by @AstraZeneca, I am grateful to contribute to the Breast Cancer Care Quality Index #BCCQI, which helps countries measure and strengthen the quality of care across the full breast cancer pathway. Alongside this, @WellbeingAfrica works at the community and primary care end of that pathway, supporting patient navigation so that women across Nigeria are guided from awareness and first symptoms through to timely referral, diagnosis, treatment and the support they need along the way.

This October, I join the WHO in calling on health systems and partners everywhere to advance the targets of the Global Breast Cancer Initiative, ensuring that 60% of invasive breast cancers are diagnosed at stage I or II, that diagnosis follows within 60 days of first presentation, and that 80% of those diagnosed receive complete treatment, so that where a woman lives need never determine whether she survives.

#BCAM2026
#BreastCancerAwarenessMonth
#WellbeingForAll

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Happy 66th Independence Day to every Nigerian at home and across the diaspora! On this day in 1960, our nation stepped into the promise of a future shaped by its own people, and sixty-six years on, that promise lives on in the mothers, midwives, farmers, young innovators and health workers whose resilience and generosity carry our country forward each day.

As we celebrate, I hold in my thoughts the women and children whose health and wellbeing remain the truest measure of our progress, and I remain deeply grateful to the partners and colleagues who stand with the @WellbeingAfrica Foundation in building a Nigeria where every family can thrive.

May our nation continue to grow in unity, peace and prosperity, and may each of us renew our commitment to nurturing the generations to come.

#NigeriaAt66
#HappyIndependenceDay

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As High-Level Week at the 81st Session of the @UN General Assembly continued in New York, the delegation of the H.E. Toyin Saraki Global Policy and Philanthropy Office and the @WellbeingAfrica Foundation was represented on the panel Trade, Tariffs, Manufacturing and Investment in Personalised Medicine by my Director of Global Health Policy, Advocacy and Communications, Zelia Bukhari, at MFN, Trade and Tariffs, The Future of Personalised Medicine, chaired by Dr Denis Horgan, Secretary General of the International Alliance for Personalised Medicine @united4cancer.

Zelia joined a panel moderated by Dr Vivek Subbiah of the Stanford Cancer Institute, with Prashant Yadav of the Council on Foreign Relations, Dr Mitchell Elkind of the American Heart Association, Josep Figueras of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and Dr Oscar Arrieta Rodríguez of the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología in Mexico, following a keynote earlier in the afternoon on when trade policy becomes health policy, in which Dr John Longshore of @AstraZeneca joined Professor Michael Makanga of EDCTP and colleagues from Brazil and the United States.

Personalised medicine travels a long pathway, from research to clinical trial, diagnostic test, treatment and follow-up, and a tariff, a localisation rule or a pricing decision taken in one market can interrupt it in every other. A woman in Lagos or Ilorin cannot benefit from a targeted therapy her hospital cannot obtain, nor from a biomarker test her laboratory cannot run, which is why my office highlighted that access depends equally upon the pathologists, the laboratories, the workforce and the data systems that make precision possible.

The conference concluded with the New York Principles on MFN, Trade and Personalised Medicine, calling for a patient-access test on all major pricing, tariff and localisation measures, and for the assessment of their international spillovers upon smaller and lower-income markets. Our thanks to Dr Horgan for the invitation.

#UNGA81
#PersonalisedMedicine
#WellbeingForAll

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On this International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, I join @FAO, @UNEP and partners worldwide in marking the seventh observance of the day, held this year under the theme of the Transformative Potential of Reducing Food Loss and Waste, and its promise of a triple win in food security and nutrition, in relieved pressure upon natural resources and the climate, and in productivity and economic growth.

An estimated 13% of the world's food is lost after harvest before it ever reaches a market, and a further 19% of the food that does reach consumers is wasted, some 1.05 billion tonnes each year, 60% of it in our own households. This continues while one in thirteen people experienced hunger last year and 2.69 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet.

Fruits and vegetables, the very foods a pregnant woman, a nursing mother and a growing child most require, suffer the highest losses of any food group, which makes this a question of nutrition and of maternal, newborn and child health rather than one of agriculture alone. A nation may grow enough and still find its mothers anaemic and its children stunted if what is harvested spoils between the farm and the family table.

At my @WellbeingAfrica Foundation, our midwives carry nutrition counselling into every #MamaCare360 antenatal and postnatal class, on dietary diversity, on breastfeeding and on the safe handling and storage of food in the home, because the first thousand days of a child's life allow no margin for a meal that never arrives.

Reducing food loss and waste is equally a climate solution, accounting as it does for a tenth of global greenhouse gas emissions. Governments and the private sector must invest in the cold chains, storage, processing and market access that keep African harvests whole.

#FLWday
#WellbeingForAll

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As the work of High-Level Week at the 81st Session of the @UN General Assembly continued in New York, the delegation of my H.E. Toyin Saraki Global Policy and Philanthropy Office and the @WellbeingAfrica Foundation spoke at The Science Exists. Why Is Delivery Still Failing? Closing the Gap for Mothers, Children and Adolescents, the private breakfast roundtable convened by @ForeignPolicy in partnership with @ViiVHC and held under the Chatham House Rule, sharing the Foundation's frontline experience of health delivery in Nigeria.

The question posed in the title is precisely the one I carry as Co-Chair of the @AfricaREACH1 Leadership Council, where our purpose is to see a proven scientific and clinical protocol for the prevention of vertical transmission translated into routine service delivery reaching every mother, infant and adolescent on our continent.

Some 120,000 children acquired HIV through vertical transmission in the most recent year counted, and while 79% of adults living with HIV receive antiretroviral therapy, only 55% of children do, a disparity in coverage that has widened rather than closed. Nigeria remains among the countries carrying the largest numbers of children newly acquiring HIV, which places a particular duty upon all of us who work alongside our health system.

The means of prevention have been established for years, so the deficit lies in implementation, in antenatal services not reached, in testing not offered, in treatment not continued through the postpartum and breastfeeding period, and in paediatric formulations that do not arrive. Through #MamaCare360 and the midwives of my @WellbeingAfrica Foundation, we work precisely where those gaps open, in the antenatal and postnatal contact at which a mother and her infant can be tested, treated and retained in care.

As financing contracts, governments, industry and donors must protect the integration of HIV services within routine antenatal, newborn and adolescent care, so that no child begins life with an infection the world has long known how to prevent.

#UNGA81
#AfricaREACH
#EndPaediatricAIDS
#WellbeingForAll

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The delegation of my H.E. Toyin Saraki Global Policy and Philanthropy Office and the @WellbeingAfrica Foundation was glad to take part in Connect, Power, Heal, Bundling Connectivity, Energy, Innovation and Partnership at the Health Frontline, convened at the UN Church Center during #UNGA81 by the Health Innovation Exchange under this year's Better Together banner, bringing together @Proximie, @Amref_Worldwide, the M-PESA Foundation, the Mawingu Foundation, the Council of Governors of Kenya, the American College of Surgeons through ACS H.O.P.E., Lwala Community Alliance and Lacuna.

Ask a surgeon in a district hospital what stands between her and the operation in front of her, and the answer is seldom a single thing. The theatre may be equipped and the power unreliable, the clinician skilled and the specialist unreachable, the technology installed and the bandwidth absent. Bundled together, last-mile connectivity, dependable energy and fit-for-purpose clinical technology amount to a functioning service, while delivered separately each waits upon the others.

As Special Adviser to the Independent Advisory Group of the @WHOAFRO Regional Office, and in our capacity as a partner to this work through my Wellbeing Foundation Africa, I have observed how frequently the constraint upon our health systems rests in these foundations rather than in the will or the skill of African health workers, and how swiftly matters improve when partners arrive together rather than in turn.

There was a welcome discipline to this convening, as partners returned a year on from the commitments made at the last General Assembly to account for what has been delivered, what has held and what has proved harder than expected. That habit of coming back to report is one our sector would do well to adopt far more widely.

Governments, operators and investors would do well to design connectivity, energy and clinical technology as a single proposition, so that the frontline receives a service that works rather than a collection of parts.

#UNGA81
#HealthInnovation
#WellbeingForAll

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As my Global Office and @WellbeingAfrica Foundation delegation continued its #UNGA81 engagements, my office joined the Annual Summit of the Global Alliance for Women's Health, convened by the World Economic Forum @WEF alongside the Forum's Sustainable Development Impact Meetings, where I am glad to serve within the Champions Community as a WEF Champion of the Global Alliance for Women's Health.

The session on the State of Women's Health brought together Dr Muyi Aina of Nigeria's National Primary Health Care Development Agency @NPHCDA, Claire Thwaites of @ThisIsReckitt, Ishaan Tewarie of EQT Life Sciences and Sanjana Bhardwaj of the @GatesFoundation.

Women spend a quarter more of their lives in poor health than men, and the Alliance was founded on the finding that closing that gap could add at least one trillion dollars to the global economy each year by 2040, the equivalent of 137 million women in full-time employment. Having joined this Alliance at its inception, it is a satisfaction to see the evidence maturing into investment, policy and care delivery.

Of particular significance for Nigeria was the Private-Sector Compact announced in support of the Maternal Mortality Reduction Innovation Initiative, aligning private and philanthropic capability behind workforce, supply chain, emergency transportation and financial protection in the local government areas where maternal mortality is highest, with government able to mobilise and track what each partner brings. Through #MamaCare360 and the midwives and nurses of my @WellbeingAfrica Foundation, we have long held that coordination of this kind is what turns a commitment into care a woman actually receives.

I invite investors, industry and governments to carry this next phase into delivery, financing women's health across the life course as the growth strategy the evidence has shown it to be.

#UNGA81
#WomensHealth
#MAMII
#WellbeingForAll

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My office was pleased to take part in the Africa Social Impact Summit Global Action Forum at #UNGA81, hosted by Sterling @OneFoundationng with @UNFPA and RALLY Africa as Strategic Co-Hosts, alongside @UN_Nigeria, the Federal Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, and @GlobalCompactNG.

Convened under the theme of Financing for Development: Building Resilience and Transforming Emerging Economies, the Forum carried the conversation from Lagos to New York around a question that will shape the coming decade, which is how Africa might unlock and deploy new pools of capital at the scale that resilient economies and sustainable development genuinely require. Having served as a Member of the United Nations Global Compact since 2018, we at the @WellbeingAfrica Foundation have long worked toward the answer.

The delegation was glad to reconnect with Ms Mariarosa Cutillo Blake, Chief of the Private Sector and Civil Society Branch at UNFPA, whose work in drawing private capital toward the health and rights of women and girls speaks directly to the purpose of this convening.

That maternal health now sits among the investment priorities named in New York is a welcome recognition of what those of us in this field have long understood, which is that the health of a mother is not a cost to be carried but a foundation upon which the prosperity of a nation is built, and that what is invested in her returns to the household she leads, to the workforce she sustains, and to every generation that follows her. My hope is that the commitments made in that room travel home with those who made them, into the budgets, the institutions and the communities where they will be measured.

#UNGA81
#FinancingForDevelopment
#ASIS2026
#WellbeingForAll

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As the work of #UNGA81 High-Level Week continues in New York, the @WellbeingAfrica Foundation was glad to be present at the @Devex Impact House for Everyday Impact: Scaling Postpartum Haemorrhage Prevention and Treatment Innovations, convened in partnership with MSD for Mothers.

Postpartum haemorrhage remains among the foremost causes of maternal death across the world, and it remains a cause that we have long known how to prevent and to treat, which is what makes each loss so difficult to accept. Moderated by Ms Rumbi Chakamba of Devex, the discussion brought together Dr Tomi Coker of the Ogun State Ministry of Health @ogsghealth, Dr Uchenna Igbokwe of the Solina Centre for International Development and Research @SCIDaR_, Dr Bashir Issak of the Ministry of Health of Kenya, and colleagues from @Jhpiego and LifeNet International, on what is required to carry proven innovation out of the pilot and into the routine practice of a health system, where it belongs.

This is the work at the core of #WBFA's mission, through the training of midwives, nurses, and frontline health workers, and through the antenatal and postnatal education that our midwives deliver to mothers in their thousands across Nigeria under #MamaCare360. Where the science has been settled for some time, it is the delivery that must now command our attention, so that care for women, children and adolescents is within reach across the life course, and I invite our partners across government, industry and philanthropy to hold that ambition alongside us.

#UNGA81
#MaternalHealth
#PostpartumHaemorrhage
#WellbeingForAll

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As my Global Office and @WellbeingAfrica Foundation delegation continue through #UNGA81 High-Level Week, it was a privilege for my office to join The Women's Table networking breakfast at the 2026 Annual @ConcordiaSummit, convened under the theme of Advancing Human Rights and Social Progress, where I am glad to serve on the Leadership Council.

The morning brought together Mrs Cherie Blair CBE KC of Omnia Strategy LLP, Mrs Alyse Nelson of @VitalVoices, Ms Tarana Burke of @MeTooMVMT, Mrs Nitzia Logothetis of @selenidotorg, Ms Vivian Onano of the Leading Light Initiative, and Madam Bineta Ndeye Diop of the African Women Leaders Network @AWLNetwork, of which I am also a member, for a conversation on the leadership that human rights and social progress now ask of each of us.

Across decades of this work, I have found that the most lasting progress comes from women who keep faith with one another's ambitions long after the convening has closed. My thanks to Concordia for the invitation, and to every woman who took a seat at the table this morning.

#UNGA81 
#Concordia2026
#WomensLeadership 
#WellbeingForAll

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As my Global Office and the @WellbeingAfrica Foundation delegation continued its engagements through #UNGA81, my office joined the Business Council for International Understanding @BCIU and the Global Self-Care Federation for their high-level roundtable, Beyond the Next Pandemic and Towards Universal Health Coverage, on self-care, community resilience and the future of health sustainability.

Opened by Mr Greg Perry, Director General of @Selfcarefed_org, the discussion heard a keynote from Dr Mohamed Hassany, Assistant Minister of Health and Population of Egypt, and perspectives from Dr Samuel Kaba Akoriyea of the Ghana Health Service @_GHSofficial and Dr Mercy Mwangangi and Mr Anthony Lenayara of Kenya's Social Health Authority and Digital Health Agency, alongside partners including @ThisIsReckitt, @UNICEF, @UNFoundation, Colgate-Palmolive @CP_News and PATH Global Health.

GSCF's newly launched report, The Global Social and Economic Value of Self-Care 2.0, the first to measure the preventive value of self-care, finds that self-care now saves health systems some $144 billion a year, up from $119 billion four years ago, while adding 24 million high-quality years of life, with benefits that could rise by up to 50% by 2040 under supportive policies.

Across sub-Saharan Africa, which faces half of the world's projected shortfall of ten million health workers by 2030, self-care extends the reach of the health system into every home, as individuals, families and communities take an active part in promoting health, preventing disease and managing illness. Through our frontline programming and the health literacy our midwives, nurses, and community health workers build across Nigeria, the Wellbeing Foundation Africa equips women, adolescents and families with the knowledge and confidence to practise safe and informed self-care, recognise danger signs early and seek skilled care in good time.

I encourage governments and partners to integrate responsible self-care into national health strategies and primary health care, strengthening health literacy and access to quality-assured products on the road to universal health coverage. My thanks to BCIU, GSCF and Sidley Austin for such a timely convening.

#UNGA81
#SelfCare #UHC
#WellbeingForAll

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As my Global Office and @WellbeingAfrica Foundation delegation continued its #UNGA81 engagements, it was a privilege for my office to attend Health Resilience in the 21st Century, Delivering Outcomes Amid Shocks and Stressors, convened by The @RockefellerFdn and @Seed_Global Health, on whose Board of Trustees I am honoured to serve, and livestreamed to audiences around the world.

Nigeria's voice opened the programme, as the Honourable Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr @taiwoyedele, delivered an opening address, and it was especially meaningful to hear him speak to the central role of finance ministries in building health systems that endure.

A second panel on resilience from the ground up, moderated by Manisha Bhinge of the Rockefeller Foundation, heard from Dr Monika Moir of Stellenbosch University, Dr Agostinho Sousa of the UK Health Security Agency, Dr Mebratu Massebo of Ethiopia's Ministry of Health and Joy Phumaphi of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance, followed by a conversation between Dr Vanessa Kerry, Co-Founder and CEO of Seed and WHO Director-General's Special Envoy for Health Resilience, and Hon. Budi Gunadi Sadikin, Minister of Health of Indonesia, and closing remarks from Dr Naveen Rao.

Seed's partnerships with governments and universities have trained more than 47,000 doctors, nurses and midwives across Africa, and the Wellbeing Foundation Africa holds the same conviction in Nigeria, where our midwives, nurses, doctors and health workers help keep care for women, children and adolescents within reach across the life course when systems come under strain.

I invite governments, philanthropies and partners to treat the health workforce as core infrastructure and to finance resilience through integrated, country-led primary health care, placing mothers and newborns at the centre of every preparedness plan. My thanks to the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr Kerry and Seed, and to the Honourable Minister for bringing Nigeria's perspective to so important a conversation.

#UNGA81
#HealthResilience
#HealthWorkforce
#WellbeingForAll

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As the delegation of my Global Policy and Philanthropy Office and the @WellbeingAfrica Foundation opened our #UNGA81 High-Level Week programme, it was a privilege for my office to join @EveryPregnancy, the coalition on whose Advisory Board I am honoured to serve, at @GoalsHouse for From Pipeline to Pregnancy, convened together with @Philips and the Office of the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Women's Health.

Moderated by Isra Chaker @IsraSpeaks, Founder and CEO of Every Pregnancy, the conversation brought together Dr Zaher @Sahloul, President and CEO of @MedGlobalOrg; Mazen Mokhtar, CEO of @Baitulmaal; Dr Matthew Rielly, Ventures Business Leader at Philips; and @Dr_Adanna, Senior Special Assistant to the President of Nigeria on Women's Health, with remarks from Dr Rasa Izadnegahdar of the @GatesFoundation, each speaking to how financing, frontline partners and innovation can meet a mother across the whole pathway of her care.

In 2023, an estimated 260,000 women lost their lives to complications of pregnancy and childbirth, the equivalent of one mother every two minutes, and seven in ten of those deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa, despite the overwhelming majority being preventable with skilled and timely care. Every Pregnancy, the world's first Zakat-approved Muslim collaborative for maternal and newborn health, is changing how communities of faith respond, channelling giving through trusted local partners to mobilise $91 million from more than 192,000 donors during Ramadan 2026 and nearly $130 million for mothers and newborns since 2024.

I encourage every partner in this room and beyond to keep aligning resources behind the midwives, health workers and local organisations who carry this work each day, a commitment the Wellbeing Foundation Africa shares through our own work alongside midwives and nurses across Nigeria, so that every mother is assured a safe pregnancy.

#UNGA81
#EveryPregnancy
#WellbeingForAll

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Warm congratulations to H.E. Dr. (Mrs.) Florence Ajimobi @FlorenceAjimobi on her posting by His Excellency President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, as Nigeria's Ambassador to the Republic of Austria and Permanent Representative to the International Organisations in Vienna.

As First Lady of Oyo State, you stood firmly for women and vulnerable households, and through the ABC Foundation you continue to bring hope to so many affected by cancer. It is a joy to see your service recognised in this way, and Nigeria is truly well represented.

Wishing you every success and blessing in Vienna. 🇳🇬🇦🇹

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It is a privilege to serve on the Advisory Board of @EveryPregnancy alongside Amira Sajwani, Emmanuel Akpakwu and Zaheerah Bham-Ismail, under the distinguished leadership of Isra Chaker @IsraSpeaks.

Every Pregnancy has demonstrated what becomes possible when communities of faith place mothers at the centre of their philanthropy. As the world's first Zakat-approved Muslim collaborative dedicated to maternal and newborn health, its coalition now unites more than 80 organisations across 25 countries. During Ramadan this year, catalysed by a Boost Fund made possible through the generosity of the @GatesFoundation and the DAMAC Foundation, it mobilised over $91 million in a single month from more than 192,000 donors, bringing the total raised for maternal and newborn health since 2024 to nearly $130 million. This is catalytic, faith-inspired philanthropy in action, and a model for how to finance maternal health at scale.

Behind every figure stands a mother. Too many women continue to lose their lives to causes we know how to prevent, and for those living through conflict, displacement and crisis, the dangers are graver still. Across more than two decades of service through my Wellbeing Foundation Africa @WellbeingAfrica, we have learned that when we invest in midwives, nurses and health workers, in respectful care and in the voices of women themselves, lives are saved.

I look forward to advancing this work with my fellow Board members, the Every Pregnancy team and our partners, to strengthen collaboration, expand what works and realise a world where every pregnancy is safe and every baby has a healthy start. 🤍

#EveryPregnancy
#WellbeingForAll
#FrontlineFriday

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On World Patient Safety Day, I join the World Health Organization @WHO, the Global Self-Care Federation and partners worldwide in marking this year's theme, Safe Care for Noncommunicable Diseases, and its call for Safe Care for Life.

Noncommunicable diseases #NCDs, including cardiovascular diseases, cancers, diabetes and chronic respiratory conditions, account for 74% of deaths worldwide, and with one in ten patients harmed during health care, around half of it preventable, people living with these conditions deserve protection at every stage of their care, from prevention and early detection to treatment and self-management.

At the @WellbeingAfrica Foundation, we believe that self-care must always be safe care, in line with the WHO Guideline on Self-Care Interventions for Health and Well-being, which acknowledges self-care interventions as valued parts of the health system, and we are mindful that patient safety rests equally upon the wellbeing of the midwives, nurses and health workers who deliver that care.

I call on governments, partners and communities to embed safe, people-centred self-care within primary health care and to support every health worker to thrive, so that no one living with an NCD is harmed while seeking care.

#WorldPatientSafetyDay
#SafeCareForLife
#PatientSafety
#WellbeingForAll

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Over the weekend, my dear sister Dr @AminaDorayi celebrated her 50th birthday, and I join her family, friends and colleagues across the global health community in wishing her a truly blessed birthday.

As Nigeria Country Director and Regional Portfolio Director for West and Central Africa at @PathfinderInt and co-Chair of Women in Global Health Nigeria @WGHNigerin @WomeninGH, Amina has devoted her career to widening access to quality health care for women, girls and underserved communities, most recently chairing the Technical Advisory Committee of the Gender and Inclusion Summit 2026 in Abuja.

May this new decade bring you abundant good health, happiness and peace, dear Amina. Happy 50th birthday!

#HappyBirthday
#WellbeingForAll