national health system shall be achieved by mainstreaming gender considerations in all health programmes. The February 2005 National Policy on Population for Sustainable Development has the overall goal of improving the quality of life and standard of living for the Nigerian population. This is to be achieved through the attainment of a number of specific goals that include:  Achievement of sustainable economic growth, protection and preservation of the environment, poverty eradication, and provision of quality social services;  Achievement of a balance between the rate of population growth, available resources, and social and economic development of the country;  Progress towards a complete demographic transition to a reasonable growth in birth rates and a low death rate;  Improvement in the reproductive health of all Nigerian at every stage of the life circle;  Acceleration of a strong and immediate response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and other related infectious diseases;  Progress in achieving balance and integrated urban and rural development. The overall goal of the National Policy on HIV/AIDS 2003 is to control the spread of HIV-AIDS in Nigeria, and to mitigate its impact to the point where it is no longer of public health, social and economic concerns, such that all Nigerians will be able to achieve socially and economically productive live free of the diseases and its effects. The primary objective of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) is to ensure that every Nigerian has access to good health care services, protect families from financial hardship of huge medical bills, and ensure equitable distribution of health care costs among different income groups. There are several sub-programmes under this scheme such as Children under-Five Social Health Insurance Programme (CFSHIP), Permanently Disabled Persons Social Health Insurance Programme (PDPSHIP), Formal Sector Social Health Insurance Programme (FSSHIP), Urban Self-employed Social Health Insurance Programme (USSHIP), Rural Community Social Health Insurance Programme (RCSHIP) and Prison Inmates Social Health Insurance Programme (PISHIP). The programme is funded through contribution of members and employer’s investment income. The Integrated Child Survival and Development (ICSD) Strategic Framework and Plan of Action (2005-2009)” (National Planning Commission, 2005) combines effective interventions for preventing death and improving health, growth and development. It is to serve as a reference document to guide implementation of child-survival interventions by governments at all levels. The overall objective of the Revised National Health Policy is to strengthen the national health system such that it will be able to provide effective, efficient, quality, accessible and affordable health services that will improve the health status of Nigerians through the achievement of the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The following were the targets set by the National Health Policy:  Reduce the under-five mortality rate by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015;  Reduce the maternal mortality rate by three-quarters between 1990 and 2015;  Reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015; 73