Public Health Strategy of the National Action Plan for Reduction/Elimination of Mercury Use in Artisanal & Small Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in Nigeria

The Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) has conducted public health and institutional assessments on ASGM, noted key findings and recommendations, staged a discourse with stakeholders and selected key priorities for implementation. A number of recommendations at different levels of intervention, i.e. individual, community and institutional level which emanated from the assessments conducted by FMOH guided the selection of public health interventions within this National Action Plan.