Insurgency in Nigeria: The Perspectives on Health Care Delivery to Gender Affected Victims amongst IDPs

The Boko Haram (BH) emerged in Nigeria in 2002 with the aim of total implementation of the Sharia law in Nigeria, yet there are other reasons such as socio-economic factors in the north-east where the group has been more prevalent.The domestic-based insurgent group became more sophisticated after its establishment of links with some international terrorist organizations (ITOs) such as Al-Qaeda, AQIM and Al-Shabaab.The group made its attacks to threaten the national security of Nigeria in the destruction of lives, properties and displacement of people and genders such as women and children.These displaced people have no option than to live in camps with serious need of social amenities such as health care.These camps are mostly provided, supervised and catered for by state governments and joint efforts of local international donors.This paper seeks to argue that the activities of Boko Haram led to destruction of properties, killing of people and also made most of them to become internally displaced without some essential needs in their camps, particularly health care for the women.To attain these objectives of this paper, a qualitative research method was adopted through which data were collected through documentary analysis.This study discovered thatwhile the government and some non-governmental institutions claimed to have provided some health care services for the gender victims in the camps, some of the victims debunked the claim.The paper therefore recommended that government and other non-governmental organizations should come to aid of the victims particularly the gender with health care services and other necessary needs for those internally displaced persons as a result of the effects of the activities of BH insurgent group.