**7. Challenges to the development and implementation of these strategies**

Major obstacles to the development and implementation of effective strategies to reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease among adolescents and youth in Nigeria is as a result of lack of knowledge, ineffective use of available and accessible resources, a dearth of sturdy population-level health and mortality data, insufficient financing for health and health care, suboptimal deployment of available health funding to support health services, and large population inequities [104]. According to Obansa and Orimisan, [105] inadequate laboratory facilities, a lack of basic infrastructure and equipment, poor human resource management, poor pay and motivation, a lack of fair and sustainable health care financing, and unequal and unjust economic and political relations between Nigeria and developed nations are just a few of the major factors that have an impact on the health system's overall contribution to economic growth and development in Nigeria.
