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Chikwe Ihekweazu

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Chikwe Ihekweazu is an epidemiologist and consultant public health physician. He is the Editor of Nigeria Health Watch, and the Managing Partner of EpiAfric (www.epiafric.com), which provides expertise in public health research and advisory services, health communication and professional development. He previously held leadership roles at the South African National Institute for Communicable Diseases and the UK's Health Protection Agency. Chikwe has undertaken several short term consultancies for the World Health Organisation, mainly in response to major outbreaks. He is a TED Fellow and co-curator of TEDxEuston.
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Back to Durban, for the International Conference on AIDS

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
July 12, 2016
5 Mins read
I have profound memories of the 13th International AIDS Conference that was held in Durban, South Africa, in July 2000. I was…
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Making our Voices Count: Active Citizenship for Health

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
April 20, 2016
2 Mins read
We can see from other sectors in Nigeria, how active citizenship is driving change. From the elections, to the increased responsiveness of…
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On World Tuberculosis Day - Reflections on a Forgotten Epidemic

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
March 22, 2016
4 Mins read
March 24 is World TB Day, yet for most people that have the privilege of reading this piece, tuberculosis is an abstract…
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Nigerian health policy makers gather in Sokoto for the 58th National Council on Health

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
March 15, 2016
6 Mins read
Once every year, the Ministers of Health, leaders of all the health parastatals, and the commissioners of health and their teams gather…
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Memiliki Agen Bandarqq Online Popular Indonesia

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
February 26, 2016
2 Mins read
Dapatkan Agen Bandarqq Online Terbesar Indonesia! Bandarqq menjadi sebuah permainan yang selalu menjadi pembahasan mengagumkan. Selain karena mudah & sangat simpel, permainan…
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Time for courage: Nigeria’s health security and the National Centre for Disease Control

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
February 16, 2016
4 Mins read
Nigeria defeated Ebola! That was the single story. No one asked about how the N1.9B released for the response was used. What…
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Lack of trust in health sector: the underlying cause of the large Lassa Fever outbreak in Nigeria

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
January 26, 2016
4 Mins read
Strange deaths in a community in Niger State in 2015 left the community confused, this was followed by a period of uncertainty…
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Professor Eyitayo Lambo’s ‘Tour de Force’ and Call to Action

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
December 22, 2015
5 Mins read
On December 9th 2015, we gathered in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, for the first Public Service Lecture of the Nigerian Primary Health…
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HIV elimination goals and the reality of living with HIV in Nigeria

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
December 1, 2015
4 Mins read
Today is World AIDS day 2015. All over the media in Nigeria, there have been reports on the new goal of the…
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Before the SDGs, how did Nigeria really do with the MDGs?

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
November 10, 2015
4 Mins read
In August 2015, reports emerged in the Nigerian press that “Nigeria had attained the Millennium Development Goals”.  The article below quoted the…
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One year later, 5 most important lessons from the Nigerian Ebola response

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
October 20, 2015
6 Mins read
On October 20 2014, almost exactly one year ago, the World Health Organisation declared Nigeria Ebola free, 42 days after the last…
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Health Watch Forum opens with a celebration of Nigerian heroes

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
October 13, 2015
4 Mins read
In September 2014, the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone was getting worse by the day.  Nigeria had managed to…
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What you need to know about the Yobe eye drops Story

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
September 8, 2015
6 Mins read
This is a follow up story to the public service announcement concerning the misuse of Chlorhexidine digluconate 7.1% solution packaged as eye…
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Three reasons Strikes will continue in Nigeria's Health Sector

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
September 1, 2015
4 Mins read
No part of public service in Nigeria has experienced more strikes than the health sector. Right now, public tertiary hospitals in Nigeria…
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