Good report - BUT how do we move from reports to impact
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Every year our Federal Ministry of Health, and the multitude of development partners at its service produce hundreds of reports about their plans and…
A short letter to our presidential candidates
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Dear Presidential Candidates, While you argue about the most banal issues such as zoning arrangements, single or double terms, north and south etc and all…
River Blindness: an emerging success story and the Nigerian lady that drove it...
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Those that went to medical school in the University of Nigeria in 90s will remember an articulate, passionate and scholarly teacher we…
Will 2011 see an awakening in our Ministry of Health
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2010 has been a difficult year for keeping tabs on our Federal Ministry of Health. We have our 3rd Minister of Health…
At Christmas we are "Only As Strong As Our Weakest Point"
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Dear Friends, What a year it has been. This year we have struggled on what to reflect on. We wondered whether to…
Bringing our health data to life!
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For a long time, our leaders have taken Nigerians for a ride, quoting astronomical amounts of money for delivering nothing. One major…
Thank you to three extraordinary senior colleagues
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As part of the Second Nigeria: Partnership for Health Conference that held in London on the 6th of November, the Public Health…
The conference - Nigeria: Partnership for Health
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On the 6th November 2010, over 150 colleagues working in different capacities within the Nigerian health sector assembled at the beautiful facilities of…
They don't get it - our Senators and our health
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Anyone following Nigerian politics will have seen the uproar in the press when the the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Lamido…
24 Hours to Nigeria: Partnership for Health II
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Dear Friends, You will have noticed that things have been a bit slow on the blog lately. We have been busy putting…
Nigeria: Partnership for Health - a conference on health in Nigeria.
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by Ike Anya (This post was first published on BMJ blogs) A major milestone passed in October this year, when Nigerians marked 50…
Polio in Nigeria - An emerging success story
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Vaccinations are celebrated as one of the miracles of modern medicine. In the past 50 years, it has saved more lives worldwide…
Twitter and Nigeria Health Watch
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Long before we started blogging, we would copy and paste the few stories on health from the Nigerian press on emails, and…
Cry my beloved Nigeria
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I cannot forget reading the epic “Cry the beloved country” in my early teens, and the impact it had on my life….