Top Ten News Items on Health, 15th December 2017
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Adewole: Nigeria is Committed to Universal Health Coverage. Senate moves to ensure mandatory health insurance, subsidy for poor. Over 600 doctors migrated from Nigeria…
Nigeria Health Jobs Published on 14th December, 2017
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Medical Doctor For Emergency Team, Médecins Sans Frontières, Abuja, deadline 13th December, 2017. Details here Deputy Team Leader– Programme Operations, Save the…
Universal Health Coverage and the role of “marketers” for health in Nigeria
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On December 12, the world celebrates Universal Health Coverage Day to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the unanimous United Nations resolution calling…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 08 December 2017
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Time to improve Nigeria’s Maternal, Child Health Service Delivery. FG Inaugurates N28bn Special Health Intervention Projects. National Hospital Inaugurates Cancer Treatment Center. GAVI approves support…
Chatham House Paper: Continued medical detentions are ‘degrading and abusive’
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A new Chatham House paper suggests medical detentions – where hospitals forcibly detain patients unable to pay their medical bills – are…
Time for Nigeria to own its HIV response
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In a small cramped room in a village in Nigeria, sits a little girl called ‘Mary’ (not her real name). Her father…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 01 December 2017
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Sustaining free HIV treatment in Nigeria. New dawn as senate set to implement National Health Act. Minister inaugurates 26 national advocates on health, family…
Misery in the midst of plenty: Can knowledge undo Nigeria’s malnutrition tragedy?
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In September, as part of a campaign to highlight the issues around malnutrition amongst children under 5 in Nigeria, Nigeria Health Watch…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 24th November 2017
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Osinbajo Inaugurates National Council On Nutrition. NCDC launches five-year plan on disease control. Only one-third of Nigerians in need of HIV treatment are getting…
Nigeria Health Jobs Published on 23rd November, 2017
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Epidemiologist/Health Information Management, World Health Organization, Borno, deadline 30th November, 2017. Details here Infant And Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Officer, Action Against…
Nigeria commences 2017 World AIDS Day commemoration
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Events to commemorate the 2017 World AIDS Day have commenced with a call on all stakeholders to work towards realising the right…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 17th November 2017
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Indiscriminate use of antibiotics now global health threat – Experts. Nigeria infant mortality rate falls — UNICEF, Statistics Bureau. NMA raises alarm as…
Antibiotic resistance is everybody’s business: World Antibiotics Awareness Week is Nov. 13-17
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Editor’s Note: In view of Antibiotics Awareness Week, which is November 13-19, 2017, guest columnist Iruka N Okeke, of the Faculty of…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 10 November 2017
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Health sector an important driver of economic growth –Adewole. Kano Govt. releases N294m for treatment of malnourished children. This Day, 06 November 2017 Dangote…