Strengthening Nigeria’s Primary Health System with Lessons from Ethiopia
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Precious Ajayi (Lead writer) On 22 October 2025, Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare approved and released 32.9 billion Naira…
Within the Lines: Komfot Health Provides Life-Saving Post-Abortion Care Amid Nigeria’s Unclear Laws
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Chinonso Kenneth (Lead writer) When Cecilia Ahmadu began bleeding heavily, three days after performing a self-induced abortion, she knew something had gone…
Building Resilience: Can Nigeria Build a Stronger Health System in Tight Fiscal Times?
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Ibukun Oguntola and Kenneth Ibe (Lead writers) Nigeria is at a critical juncture in advancing health financing reforms to achieve Universal Health…
Eviction of Tirikania’s Rented PHC Could Endanger 4,000 Women
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Rabi Mustapha (Lead Writer) The night Maryam Abubakar, a resident of Tirikania, went to receive care at her nearest Primary Healthcare Centre…
Global Health Leaders Unite in Bogotá to Confront Rights and Funding Challenges
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The world’s largest sexual and reproductive health conference, ICFP 2025, will spotlightevidence-based solutions advancing access, equity, and autonomy worldwide. Amid the biggest…
Maternal Deaths in Nigeria: When Systemic Neglect Meets Medical Complications
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Aaron Bawala (Lead writer) When my wife went into labour at night in June 2025, I was fortunate to be there to…
Sexually Transmitted Infections Are Becoming Untreatable and a New Study Shows Why
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Imole Agunbiade and Favour Solomon-Uwakwe (Lead writers) When Emeka (not his real name) began showing symptoms of a sexually transmitted infection (STI),…
Nigeria Health Watch, Premium Times and Punch to Host Webinar on Investing in Health in a Limited Fiscal Space
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As Nigeria strives to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and strengthen its health system, the need for sustainable, domestically driven health financing…
Leaking Roofs, Broken Walls: Inside Kakau PHC’s Struggle to Give Care
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By Margaret Joseph As the rain heavily poured one afternoon in Kakau, patients huddled together in corners, clutching their children and belongings,…
Rethinking Solutions: How a Positive Deviance Lens Can Strengthen Primary Health Care
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Dr Emeka Kanebi (Lead writer) ‘Not all deviance is negative; without it, we would never change the world’ — Stacy Pershall Primary health care…
Your eDokta Will See You Now: A Telemedicine Clinic is Bridging Maternal Health Gaps in Kano
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Mahdi Garba (Lead writer) Salamatu Yusuf, a resident of Yanoko in Tofa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano remembers how she used…
Nigeria Health Watch to host the First Solutions Journalism Africa Summit
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For decades, media coverage of Africa has been dominated by a narrow and often negative lens, focusing largely on poverty, hunger, corruption,…