From Majalisa to Households: MSI Nigeria is Advancing Child Spacing Awareness in Kano
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Mahdi Garba and Kenneth Ibe (Lead writers) Kano State has one of the highest fertility rates in Nigeria, at about 5.8 births…
International Day of the Girl: ‘She’ Is the Change Nigeria Needs
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Precious Ajayi (Lead writer) In Nigeria, women and girls make up 49.7% of the population. This means that nearly half of the…
Gombe Health Summit 2025: Financing Accountability as the New Frontier of Reform
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Sheriff Gbadamosi and Uche Kennedy (Lead Writers) When Gombe State’s Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, announced the full implementation of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure…
An Uncompleted PHC Leaves Sabon Gayan Community Struggling
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Margaret Zichat Joseph (Lead Writer) On a rainy afternoon, Nurse Comfort John rushed to cover patient files with plastic bags as water…
Closing Nigeria’s Digital Readiness Gap in Epidemic Surveillance
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Over the past decade, Nigeria has made significant progress in strengthening its disease surveillance capacity, particularly through digital innovation. One of the…
How PHC Accountability Tracka Is Empowering Communities to Demand Better Healthcare
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Prudence Enema and Hadiza Mohammed (Lead Writers) In Maitumbi, a community in Niger State, mothers continue to give birth on mats laid…
DRASA Health Trust Marks 10 Years of Impact With Bold Vision for the Future
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Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh (DRASA) Health Trust is celebrating its 10th anniversary, marking a decade of developing Health Champions, supporting Nigeria’s health…
Tackling Period Poverty Is Now a National Policy, But Can It Become Reality?
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Tzar Oluigbo (Lead writer) In August 2025, Nigeria made history. For the first time, menstrual health was formally recognised as a national…
Health Workers’ Impossible Workloads Are Deepening Nigeria’s Doctor-Patient Crisis
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Ibukun Oguntola and Anwuli Nwankwo (Lead writers) On September 1st, 2025, the medical community and Nigerians were shaken by the tragic news…
A Year of Progress at Kofar Fada PHC, Kano State, But the Work Is Not Done
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Hadiza Musa (Lead Writer) According to Malam Isa Muhammad Abbas, the Chief Imam of Wudil, the women in the community feel uncomfortable…
Nigeria’s PHC Revitalisation: Ambition, Reality, and the Urgency for Accountability
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Safiya Shuaibu Isa and Solomon Yemi Oladimeji (Lead writers) For millions of Nigerians, primary healthcare (PHC) remains the first point of contact for their…
HeliumCredit is Financing Africa’s Private Clinics, One Loan at a Time
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Tzar Oluigbo (Lead writer) Across Nigeria, many privately-owned healthcare facilities face funding bottleneck. Pharmacies watch their shelves empty as they struggle to…