How perceived side effects of contraceptives hampers family planning in Nigeria
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Editor’s Note: This week’s blog comes from Nigeria Health Watch team member Dara Ajala-Damisa. She writes about choosing a family planning method…
Isolate, trace and respond: How a new emergency operations centre has improved outbreak response in Kebbi
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Dr. Assad Hassan had just graduated from the prestigious Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (NFELTP) when he received the urgent…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 10th May 2019
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‘Midwives championing women’s rights to quality health care’. ‘Nigeria still at moderate risk of Ebola outbreak’. #PHC4UHC: Etsu Nupe laments medical tourism…
Generation Next: Nigeria is failing young people's need for sexual health services
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Editor’s Note: This week’s Thought Leadership blog comes from Precious Ereka, a Youth Service Corps Member serving at Nigeria Health Watch. She…
Crib A'Glow: Saving tiny hearts in the FCT through technology
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Placed on a hospital cupboard about two meters from the ground, the little box glows with a brilliant blue light, beautiful in…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 3rd May 2019
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‘103 senators’ salary enough to vaccinate over 1 million Nigerian children’. Community health programme to be replicated across Nigeria by December –…
Latest Health Jobs In Nigeria Published On 3rd May 2019
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Marketing and Brand Communications Manager, Total Health Trust Limited (THT), Lagos, deadline 7th May, 2019. Apply for this job Procurement & Operations…
Money for Midwives: Will the BHCPF solve Midwifery's Funding Woes?
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Nigeria’s Minister of Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige, recently made waves when he asserted that he was not worried about doctors leaving Nigeria,…
Immunisation Protects Our Herd: Nigeria Health Watch Forum 2019
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Immunisation is a clear success story and its value in preventing and curtailing infectious diseases cannot be overemphasised. It prevents an estimated…
Latest Health Jobs In Nigeria Published On 27th April 2019
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Health Officer, NO-B, UNICEF, Bauchi, deadline 10th May, 2019. Apply for this job State Malaria Service Delivery Expert, Malaria Consortium, Jigawa, Katsina,…
Nigeria: The long crawl to polio eradication - Op-Ed
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Editor’s Note: Today’s piece is an OpEd from renowned Virologist and Chair of Nigeria Expert Review Committee on Poliomyelitis Eradication and Routine…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 26th April 2019
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African Vaccination Week: Nigeria to conduct mass immunisation. Malaria kills 81,640, infects 53.7m yearly in Nigeria. 21.1m children denied first dose of…
Health Watch Forum 2019 - Prevent Epidemics: Immunise
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Immunisation is key to preventing epidemics across the world. According to UNICEF, immunisation is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions…
“No woman must die giving life - making every maternal death count”
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The “Giving Birth In Nigeria” project in Kebbi, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Ebonyi, Lagos, Niger and the FCT is to understand why women die…