From Zero to Six: Can breastfeeding our babies accelerate Nigeria’s development? #WBWNG2018
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Every first week of August Nigeria joins the rest of the world to commemorate World Breastfeeding Week. Yet, if statistics are anything to go…
Ground-breaking health partnership to expand across Kwara State
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The ground-breaking partnership between the Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), Johnson & Johnson and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is set to expand…
Lessons for Bida: Three approaches that may solve Niger state’s public sanitation dilemma
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The Katsina family of Bida will probably never forget June 20th 2018. Just before 8 p.m. on that day, Mr. Farouk Katsina…
NCDC, PHN partner with private sector towards ending epidemics in Nigeria
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria (PHN), have launched a new initiative –…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 3rd August 2018
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Cluster of presumptive Ebola cases in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nigeria launches initiative to protect patients’ rights. FG set…
Latest Health Jobs in Nigeria Published on 2nd August 2018
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Protection Project Manager, COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale, Borno, deadline 13th August, 2018. Apply for this job Medical Adviser, Ophtha & Specialty, Novartis…
Face to face with Nigeria’s ailing emergency health system: One daughter’s story
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Editor’s Note: This week’s blog comes from a Nigeria Health Watch team member. She writes about coming head to head with the…
Before the first impact: How your little actions can save lives on Nigerian roads
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On Monday, February 10, 2014, Mr. Celestine Chima kissed his two children, seven-year-old Goodluck and five-year-old Goodness goodbye and stepped out of…
Top Ten News Items On Health, 27th July 2018
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Ebola outbreak in DRC ends: WHO calls for international efforts to stop other deadly outbreaks in the country. Over 5,000 Nigerian doctors…
Latest Health Jobs in Nigeria Published On 26th July 2018
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NPO – Surveillance, World Health Organization (WHO), Rivers, deadline 8th August, 2018. Apply for this job TA Health Specialist (Immunization), UNICEF, Bauchi,…
Gasping for Air: Doctor’s death exposes inherent risks of Nigerian public hospitals
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By Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor and Patience Adejo (Lead Writers) Editor’s Note: On the 19th of June, 2018, headlines of Nigerian newspapers carried…
On World Sickle Cell Day, ASH takes action to improve global health outcomes
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American Society of Hematology (ASH), with the Sickle Cell Disease Coalition, debuts videos that shed light on the global state of sickle…
How “SatComms Tablets” are reviving primary healthcare in Kano State
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A few mothers are seated with the Health Officer-in-Charge of Sumaila Yamma Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC), who has just finished post-natal counseling….
Leadership Enhancement and Accountability for the Public Sector (LEAPS) Programme
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The LEAPS programme is a nine-month capacity building programme for senior management of health governance agencies. The programme focuses on building the…