A Different Kind of Charity; Empowering Orphanages to Fight Malnutrition in the FCT
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Orphanages are not uncommon in Nigeria and across different parts of the globe. The United Nations Convention on the rights of the…
Top Ten News Items On Health, 13th April 2019
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Addressing care challenges requires multi-sectoral approach. Embracing PPP key to developing Nigerian healthcare system – Wada. Nigeria to establish emergency centre to…
Mothers Lives Matter – A Call to Action to Catalyse Accountability for Maternal Deaths in Nigeria
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“In Rwanda, a combination of community-based health insurance, community health workers, and good external partnerships led to the steepest reductions in maternal…
Health Policy Dialogue 2019: Disrupting Health Care
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T he health policy dialogue titled ‘Disrupting Health Care: PPPs as a Model Adoption for Health System Strengthening’ demonstrated how public-private partnerships…
Babymigo: How a Genius Company in Lagos is empowering mums using tech
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Ever wondered how a Nigerian startup came to be listed as one of Time Magazine’s 50 Genius Companies of 2018, standing alongside…
Statement by WHO Director-General on World Health Day 2019
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WHO was born on 7 April 1948 with a clear and ambitious vision: a world in which all people enjoy the highest…
Top Ten News Items On Health, 5th April 2019
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Nigeria Loses Over N400bn On Annual Basis To Medical Tourism — Buhari. ACPN tasks NAFDAC on stricter regulation, fake drugs, open markets…
Latest Health Jobs In Nigeria Published On 5th April 2019
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Director of Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning, Chemonics International, Nigeria, deadline 28th May, 2019. Apply for this job State Team Leader, Management Sciences…
Fighting Fake Drugs Is Fighting For Universal Health Coverage: World Health Day 2019 – Op-Ed
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Editor’s Note: This week’s Op-Ed comes from Howard Catton, CEO of The International Council of Nurses (ICN). Ahead of World Health Day…
1 in 4 health care facilities lacks basic water services – UNICEF, WHO
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3 APRIL 2019| GENEVA | NEW YORK – One in four health care facilities around the world lacks basic water services, impacting over…
Drops of refreshing dew: The Centre bridging the gap for special needs children in Abuja
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It’s a bright sunny afternoon in Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja, and in a small bungalow in a highbrow Maitama estate, about…
Top Ten News Items On Health, 29th March 2019
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World TB Day: Experts want more funding to fight disease in Nigeria. Diseases cost Africa $2.4 trillion a year – WHO. Sustaining…
It’s not Typhoid – Tackling misdiagnosis of Typhoid fever in Nigeria
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Editor’s Note: This week’s blog is a personal story from a Nigeria Health Watch team member, Patience Adejo. She writes about her…
Widely used malaria treatment to prevent malaria in pregnant women at risk of failing in areas where drug resistance is rising
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LIVERPOOL – OXFORD, 25 March 2019 A global team of researchers, led by a team at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine…