The “Trovan” story by Idris Mohammed
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Dr Idris Mohamed was the Chairman of the Taskforce of the Federal Republic of Nigeria sent to manage the Outbreak of Cerebrospinal…
Academics, Epidemics and Politics: a book by Idris Mohammed
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There are several reasons why this blog has been a bit slow over the past 2 weeks. One of of them is…
Meetings of Nigerians at the last 4 International AIDS conferences
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by chikwe ihekweazu and ike anya At all of the previous four international conferences on AIDS that we have attended, there are…
Preparing for Mexico: Another International AIDS conference
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by chikwe ihekweazu and ike anya Every other year, the HIV/AIDS ‘community’, an odd mixture of scientists, youth, community workers, activists, politicians,…
Lagos State...really leading the way
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Much has been written about the new Government of Lagos State under its unlikely Governor Babtunde Raji Fashola. Much has been said…
Bring Back the Community Health Clinics!
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While we wait for all the new Health minister and the anticipated utopia that would follow, it would be nice to add…
MSF and Nigeria...joint at birth
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by chikwe ihekweazu I recently attended the Scientific Day of Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors without boarders) in London where they presented some…
The House that Jack built !
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by ndubuisi edeoga While we all wait patiently for the new Nigerian Health minister, and we form our opinions about his/her job…
On the regulation of Nigerian health professionals
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An anonymous commentator on the last post mentioned that the next Minister must put in place a regulatory body to which health…
Minister of Health for Nigeria: A Job Description
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….if I was looking…this is what I would be looking for: With the Ministry of Finance and the Attorney Generals Office, the…
Behold our finest public hospital
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We have previously written a blog titled: National Hospital Abuja: Unrealised Expectations. Pls read it to put the rest of the blog…
Lagos State...really leading the way
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Much has been written about the new Government of Lagos State under its unlikely Governor Babtunde Raji Fashola. Much has been said…
DFID launches PATHS II in Nigeria
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The UK Department for International Development has just launched the second phase of the Partnerships for Transforming Health Systems in Nigeria. The…
Who will cast the first stone?
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by ndubuisi edeogaIt seems everywhere I look its always bad news coming from Nigeria, bad news about Nigeria and an even worse…