Antenatal Care Is Leaving Pregnant Women Without Basic Nutrition Advice in Nigeria
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Sheriff Gbadamosi and Favour Ani (Lead writers) On a humid afternoon in Kano State, a group of women sat in a circle…
How Tech-Enabled Emergency Financing Is Helping Nigerian Families Access Care
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Mahdi Garba and Hadiza Mohammed (Lead writers) Nigeria’s population is projected to exceed 237.5 million by 2025. However, the country’s health financing system…
Bridging Nigeria’s Research–Industry Gap to Establish Local Premix Production for Food Fortification
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Favour Solomon-Uwakwe and Maureen Moneke (Lead writers) At the Academia–Micronutrient Deficiency Control (MNDC) Committee Roundtable on “Advancing Sustainable Food Fortification in Nigeria:…
“It Felt Like We Lost Everything Again”: Gurjiya PHC Faces New Challenge After Solar Battery Theft
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Hafsat Bello Just weeks after the Gurjiya Primary Health Care (PHC) renovation, a newly installed solar battery, which helped power the facility,…
At Birth and at Risk: The Rising Threat of AMR in Nigeria’s Neonatal Wards
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Anwuli Nwankwo and Ibukun Oguntola (Lead writers) Every year in Nigeria, thousands of newborns die from infections that should have been preventable, yet the microbes…
Nigeria Must Not Let Child Nutrition Become a Budget Casualty in 2026
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Favour Ani and Safiya Shuaibu Isa (Lead writers) In a stabilisation ward (a specialised treatment unit for severe malnutrition) in northern Nigeria,…
How Community Trust Is Improving Girls’ Sexual and Reproductive Health Education in Abuja Schools
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Hadiza Mohammed and Onyedikachi Ewe (Lead writers) Success, 13, did not panic when she got her first period. ‘I was educated early,’…
Curated Conversations: Dr Pavel Ursu on Nigeria’s Primary Health Care Reform, Financing, and UHC
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Ibukun Oguntola and Chinwendu Iroegbu (Lead writers) In this latest edition of Nigeria Health Watch’s Curated Conversations, the Country Representative of the…
Without 24-Hour Service, Shuwaki PHC Improvements Fall Short of Better Care
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The improvement at Shuwaki Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) has offered hope for the community, but without 24-hour services, many patients are still…
The System Eats Our People: A Poem of Grief and Rage
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A poem by Dr. Ebere Okereke – Inspired by Kwesi Brew’s “The Sea Eats Our Land” Dr Ebere Okereke wrote this poem…
How Insecurity is Reshaping Food Security and Deepening Malnutrition in Nigeria
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Zubaida Baba Ibrahim and Precious Ajayi (Lead writers) Nigeria recorded an estimated 14,000 cases of armed violence between 2018 and 2024. During…