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125,000 people living with HIV are accessing antiretrovirals in Nigeria

November 1, 2007

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In 2001, the Nigerian Government government declared an ambitious national treatment antiretroviral target (the drug treatment for HIV/AIDS) to reach 100,000 people…

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Nigerian Doctors in the UK meet

By Nigeria Health Watch

October 24, 2007

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The Medical Association of Nigerian Specialists and General Practitioners (MANSAG) is holding its annual conference and general meeting this weekend. For details…

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Why children continue to die from a disease that can be prevented with 50 cents!

By Chikwe Ihekweazu

October 21, 2007

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…Our inability to raise coverage of routine immunisation in Nigeria remains one of the biggest scandals of our age. Huge outbreaks are…

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Nigerian Health Minister in London and other updates

By Chikwe Ihekweazu

October 16, 2007

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Recently we blogged about the appointment of Professor Adenike Grange as Minister of Health and the enthusiastic response in the Nigerian health…

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Health stories from the papers in September

By Chikwe Ihekweazu

October 15, 2007

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Find a few health stories from the papers in September…nothing ground breaking but the first one could be very significant…read on! ThisDay:…

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Oh No...just how do we communicate this?

By Chikwe Ihekweazu

October 8, 2007

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Like many on this forum will know, Nigeria has come to be closely associated with the near collapse of the Global Polio…

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Doctors in power: We are proud!

By Chikwe Ihekweazu

October 4, 2007

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Since restoration of democracy in Nigeria in 1999, we in the medical profession have been extremely lucky to have some of our…

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Health minister calls for probe of donor funds

By Nigeria Health Watch

September 26, 2007

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Without wanting to sound like an inveterate praise singer, Professor Grange gets it right again, calling for a probe of her ministry’s…

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Kanu Heart Foundation: Proving sceptics wrong

By Chikwe Ihekweazu

September 21, 2007

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The Kanu Heart Foundation is often in the the news …and rightly so! When Kanu set up his foundation in 2002 and…

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Information is power? Keeping it hidden is also powerful!

By Chikwe Ihekweazu

September 7, 2007

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A lot of interesting bilateral health related initiatives seem to be happening behind the scenes in Nigeria. One is reassured by the…

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Health in the News in August: Beautiful, Bad and Ugly

By Chikwe Ihekweazu

September 4, 2007

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The press was full of interesting health related news articles out of Nigeria in August. Find a summary attached. Maybe there is…

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Grange unveils plans

By Nigeria Health Watch

September 2, 2007

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The optimism surrounding the recent appointment of Professor Adenike Grange as health minister seems justified looking at recent reports. In her first…

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