Top Ten News Items on Health, 3rd September 2021
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NCDC boss, Ihekweazu, gets WHO job. FG plans compulsory COVID-19 vaccination for civil servants – SGF. Nigeria hard-hit as 2,035 die of…
Now We Have More COVID-19 Vaccines in Nigeria: Time to Deliver
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After the successful deployment of the first round of vaccines received from the COVAX facility in March 2021, Nigeria has received its…
Spotlight Initiative: Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls in Nigeria Through Surveillance
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Anthonia Obokoh (Lead Writer) Any form of violence against women and girls is a human rights violation. Based on World Health Organisation…
State of Emergency: The Doctors' Strike and the Brain Drain of the Health Care Workforce
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In 2019, when my father was in the Intensive Care Unit of one of Nigeria’s biggest tertiary hospitals in the Federal Capital…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 27th August 2021
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NPHCDA sets Wednesday to begin the second dose of AstraZeneca vaccine. Resident doctors hold NEC meeting, resolve to continue strike. FG orders…
Latest Health Jobs In Nigeria Published On 26th August 2021
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National Consultant to support the Tricycle surveillance Project in Nigeria, WHO, Abuja, deadline 3rd September 2021. Apply SME Training Manual Consultant, Management…
Improving Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Nigeria: The Only Language Cholera Understands
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Nigeria is prone to seasonal disease outbreaks and in the last few years, a series of outbreaks including monkeypox, measles, Lassa fever,…
Lessons from Oleju: Improving Equality & Efficiency in Achieving Health for All
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Gender inequality constitutes a major barrier to realising equitable access to health-care services. Promoting gender equality is a major component in promoting…
Access Bank spotlights issues around blood donation with Employee Volunteering Scheme
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In a bid to address issues surrounding the low rates of blood donation in the country, the Corporate Communications Group of Access…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 20th August 2021
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WHO alerts to fake COVID-19 vaccines as FG receives more doses, begins vaccination. COVID-19: FG seeks private sector’s support for vaccine production….
Latest Health Jobs In Nigeria Published On 19th August 2021
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Public Health Administrative Management Specialist – All Interested Candidates (Cooperative Agreements), US Embassy, Abuja, deadline 24th August 2021, Apply Operations Manager, APIN…
My Body, My Choice: Promoting Bodily Autonomy and Gender Equality in Nigeria
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Zainab was only 11 years old when she became the fourth wife of a 42-year-old cobbler in her community. She is from…
Healthy Mother, Healthy Child: Encouraging ANC, PMTCT uptake in Akwa Ibom State
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By Kelechukwu Iruoma (Lead Writer) Eme Okon was two months pregnant with her third child when she started attending antenatal care (ANC)…
Getting COVID-19 Shots in Arms: A Vaccine Rollout in Nigeria Like Nothing Before
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By Gabriel Oke and Kenni Ndili (Lead Writers) In December 2020, the first COVID-19 vaccine was issued emergency use authorisation (EUA) by…