Reality check: Pictures from around Nigeria
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We often sit in the big cities and talk and write about health issues. We attend conferences and seminars, dissemination events and…
Time for courage: Nigeria’s health security and the National Centre for Disease Control
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Nigeria defeated Ebola! That was the single story. No one asked about how the N1.9B released for the response was used. What…
Accountability NOW: A Summit to Advance Newborn and Maternal Health in Nigeria
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Editor: The National Summit on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) will take place in Abuja on February 16-18. The…
Will the 2016 Health Budget fund the 2014 National Health Act?
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Editor: In this week’s piece Edwin Ikhuoria of ONE Campaign reviews the 2016 Budget Proposal for Health, highlighting its inherent gaps, especially…
Lack of trust in health sector: the underlying cause of the large Lassa Fever outbreak in Nigeria
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Strange deaths in a community in Niger State in 2015 left the community confused, this was followed by a period of uncertainty…
‘A Beautiful Mind – Opening up about Mental Health’ at Social Media Week Lagos
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On February 26, 2016, Nigeria Health Watch will partner with Asktoks.com at a Masterclass during this year’s Social Media Week Lagos, to…
Dear President Buhari, honour the 2001 Abuja declaration and deliver a genuinely Pro-Poor 2016 Budget
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Editor: On the 19th of December 2015, we at Nigeria Health Watch joined the ONE Campaign and 24 other Non-Governmental Organisations in writing…
Nigeria Health Watch: Our Continuing Promise in 2016
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For each day that we have been on this journey, to put health front and centre of the political agenda in Nigeria,…
Professor Eyitayo Lambo’s ‘Tour de Force’ and Call to Action
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On December 9th 2015, we gathered in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, for the first Public Service Lecture of the Nigerian Primary Health…
An assignment of Hope: An insight into living with disabilities in Nigeria
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By Ebele Vivien Okoli Editor: The 3rd of December was World Disability Day. Ebele Vivien Okoli, a Resident Doctor specialising in Community…
Time to engage with mental health care in Nigeria
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Enyi Anosike is a Public Mental Health professional, and a trustee of the Public Health Foundation of Nigeria. He writes this special…
HIV elimination goals and the reality of living with HIV in Nigeria
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Today is World AIDS day 2015. All over the media in Nigeria, there have been reports on the new goal of the…
Balancing access and excess in the fight against antibiotic resistance in Nigeria
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Resistance to antibiotics is a growing global problem. It is particularly acute in Nigeria because of our extensive and often inappropriate use…
Before the SDGs, how did Nigeria really do with the MDGs?
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In August 2015, reports emerged in the Nigerian press that “Nigeria had attained the Millennium Development Goals”. The article below quoted the…