AfricaEventsHealth PolicyNigeriaThought LeadershipReality check: Pictures from around Nigeria By Nigeria Health Watch February 23, 2016 3 Mins read We often sit in the big cities and talk and write about health issues. We attend conferences and seminars, dissemination events and… Read more
AfricaDiasporaHealth PolicyNigeriaThought LeadershipTime for courage: Nigeria’s health security and the National Centre for Disease Control By Chikwe Ihekweazu February 16, 2016 4 Mins read Nigeria defeated Ebola! That was the single story. No one asked about how the N1.9B released for the response was used. What… Read more
AfricaDiasporaEventsHealth PolicyNigeriaThought LeadershipAccountability NOW: A Summit to Advance Newborn and Maternal Health in Nigeria By Nigeria Health Watch February 9, 2016 3 Mins read Editor: The National Summit on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) will take place in Abuja on February 16-18. The… Read more
AfricaDiasporaHealth PolicyNigeriaThought LeadershipWill the 2016 Health Budget fund the 2014 National Health Act? By Nigeria Health Watch February 2, 2016 6 Mins read Editor: In this week’s piece Edwin Ikhuoria of ONE Campaign reviews the 2016 Budget Proposal for Health, highlighting its inherent gaps, especially… Read more
AfricaDiasporaEventsNigeriaThought LeadershipLack of trust in health sector: the underlying cause of the large Lassa Fever outbreak in Nigeria By Chikwe Ihekweazu January 26, 2016 4 Mins read Strange deaths in a community in Niger State in 2015 left the community confused, this was followed by a period of uncertainty… Read more
AfricaDiasporaEventsNigeriaTechnologyThought Leadership‘A Beautiful Mind – Opening up about Mental Health’ at Social Media Week Lagos By Nigeria Health Watch January 19, 2016 3 Mins read On February 26, 2016, Nigeria Health Watch will partner with Asktoks.com at a Masterclass during this year’s Social Media Week Lagos, to… Read more
AfricaDiasporaEventsNigeriaThought LeadershipDear President Buhari, honour the 2001 Abuja declaration and deliver a genuinely Pro-Poor 2016 Budget By Nigeria Health Watch January 5, 2016 5 Mins read Editor: On the 19th of December 2015, we at Nigeria Health Watch joined the ONE Campaign and 24 other Non-Governmental Organisations in writing… Read more
AfricaDiasporaEventsNigeriaThought LeadershipNigeria Health Watch: Our Continuing Promise in 2016 By Nigeria Health Watch December 29, 2015 3 Mins read For each day that we have been on this journey, to put health front and centre of the political agenda in Nigeria,… Read more
AfricaDiasporaEventsNigeriaThought LeadershipProfessor Eyitayo Lambo’s ‘Tour de Force’ and Call to Action By Chikwe Ihekweazu December 22, 2015 5 Mins read On December 9th 2015, we gathered in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, for the first Public Service Lecture of the Nigerian Primary Health… Read more
AfricaEventsNigeriaThought LeadershipVisits to Health ProjectsAn assignment of Hope: An insight into living with disabilities in Nigeria By Nigeria Health Watch December 15, 2015 4 Mins read By Ebele Vivien Okoli Editor: The 3rd of December was World Disability Day. Ebele Vivien Okoli, a Resident Doctor specialising in Community… Read more
AfricaDiasporaEventsNigeriaThought LeadershipTime to engage with mental health care in Nigeria By Nigeria Health Watch December 5, 2015 4 Mins read Enyi Anosike is a Public Mental Health professional, and a trustee of the Public Health Foundation of Nigeria. He writes this special… Read more
AfricaDiasporaEventsNigeriaThought LeadershipHIV elimination goals and the reality of living with HIV in Nigeria By Chikwe Ihekweazu December 1, 2015 4 Mins read Today is World AIDS day 2015. All over the media in Nigeria, there have been reports on the new goal of the… Read more
AfricaNigeriaThought LeadershipBalancing access and excess in the fight against antibiotic resistance in Nigeria By Nigeria Health Watch November 17, 2015 3 Mins read Resistance to antibiotics is a growing global problem. It is particularly acute in Nigeria because of our extensive and often inappropriate use… Read more
AfricaDiasporaEventsNigeriaThought LeadershipBefore the SDGs, how did Nigeria really do with the MDGs? By Chikwe Ihekweazu November 10, 2015 4 Mins read In August 2015, reports emerged in the Nigerian press that “Nigeria had attained the Millennium Development Goals”. The article below quoted the… Read more