#Innovate4HealthNaija: Improving Healthcare Access at the Future of Health Conference 2020
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Innovation is a term used to spur big business into evolving their way out of oblivion. In healthcare, refusal to innovate could…
Virtual Nutrition Conference: Harnessing Innovative Financing Options for Nutrition – Unraveling the Bottlenecks
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Response committees set up to address the COVID-19 pandemic in many instances have sidelined existing structures that champion nutrition and food security….
Health Watch Forum 2019 - Prevent Epidemics: Immunise
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Immunisation is key to preventing epidemics across the world. According to UNICEF, immunisation is one of the most cost-effective public health interventions…
Health Policy Dialogue 2019: Disrupting Health Care
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T he health policy dialogue titled ‘Disrupting Health Care: PPPs as a Model Adoption for Health System Strengthening’ demonstrated how public-private partnerships…
Five takeaways of the 69th World Health Assembly from a Nigerian Perspective
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The 69th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization held between the 23rd and 28th of May in Geneva. It had…
Special Edition: Conference brings attention to Tuberculosis in Nigeria
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In the week that a major announcement was made by WHO shortening the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, the scientific community is coming together…
Five big issues at the International Conference of Midwives in Abuja
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May 5 was this year’s International Day of the Midwife. To commemorate this day in Nigeria, The Wellbeing Foundation Africa, UNFPA,…
Stronger together – increasing effectiveness of advocacy in the Nigerian health sector
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The room was almost full at 8 a.m., as advocates, leaders of civil society organisations and senior government officials gathered in Abuja…
Making our Voices Count: Active Citizenship for Health
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We can see from other sectors in Nigeria, how active citizenship is driving change. From the elections, to the increased responsiveness of…
Nigerian health policy makers gather in Sokoto for the 58th National Council on Health
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Once every year, the Ministers of Health, leaders of all the health parastatals, and the commissioners of health and their teams gather…
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…
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…
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…