Building Resilience: Can Nigeria Build a Stronger Health System in Tight Fiscal Times?
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Ibukun Oguntola and Kenneth Ibe (Lead writers) Nigeria is at a critical juncture in advancing health financing reforms to achieve Universal Health…
Maternal Deaths in Nigeria: When Systemic Neglect Meets Medical Complications
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Aaron Bawala (Lead writer) When my wife went into labour at night in June 2025, I was fortunate to be there to…
Sexually Transmitted Infections Are Becoming Untreatable and a New Study Shows Why
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Imole Agunbiade and Favour Solomon-Uwakwe (Lead writers) When Emeka (not his real name) began showing symptoms of a sexually transmitted infection (STI),…
Rethinking Solutions: How a Positive Deviance Lens Can Strengthen Primary Health Care
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Dr Emeka Kanebi (Lead writer) ‘Not all deviance is negative; without it, we would never change the world’ — Stacy Pershall Primary health care…
How Antimicrobial Resistance Threatens Maternal Health in Nigeria
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Chinwe Catherine Eze and Tzar Oluigbo (Lead writers) In maternity wards across sub-Saharan Africa, the battle for life is fought on two…
Why Expanding MPDSR Across Nigerian States Is Key to Ending Preventable Maternal Deaths
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Maureen Moneke (Lead writer) Every maternal or perinatal death carries two tragedies, the life lost and the lessons that go unlearned when…
The Big Push Against Malaria: Courage, Commitment, and Lessons We Cannot Ignore
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Oladimeji Solomon Yemi (Lead writer) Editor’s Note: The insights in this article draw heavily from the discussions, data, and presentations shared during…
International Day of the Girl: ‘She’ Is the Change Nigeria Needs
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Precious Ajayi (Lead writer) In Nigeria, women and girls make up 49.7% of the population. This means that nearly half of the…
Gombe Health Summit 2025: Financing Accountability as the New Frontier of Reform
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Sheriff Gbadamosi and Uche Kennedy (Lead Writers) When Gombe State’s Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, announced the full implementation of the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure…
Closing Nigeria’s Digital Readiness Gap in Epidemic Surveillance
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Over the past decade, Nigeria has made significant progress in strengthening its disease surveillance capacity, particularly through digital innovation. One of the…
Tackling Period Poverty Is Now a National Policy, But Can It Become Reality?
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Tzar Oluigbo (Lead writer) In August 2025, Nigeria made history. For the first time, menstrual health was formally recognised as a national…
Health Workers’ Impossible Workloads Are Deepening Nigeria’s Doctor-Patient Crisis
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Ibukun Oguntola and Anwuli Nwankwo (Lead writers) On September 1st, 2025, the medical community and Nigerians were shaken by the tragic news…
Nigeria’s PHC Revitalisation: Ambition, Reality, and the Urgency for Accountability
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Safiya Shuaibu Isa and Solomon Yemi Oladimeji (Lead writers) For millions of Nigerians, primary healthcare (PHC) remains the first point of contact for their…
Driving Health Reforms Through Transformational Primary Healthcare in Nasarawa
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Tzar Oluigbo (Lead writer) Primary healthcare (PHC) is the backbone of a resilient health system and should serve as the first point…