What Must Nigeria do to Achieve Zero Hunger by 2030?
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By Michael Atima and Olayemi Amusile (Lead Writers) The world is currently grappling with a severe food crisis. In 2021, 2.3 billion…
HealthForAll in Nigeria: Four Key Milestones to Build Resilient Health Systems for Universal Health Coverage
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Every year on the 7th of April, the World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates World Health Day (WHD), a day set aside to…
Accessing Quality Maternal Health Care in Niger State: Women's Voices for Action
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By Ohanu Dabri Olohije and Oluoma Omeje (Lead Writers) Despite decades of commitments, prioritisation and investments, Nigeria continues to grapple with preventable…
The NHIA's Leadership Development Programme: Fostering Effective Leadership
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Effective leadership is key to sustainable change, and that is why the NHIA instituted the Leadership Development Programme in collaboration with Results…
World Tuberculosis Day 2023: Yes, We Can End TB
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By Ibe Kenneth and Chibuike Alagboso (Lead Writers) Zainab (not her real name) first learned about latent tuberculosis (TB) when she was…
World Water Day 2023: Accelerating Change to Solve the Water and Sanitation Crisis
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By Onyinye Oranezi and Hadiza Mohammed (Lead Writers) As the saying goes, “Water is life”. However, one could rephrase it to say-”Adequate…
Young, Positive and Resilient: Stories of Young People Living With HIV/AIDS In Nigeria
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By Kenneth Ibe, Hadiza Mohammed, and Sunday Oko (lead writers) Despite the many groundbreaking innovations in the treatment and prevention of HIV,…
EmbraceEquity: Changing the Status Quo for Gender Equity and Women's Inclusion
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By Asari Ndem and Ohanu Dabri Olohije (Lead Writers) “Show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over…
Connecting Nigeria: Five Ways Starlink Could Expand Access to Quality Health Services
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By Chibuike Alagboso and Beti Baiye (Lead Writers) Starlink, the internet service operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched in Nigeria three weeks…
Universal Health Care in Nigeria: Accelerating the NHIA Act's Implementation
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By Oluoma Omeje, Joy Uzoho, Patience Adejo and Abdulmajeed Abdulsalam (Lead Writers) In February 2023, the Director General of the National Health…
Public Health Communication During a Health Emergency: What We Have Learned
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By Vivianne Ihekweazu & Onyinye Oranezi (Lead writers) “We’ve learned collectively that transparency, openness, and the communication of credible information to people…
From the Lunacy Act to the First Mental Health Act in Nigeria: Five Takeaways
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By Aloysius Ugwu and Beti Baiye In January 2023, a little over six decades after the Lunacy Act of 1958 was established,…
Why We Must Accelerate the Inclusion of Noma as a Neglected Tropical Disease
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A mysterious figure dressed all in black, she appeared to be invisible as she slipped through the Laraba (Wednesday) market crowd in…
Africa at a Public Health Crossroads: Five Lessons from the 2nd International Conference on Public Health in Africa 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic opened a ‘Pandora’s box’ of never-ending problems putting enormous pressure on global health systems, exposing biases in global public…