Looking Ahead In 2023 - Rekindling Hope in Nigeria's Health Sector
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The start of a new year comes with fresh expectations, hopes, and dreams. In 2015, Nigeria Health Watch hosted its inaugural Future…
Reflecting on Nigeria’s Health Sector in 2022: Hope For 2023?
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The resilience of the health sector was tested when the COVID-19 pandemic impacted global economies and health sectors simultaneously in 2020. Routine…
Family Planning Offers a Pathway to Universal Health Coverage But Will Nigeria Take It?
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The recent International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) saw Thailand host up to 3,500 reproductive health and family planning experts and advocates…
Waiting in Hope: Alice’s Cervical Cancer Story
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It has been 10 months since 44-year-old Alice Akin* received a cervical cancer diagnosis. “Will the pain ever go away? It is…
Expanding Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Services and Rights to Vulnerable Populations
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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) underpins the rights women and girls have to make informed decisions about their sexual and…
World AIDS Day 2022: End AIDS. Equalize
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Every first of December, the world unites to commemorate World AIDS Day, showing support for people living with HIV and remembering those…
World AMR Awareness Week 2022: Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance Together
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Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) is still a global health issue. In 2019, the United Nations Ad hoc Interagency Coordination Group on AMR warned…
Prioritising Health Security to Make Nigeria 'Pandemic Proof'
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By Sunday Oko and Ibukun Oguntola (Lead Writers) The Federal Government Budget for the Health Sector has more than doubled over the…
Strengthening Local Capacity for Disease Detection, Reporting, and Response
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Larry Brilliant, a renowned epidemiologist, once said that “outbreaks are inevitable, but pandemics are optional.” Globally, this inevitability of outbreaks has been…
When Floods Threaten Nigeria's Food Security Everyone Suffers
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Media reports have been filled with reports of flooding in several states in Nigeria in the last few months. Thousands of hectares…
World Polio Day 2022: Is Polio Becoming a Wicked Problem?
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“While polio exists anywhere, it’s a threat everywhere” — Ian Riseley, President, The Rotary Foundation Nigeria was declared wild poliovirus free on the 25th August…
Expanding PHC Funding Frontiers: Key Takeaways From the 2022 PHC Financing Forum
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From the ‘Re-imagining Primary Health Care’ summit in April 2022 to the commitment made by the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) — in August of…
Handle Your Heart with Care: Curbing the Rise of Non-Communicable Diseases in Nigeria.
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We got to Zenith Medical & Kidney Centre at 6:50am, and already, the place was beginning to fill up. Thankfully, we were…
To Build a Nation: Reflecting on the Mental Health Impact of the ASUU Strike as Nigeria Turns 62
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By Beti Baiye and Sunday Oko (Lead Writers)