Focusing on the vulnerable to achieve UHC in Nigeria: Insights from a book launch
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On September 14, 2021, Dr Charles Ezuma-Ngwu, launched a book titled ‘Universal Healthcare and Access to the Lower-income Population: An exploration of…
Safe Spaces in the Workplace: Reducing Workplace Stress to Improve Mental Health
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Patience Adejo and Dara Ajala-Damisa (Lead Writers) Musa is a 32-year-old junior associate who works in a law firm. He used to…
Primary Health Care in Nigeria: Progress, Challenges and Collaborating for Transformation
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Health is a human right and everyone, irrespective of location or socioeconomic status has a right to healthcare at their point of…
Gender Inequality: A Mind Shift could Improve Maternal Care
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Ifeyinwa Yusuf (Lead Writer) Growing up I dreamt of being a renowned obstetrician or surgeon like Ben Carson. After reading his book,…
Stronger Through Collaboration and Partnership: Nigeria Health Commissioners Forum Quarterly Meeting
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The COVID-19 pandemic not only exposed weaknesses in global health systems, it also provided us with an opportunity to course-correct and build…
Sustaining Excellence: NCDC Gets New Director General
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Onyinye Oranezi & Dara Ajala-Damisa (Lead Writers) Nigerians in the health sector and key stakeholders have waited with bated breath for the…
Now We Have More COVID-19 Vaccines in Nigeria: Time to Deliver
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After the successful deployment of the first round of vaccines received from the COVAX facility in March 2021, Nigeria has received its…
State of Emergency: The Doctors' Strike and the Brain Drain of the Health Care Workforce
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In 2019, when my father was in the Intensive Care Unit of one of Nigeria’s biggest tertiary hospitals in the Federal Capital…
Improving Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Nigeria: The Only Language Cholera Understands
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Nigeria is prone to seasonal disease outbreaks and in the last few years, a series of outbreaks including monkeypox, measles, Lassa fever,…
My Body, My Choice: Promoting Bodily Autonomy and Gender Equality in Nigeria
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Zainab was only 11 years old when she became the fourth wife of a 42-year-old cobbler in her community. She is from…
Getting COVID-19 Shots in Arms: A Vaccine Rollout in Nigeria Like Nothing Before
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By Gabriel Oke and Kenni Ndili (Lead Writers) In December 2020, the first COVID-19 vaccine was issued emergency use authorisation (EUA) by…
Protect Breastfeeding: Strengthening Workplace Policies for Exclusive Breastfeeding in Nigeria
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Breastfeeding provides essential nutrients to newborns and infants, which translate to proper growth and development from childhood to adulthood. There are many…
Building back better from COVID-19: Four insights from the inaugural NiCAFE conference
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The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that there is no dropping the ball when it comes to preventing, detecting and responding to infectious…