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…
The Global Education Summit and the Nigerian Paradox
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President Muhammadu Buhari and other global leaders gathered in London for a two-day Global Education Summit that aims to raise US$5 billion…
Taking Action and Finding Safe Spaces: Supporting Child Survivors of Sexual Abuse
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By Aloysius Ugwu and Kenneth Ibe (Lead writers) Emeka was only 5 years old when the abuse began. “Both my parents worked…
Quality of Maternal Medicines in Nigeria: What You Should Know
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By Amaka Yusuf and Dara Ajala-Damisa (Lead writers) The World Health Organisation has reported that each year, between 5.7 and 8.4 million…
Shaping the COVID-19 Response: The Role of Social Science
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By Kenni Ndili As the COVID-19 virus spread across the world in 2020, the world was gripped by the massive global health…
How misinformation impacts COVID-19 vaccine uptake
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“Nobody can convince me to take the COVID-19 vaccine. I don’t trust the government to give me anything that is free and…