Laboratory medicine matures in Africa: How should Nigeria translate talent to impact?
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We could not attend an important conference on Laboratory Medicine in Africa this month because we were involved in another important event…
Another MANSAG meeting in the UK
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Each year, the umbrella group for Nigerian Doctors in the UK, MANSAG, holds an annual conference. The 2012 conference held recently in…
Saving 1 million lives in Nigeria
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On the 16th October 2012, most people involved in maternal and child health in Nigeria gathered at the Banquet Hall of the…
SOLD - Rochas and the privatisation of Imo Hospitals
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Something interesting is happening to the public hospitals in Imo; the State Government appears to have concessioned them out to a private firm….
The International Conference on AIDS 2012, Washington DC
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We could not attend the International Conference on AIDS in Washington DC this year, so we asked Fiona Makia to share her…
David Mark, Social Media and Health
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Our Senator President, David Mark, the Nigerian Senate President recently called for a check on the use of the social media in…
Another International Conference on AIDS
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Today – July 22 the 19th International Conference on AIDS opens in Washington DC. NHW will miss this year’s conference, BUT we thought…
Rest in Peace Dr Dantong, Chair Senate Committee on Health
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Every time news comes of another tragic incident in our country Nigeria, we cry, shrug our shoulders and move on. The routine condolence messages are…
A quiet miracle.....Is this the end of CSM?
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Very rarely have vaccines given us the opportunity to create a small miracle. Unlike the miracle of surgery and antibiotics that brings…
A lose, lose, lose situation...
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Doctors employed by the Lagos State Government have been on strike. Subsequently 788 of them were sacked by the Lagos State Government,…
WHY ARE WE CRYING? WE ARE ALL GUILTY
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7 years ago, my emotion laden brother Ike Anya wrote this piece after the Sosoliso crash. Today I read it again and…
Nigeria Health Watch on Twitter!
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Are you following Nigeria Health Watch on Twitter? If not …you should. When we started this blog in 2007, Twitter did not exist and…
IBORI: What does 50 million pounds really mean?
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Guest post by Chima Onoka Maxwell lost his wife Ufuoma last December. She was pregnant and started bleeding before her time of…
Killing the Health Bill....slowly
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Leadership. What is leadership? Not a question we will explore in detail in this blog, but suffice it to say that the…