We learn the hard way...
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When in 2003, the Polio crisis first broke in Kano and threatend the Global Polio Eradication efforts, the public health community around…
MANSAG - Still going strong!
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Organising Nigerian doctors will never been an easy task. The Medical Association of Nigerian Specialists and General Practitioners have been doing this…
The good news, the bad news…and some hope
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Last week I was at the annual conference of the European Society of Pediatric Infectious Disease in Brussels. There was a buzz…
How we hurt ourselves...
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For a few years I have reviewed abstracts for the International AIDS conferences. Nigerians have often met in these conferences. While we…
A Minister's promise - "You can count on us"
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A few weeks ago I got a message from the PA of the Honourable Minister of Health of our Federal Republic. He…
The health of our prisoners - who cares?
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Have you ever wondered…with the state of health care facilities in Nigeria, what the health services available to prisoners would be like?…
Who takes care of our doctors?
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by ndubuisi edeoga We are happy about all the positive posturing by the new minister of Health. We are happy about his…
Malaria Matters
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If you follow this blog, you should also follow …. this most important blog “Malaria Matters“. It is maintained by Bill Brieger,…
Down Syndrome Association of Nigeria
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Thanks to GoodNaijaGirl…..we bring you this important post… about the …Down syndrome Association of Nigeria is a non-governmental, not-for-profit association of children…
Food for thought: Cholera/Zimababwe vs Meningitis/Nigeria
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Who remembers Cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe – The international outcry, consternation at what was happening, at a point….even some suggestion that this…
Is real reform underway in the health sector?
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Professor Babatunde Osotimehin has a tough job. He was appointed Minister of Health half way through this administration’s tenure. An administration that…
The Business of Health in Africa
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While we have focused mostly on the challenges facing the public sector in health care delivery in Nigeria, the private sector is…
The President speaks, but not about health...
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Our president hardly ever grants interviews. When The Guardian got him to sit down with them for his most detailed interview to…
"Where is the local health centre?"
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Find attached this excellent piece by my friend; Kalu Aja on his dialogue with a new friend visiting our country. A must…