Smile Train arrives Nigeria!
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In November 2007, on a cold November night we sat in an auditorium at UCL in London listening to the annual lecture…
Medical Mission with a difference: The changing face of surgical operations
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We will occasionaly bring you a piece by a guest write Kingsley Obom-Egbulem. KC has been reporting on health issues for a…
Road Traffic Accidents and the Federal Road Safety Commision
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by Ndubuisi Edeoga The Federal Road Safety Commision has been in the news a lot lately. Guardian: January 1, 2009 deadline given…
Health news around the country
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Guardian: A LACK of funds (sic) is delaying the proposed N247 million new model sero-prevalence or (not sure what “or” means) sentinel…
NHW's response to the Ministerial Press Briefing of our Minister of Health
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Dr Hassan Lawal oon, Minister for LabourSupervising Minister, Ministry for HealthFederal Republic of NigeriaDear Sir,Thank you!One of the features of the YarAdua…
Our Government and the Health sector
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You could not make this up…but this is how our health sector is being run… 2 years after a failing agency the…
Still missing Omololu, 2 years on…..
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I ran into Olayide Akanni last week while catching the Number 8 bus in Geneva. Most of you reading this blog will…
While Nigeria stutters...Ghana makes great strides
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From AfricaLoft:Ghana is reportedly one of the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa which have made tremendous progress in reducing infant and maternal…
India...an ongoing challenge
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I recently read an interesting blog by editors of the BMJ who had recently visited India. They wrote about their vist… Nair…
MANSAG Conference holds in Birmingham - October 17 to 19
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The Medical Association of Nigerian Specialists and General Practitioners in the British Isles MANSAG, holds its 19th Authum Conference. Despite the organisational…
Health stories in the Nigerian Press
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Vanguard: Principal Recipient for the Global Fund Round Five TB Grant, the Christian Health Association of Nigeria (CHAN), commissions of the National…
The rising storm: Polio in Nigeria
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When will we take ownership of this problem? When will our Ministry of Health, our State Governors, our Religious Leaders, our Commmunity…
Nigeria and the Global Fund
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We have previously blogged on the The Global Fund; one of Kofi Annan biggest legacies as Secretary General of the UN. It…
Putting Health on the Agenda in Nigeria
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Despite its importance, health is not highly invisible on the political agenda in Nigeria.Politicians hardly mention it, people rarely make a fuss…