Health news in October
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The quality of some of the health reporting in the Nigerian press is still extremely poor. It is obvious that most of…
125,000 people living with HIV are accessing antiretrovirals in Nigeria
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In 2001, the Nigerian Government government declared an ambitious national treatment antiretroviral target (the drug treatment for HIV/AIDS) to reach 100,000 people…
Nigerian Doctors in the UK meet
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The Medical Association of Nigerian Specialists and General Practitioners (MANSAG) is holding its annual conference and general meeting this weekend. For details…
Why children continue to die from a disease that can be prevented with 50 cents!
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…Our inability to raise coverage of routine immunisation in Nigeria remains one of the biggest scandals of our age. Huge outbreaks are…
Nigerian Health Minister in London and other updates
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Recently we blogged about the appointment of Professor Adenike Grange as Minister of Health and the enthusiastic response in the Nigerian health…
Health stories from the papers in September
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Find a few health stories from the papers in September…nothing ground breaking but the first one could be very significant…read on! ThisDay:…
Oh No...just how do we communicate this?
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Like many on this forum will know, Nigeria has come to be closely associated with the near collapse of the Global Polio…
Doctors in power: We are proud!
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Since restoration of democracy in Nigeria in 1999, we in the medical profession have been extremely lucky to have some of our…
Health minister calls for probe of donor funds
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Without wanting to sound like an inveterate praise singer, Professor Grange gets it right again, calling for a probe of her ministry’s…
Kanu Heart Foundation: Proving sceptics wrong
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The Kanu Heart Foundation is often in the the news …and rightly so! When Kanu set up his foundation in 2002 and…
Information is power? Keeping it hidden is also powerful!
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A lot of interesting bilateral health related initiatives seem to be happening behind the scenes in Nigeria. One is reassured by the…
Health in the News in August: Beautiful, Bad and Ugly
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The press was full of interesting health related news articles out of Nigeria in August. Find a summary attached. Maybe there is…
Grange unveils plans
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The optimism surrounding the recent appointment of Professor Adenike Grange as health minister seems justified looking at recent reports. In her first…
Is your health digging an unhealthy hole in your pocket?....
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The provision of private health care in Nigeria is changing. This change is most profound among staff and dependants of the public…