TorchlightA Digital Data System is Making Vaccines Accessible to Children Across Kwara’s Communities By Nigeria Health Watch January 13, 2025 5 Mins read Mahdi Garba (Lead writer) A typical day in Babatunde Grace’s life begins with checking her smart tablet to see how many caregivers… Read more
TorchlightPlanting the Future: How a Nigerian University is Tackling Food Insecurity with Agricultural Innovation By Nigeria Health Watch January 6, 2025 5 Mins read Mohammed Dahiru Lawal (Guest Writer) Musa Gambo stood at the edge of his once-barren millet farm, watching rows of green crops sway… Read more
TorchlightFeeding Hope: An MSF-Backed Nutrition Project is Giving Malnourished Children a Fighting Chance in Katsina By Nigeria Health Watch December 23, 2024 5 Mins read Mahdi Garba (Lead writer) Hauwa’u’s gleeful face could be seen by anyone who entered the children’s ward at the Maternal and Child… Read more
TorchlightA Healthcare System Ensures Health Coverage for Nigeria’s Almajiri Children By Nigeria Health Watch December 16, 2024 5 Mins read Chinonso Kenneth (Lead writer) In 2014, Mohammed Keana accompanied a group of colleagues from the London School of Health & Tropical Medicine… Read more
TorchlightProtecting Girls: Nigeria’s Successful HPV Vaccine Rollout By Nigeria Health Watch November 18, 2024 9 Mins read Kemisola Agbaoye and Mahdi Garba (Lead writers) Haulat Abdulfatah, a 38-year-old mother of five had reservations when the campaign for the Human… Read more
TorchlightMeet the Women Reshaping Nigeria’s Digital Health Sector: How an Internship Programme Became Gender-Transformative By Nigeria Health Watch November 8, 2024 10 Mins read By Chisom Ohazurume, Otse Ogorry, Caitlin Showalter, Jesse Hastings, Laura Osterndorf Aequalis and Laurence ClaussenDespite ongoing efforts to empower more African women… Read more
TorchlightEmpowering Communities: Civil Society Drives Health Security Initiatives in Kano State By Ibukun Oguntola November 5, 2024 5 Mins read In 2024, the global burden of infectious diseases has been significant, with the resurgence of diseases, including mpox. Since January, the mpox… Read more
TorchlightTransforming Rural Healthcare through GEANCO’s Modular Clinics By Nigeria Health Watch October 22, 2024 5 Mins read Tzar Oluigbo (Lead Writer) One day at a time, one community at a time, GEANCO Foundation is driving down maternal and child… Read more
TorchlightAfriVacx: Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy in Nigeria By Nigeria Health Watch October 2, 2024 4 Mins read Tzar Oluigbo (Lead Writer) When Okorie Nneoma, a mother of three, first heard about a vaccination outreach near her community in Nsukka,… Read more
TorchlightIn Nigeria’s Off-Grid Communities, Solar-Powered Electricity is Improving Primary Healthcare Delivery By Nigeria Health Watch September 25, 2024 4 Mins read Arinze Chijioke (Lead Writer) Augustine Joseph was fully aware of the dire power supply situation in Fish Town when he arrived to… Read more
TorchlightSmart Meters Bring Water Savings to Nigerian Households By Nigeria Health Watch September 11, 2024 4 Mins read Mahdi Garba (Lead writer) After relocating to an estate in Utako, a district in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, Jonas Odocha discovered a smart… Read more
TorchlightA Boat-Based Initiative is Helping Akwa Ibom Reach Zero-Dose Children in Remote Riverine Communities By Nigeria Health Watch September 3, 2024 4 Mins read Kenneth Ibe and Abara Erim (Lead Writers) In a small, isolated fishing community in Eastern Obolo, Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria’s south-south… Read more
TorchlightProtecting the Future: Kano’s Global Shapers Educate Schoolgirls on HPV and Its Vaccine By Nigeria Health Watch August 20, 2024 6 Mins read Mahdi Garba [Lead writer] When Radeeyah Nasir is not at her job as a registrar in the obstetrics and gynaecology unit of… Read more
TorchlightSafe Deliveries and Healthy Beginnings: How MSF Is Tackling Maternal and Neonatal Deaths in Jigawa By Nigeria Health Watch August 12, 2024 5 Mins read Mahdi Garba (Lead Writer) Hansai Umaru, 22, sits on her hospital bed, blissfully breastfeeding her baby with her mother by her side…. Read more