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Breaking Barriers for Better Health: 3rd International Conference on Public Health in Africa Opens in Lusaka, Zambia

By Nigeria Health Watch
November 28, 2023
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The 3rd International Conference on Public Health in Africa (CPHIA 2023) opened today in Lusaka, Zambia, with African Heads of State, ministers…
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Torchlight Africa

Lessons from Dakar: How Peer Learning and Capacity Strengthening of CSOs Impacts Africa's Development

By Chibuike Alagboso
September 26, 2022
5 Mins read
At the Café De Rome Hotel, 350 meters from the Presidential Palace in Dakar, Senegal, academics, and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) from…
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CEPI and IVI collaborate on clinical research to expand access to COVID-19 vaccines in Africa

By Nigeria Health Watch
July 20, 2021
4 Mins read
July 20, 2021; Oslo, Norway and Seoul, Republic of Korea: The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI)…
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WHO Africa Health Forum to shape next steps in universal health care on the continent

By Nigeria Health Watch
March 14, 2019
2 Mins read
Global leaders and health experts will come together at the continent’s seminal health-focused event to identify workable solutions that will strengthen African…
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Person of the Year

By Nigeria Health Watch
December 30, 2014
4 Mins read
We rarely have much to celebrate in the health sector, and broadly this is still the case. The fundamental reform that the…
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AfricaNigeriaThought Leadership

Seven out of ten Nigerians not confident in Capacity of their local Hospitals to manage Ebola

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
August 26, 2014
3 Mins read
We will be surprised if there is a Nigerian out there that has not yet heard about the Ebola virus. It’s on…
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An island of hope: Visiting the Obio Community Health Insurance Scheme

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
August 5, 2014
4 Mins read
There have been many calls for universal health coverage recently. Nigeria is one of the signatories to the universal health coverage plan…
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Do medical missions really help? We joined Pro Health International on one to find out.

By Nigeria Health Watch
July 29, 2014
8 Mins read
Medical missions have grown in relevance in Nigeria over the past 20 years. This is largely as a consequence of the failure…
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Thought Leadership

Meeting Nigerians working on TB from all over the continent meet in Ghana

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
July 26, 2013
2 Mins read
Tuberculosis is one of the oldest diseases known, yet one of the most difficult to control. Nigeria has the second highest burden…
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Thought Leadership

A medical Exhibition in Africa with very few African Exhibitors

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
June 10, 2013
1 Mins read
There is a lot of talk everywhere about Africa “rising“. This is definitely the case in many sectors of the economy in…
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Thought Leadership

Millions of girls in developing countries to be protected against cervical cancer, but ...

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
May 24, 2013
2 Mins read
…countries will need to develop the infrastructure to deliver the HPV vaccine to those that need it! This is precisely where we…
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Thought Leadership

A polio-free Nigeria as a critical step to a polio-free world

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
April 12, 2013
5 Mins read
Guest post by Iruka N Okeke …and we endorse and actively support its content!  Nigerian scientists, doctors and technical experts  joined their colleagues…
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Thought Leadership

Laboratory medicine matures in Africa: How should Nigeria translate talent to impact?

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
December 20, 2012
4 Mins read
We could not attend an important conference on Laboratory Medicine in Africa this month because we were involved in another important event…
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Thought Leadership

Visit to Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital - the largest hospital in the world

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
August 11, 2011
3 Mins read
One often needs to look beyond the circumstances at home in Nigeria to understand the scale of our challenge. We have 17…
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