Another International Conference on AIDS
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Today – July 22 the 19th International Conference on AIDS opens in Washington DC. NHW will miss this year’s conference, BUT we thought…
Rest in Peace Dr Dantong, Chair Senate Committee on Health
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Every time news comes of another tragic incident in our country Nigeria, we cry, shrug our shoulders and move on. The routine condolence messages are…
A quiet miracle.....Is this the end of CSM?
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Very rarely have vaccines given us the opportunity to create a small miracle. Unlike the miracle of surgery and antibiotics that brings…
A lose, lose, lose situation...
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Doctors employed by the Lagos State Government have been on strike. Subsequently 788 of them were sacked by the Lagos State Government,…
WHY ARE WE CRYING? WE ARE ALL GUILTY
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7 years ago, my emotion laden brother Ike Anya wrote this piece after the Sosoliso crash. Today I read it again and…
Nigeria Health Watch on Twitter!
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Are you following Nigeria Health Watch on Twitter? If not …you should. When we started this blog in 2007, Twitter did not exist and…
IBORI: What does 50 million pounds really mean?
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Guest post by Chima Onoka Maxwell lost his wife Ufuoma last December. She was pregnant and started bleeding before her time of…
Killing the Health Bill....slowly
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Leadership. What is leadership? Not a question we will explore in detail in this blog, but suffice it to say that the…
In dire need of an Emergency Medical Service
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When as a child my mother returned from a trip to Cairo, I asked her if Egypt was more developed than Nigeria….
On yellow fever, yellow cards, Nigeria and South Africa
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The recent refusal of entry and deportation of about 125 Nigerians who had arrived Johannesburg, South Africa aboard ARIK Airlines from Nigeria on…
Polio - Nigeria's role in the final push
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Every quarter, an Independent Monitoring Board assesses progress towards the attainment of a polio-free world. The Independent Monitoring Board was convened at the request of…
From Okada to Keke
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I was in Owerri recently and was not sure whether to laugh or cry. The ubiquitous “Okada” motorcycles that ferried (or flew) people…
To protest, or not to protest - a doctor's dilemma
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The protests on the withdrawal of petrol subsidies in Nigeria has provided doctors with an ethical dilemma. Do they join the protests…
My New Year's wish - an efficient, proactive and responsive Blood Service for Nigeria
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Over the Christmas period, our country Nigeria was again in the news for the wrong reasons. On Christmas day, we made headline…