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Finally some innovation drivers in the health space: Launch of the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
February 21, 2014
2 Mins read
Our friend and colleague; Dr Femi Sunmonu, Director of PurpleSource Healthcare, a healthcare management and investment company transforming the mass market private…
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Where are the Nigerian health advocates?

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
February 14, 2014
2 Mins read
As our public health sector continues to deteriorate, it is impossible not to notice the absence of any sustained advocacy. This is…
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Thought Leadership

Was 2013 the year of the ‘Almost Eradicated’?

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
January 27, 2014
3 Mins read
Recently the Minister of Health called the press together and presented the WHO certificate of elimination to the President. He is reported to have said…
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Good news to start 2014: Prof Chukwu says he will accept a call to serve!

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
January 15, 2014
4 Mins read
It has been circulating through the rumour mill for quite some time, but now it is confirmed. The Minister of Health  has…
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Analysis of Nigeria's budget for health in 2014

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
December 24, 2013
3 Mins read
N262B (1.7Billion USD) has been allocated to #health in Nigeria’s 2014 budget; of which 82% is going to recurrent expenditure. All the detailed allocations…
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Thought Leadership

An epidemic of accidents in Nigeria

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
November 18, 2013
2 Mins read
Sadly, we are faced with another tragedy. Award-winning novelist and popular academic unionist, Festus Iyayi, was killed in Lokoja when a vehicle…
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An evening with Agnes Binagwaho - Minister of Health of Rwanda

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
November 11, 2013
3 Mins read
A few days ago, we attended the Annual Lecture organised by THE LANCET. The Editor is still the ever pleasant Richard Horton,…
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Nigeria: A hub for substandard publishing in biomedical science?

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
October 31, 2013
4 Mins read
By Iruka Okeke Academic publishing is the major mode of communication within specialist fields.  New biomedical findings almost always debut in the…
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Thought Leadership

When a system fails, our children die...

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
October 10, 2013
3 Mins read
A lot has been said and written about the HIV/AIDS epidemic since its emergence. No doubt, it is one of the most…
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Thought Leadership

Advanced heart procedures come to Ibadan

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
August 13, 2013
9 Mins read
We always have a quote by Margaret Mead at the bottom of each blog that says “Never doubt that a small group…
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Thought Leadership

Muhammad Pate’s resignation, a profound loss for Nigeria

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
July 29, 2013
6 Mins read
On Tuesday 23rd July, the health sector in Nigeria was rocked by the resignation of the Minister of State for Health, Dr…
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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

Nigerian Minister of Health delivers his midterm report - judge for yourself

By Chikwe Ihekweazu
June 20, 2013
3 Mins read
In his recent widely publicized “midterm report“, our President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, GCFR, BNER, GCON barely mentioned the health sector,…
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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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