Making our Voices Count: Active Citizenship for Health
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We can see from other sectors in Nigeria, how active citizenship is driving change. From the elections, to the increased responsiveness of…
Nigerian health policy makers gather in Sokoto for the 58th National Council on Health
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Once every year, the Ministers of Health, leaders of all the health parastatals, and the commissioners of health and their teams gather…
One year later, 5 most important lessons from the Nigerian Ebola response
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On October 20 2014, almost exactly one year ago, the World Health Organisation declared Nigeria Ebola free, 42 days after the last…
A dialogue on Nigeria’s ‘role’ in the African Union’s response to the Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak
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At the height of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in the three most affected West African countries, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and…
Urgent Public Service Announcement: Product withdrawal to save the sight of our children
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Early in September 2015, in Yobe State in Nigeria, a three-week old baby was brought to a doctor with corneal ulceration leading…
Inside a Nigerian IDP camp - a Public Health Perspective
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A few weeks ago, my colleague Chioma and I volunteered with Pro Health International to provide free medical care for IDPs in…
Waiting for the promised Change in the Health Sector
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This piece is contributed by Remi Adeseun. Remi is a pharmacist and health sector entrepreneur, Chairman of Rodot Nigeria Limited (a Medical…
Nigeria interrupts Polio, but the fight is not over
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Nigeria is about to cross an important milestone in its fight to eradicate polio. July 24th will mark one year since the…
Defining the Health Sector of our Dreams in Nigeria – Future of Health Conference 2015
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On Thursday June 18 2015, Nigeria Health Watch invites you to join health professionals, health enthusiasts, government agencies and the media to…
Person of the Year
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We rarely have much to celebrate in the health sector, and broadly this is still the case. The fundamental reform that the…
On World AIDS Day, we remember our Brother OMOLOLU FALOBI
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It was World AIDS Day yesterday. We debated about writing a piece about the size of the epidemic, which at over 3…
Why is no one talking about these three big challenges the Nigerian health sector is facing?
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The National Health Bill For the second time since he became president, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has the chance to sign a…
The Devils We Know
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This post was contributed by Iruka N. Okeke – a Professor of Molecular Microbiology, Haverford College in the USA. Her book, Divining…
We cannot be complacent about the NIGERIA TOBACCO CONTROL BILL
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Unfortunately, public health issues rarely make headline news in Nigeria. Very few people know that there is an important bill – the…