Top Ten Health News Items in 2019
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Buhari rolls out Basic Health Care Provision Fund. Immunisation: FG, Bill Gates Foundation Sign $75m Financing Agreement. The road to NAIIS: UNAIDS’…
Let your votes build Nigeria’s Health Sector in 2019: #Vote4HealthNaija
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“My name is Amos Nathan, I am making a creative statement, vote for health Naija” When Mr. Nathan made this statement, just…
Could a new typhoid vaccine end the most misdiagnosed disease in Nigeria?
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Editor’s Note: This week’s Thought Leadership on Health Series comes from Pharmacist and Public Health Specialist Chijioke Nwosu. He writes about the…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 08 July 2016
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UN warns over malnutrition deaths in NE Nigeria. Nigerians spend 20% on health —Survey. Gombe begins vaccination against pneumococcal diseases. Nigerian to…
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…