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Tobacco Control Financing Could Be The Key to Supporting Nigeria's Battle Against Non-Communicable Diseases

May 31, 2025

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Ibukun Oguntola and Uche Kennedy (Lead writers) In sub-Saharan Africa, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are projected to overtake infectious diseases as the leading…

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Nigeria’s New Policies for Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases: Time for Multisectoral Action

By Nigeria Health Watch

September 27, 2024

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Tzar Oluigbo (Lead Writer) Nigeria stands at a critical crossroads poised to become a double-burden country where non-communicable diseases (NCDs) threaten to…

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Handle Your Heart with Care: Curbing the Rise of Non-Communicable Diseases in Nigeria.

By Nigeria Health Watch

October 6, 2022

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We got to Zenith Medical & Kidney Centre at 6:50am, and already, the place was beginning to fill up. Thankfully, we were…

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The African Medical Centre of Excellence: If You Build It They Will Come

By Nigeria Health Watch

January 5, 2022

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By Oluwafolakemi Ajala (Lead Writer) On the morning of December 7th, 2021, as we walked into the tent set up for the…

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Will Nigeria’s STEPwise Survey change the narrative around NCDs?

By Chibuike Alagboso

September 19, 2018

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Editor’s Note: Ahead of the 3rd UN High-level meeting on non-communicable diseases holding on September 27th in New York, Staff Writer Chibuike Alagboso highlights the…

non-communicable diseases

Tobacco Control Financing Could Be The Key to Supporting Nigeria's Battle Against Non-Communicable Diseases

Nigeria’s New Policies for Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases: Time for Multisectoral Action

Handle Your Heart with Care: Curbing the Rise of Non-Communicable Diseases in Nigeria.

The African Medical Centre of Excellence: If You Build It They Will Come

Will Nigeria’s STEPwise Survey change the narrative around NCDs?

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