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CHIPS: Connecting Communities to Primary Health Care Facilities in Nasarawa State

August 14, 2023

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Twice a month, Mary Jacob, a Community Engagement Focal Person (CEFP), conducts supportive supervision of 35-year-old Afinnaki Ibrahim, a Community Health Influencer,…

Community Health Watch

Danbare Community Seeks the Opening of a ‘Newly-Built’ PHC

By Nigeria Health Watch

November 5, 2022

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Danbare community has a well-constructed Primary Health Center (PHC) however, community members have not been able to access the facility as it…

Community Health Watch

NiCare and The BHCPF Give Edokota PHC a New Look

By Nigeria Health Watch

October 15, 2022

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After years of wear and tear, the Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Edokota, a farming community in Gbako Local Government Area (LGA)…

Community Health Watch

Human Resource, a Critical Need for Dawakiji Health Clinic

By Nigeria Health Watch

August 13, 2022

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Dawakiji Basic Health Clinic in Dawakiji community of Dawakin Kudu Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State provides healthcare services to the…

Community Health Watch

Emi Umaru Clinic Where Health Inequity Thrives

By Nigeria Health Watch

May 28, 2022

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Adamu Jiya is the only health worker in the only health facility in Emi Umarua rural community in Gbako Local Government Area…

Community Health Watch

Matandi PHC: Only a Total Renovation will do.

By Nigeria Health Watch

March 10, 2022

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It is not hard for a first-time visitor to Matandi Primary Health Centre (PHC) to imagine it as the well-built, well equipped…

Thought Leadership

A case for an effective "Roof" over Primary Health Care in Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch

October 18, 2019

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We were on a road trip to Jos, capital city of Plateau State, famous for having the most temperate climate in Nigeria….

Thought Leadership

Money for Midwives: Will the BHCPF solve Midwifery's Funding Woes?

By Nigeria Health Watch

May 2, 2019

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Nigeria’s Minister of Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige, recently made waves when he asserted that he was not worried about doctors leaving Nigeria,…

Polio Thought Leadership

Is this Nigeria’s Last Lap to Polio Freedom?

By Nigeria Health Watch

February 20, 2019

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In about six months, Nigeria will achieve what will arguably be one of her recent greatest public health achievements; being declared polio-free….

Thought Leadership

Could a new typhoid vaccine end the most misdiagnosed disease in Nigeria?

By Nigeria Health Watch

June 27, 2018

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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…

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Is this the breaking of a new dawn in Nigeria’s health sector?

By Nigeria Health Watch

August 2, 2016

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Last Friday’s news flash that President Muhammadu Buhari had appointed new heads to five public health institutions took the Nigerian health sector…

As the Health Minister’s 10,000 PHC transformation agenda starts, we urge him to keep primary health care under ONE roof

By Nigeria Health Watch

May 3, 2016

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We are in May. Later this month we will mark one year into the tenure of the Buhari administration, a quarter of…

Professor Eyitayo Lambo’s ‘Tour de Force’ and Call to Action

By Chikwe Ihekweazu

December 22, 2015

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On December 9th 2015, we gathered in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, for the first Public Service Lecture of the Nigerian Primary Health…

Africa Nigeria Thought Leadership

What you need to know about the Yobe eye drops Story

By Chikwe Ihekweazu

September 8, 2015

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This is a follow up story to the public service announcement concerning the misuse of Chlorhexidine digluconate 7.1% solution packaged as eye…

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CHIPS: Connecting Communities to Primary Health Care Facilities in Nasarawa State

Danbare Community Seeks the Opening of a ‘Newly-Built’ PHC

NiCare and The BHCPF Give Edokota PHC a New Look

Human Resource, a Critical Need for Dawakiji Health Clinic

Emi Umaru Clinic Where Health Inequity Thrives

Matandi PHC: Only a Total Renovation will do.

A case for an effective "Roof" over Primary Health Care in Nigeria

Money for Midwives: Will the BHCPF solve Midwifery's Funding Woes?

Is this Nigeria’s Last Lap to Polio Freedom?

Could a new typhoid vaccine end the most misdiagnosed disease in Nigeria?

Is this the breaking of a new dawn in Nigeria’s health sector?

As the Health Minister’s 10,000 PHC transformation agenda starts, we urge him to keep primary health care under ONE roof

Professor Eyitayo Lambo’s ‘Tour de Force’ and Call to Action

What you need to know about the Yobe eye drops Story

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