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Water No Get Enemy: Improving Access to Water for the Uko Nteghe Community in Akwa Ibom State.

By Beti Baiye
August 29, 2022
4 Mins read
The gentle early morning rain falls as we drive through the still dark streets of Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, to…
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Torchlight

WASH in PHCs – How Fulfilling Evidence Gaps Contributes to Improved Policy and Practice

By Nigeria Health Watch
February 9, 2022
4 Mins read
By Oguntola Ibukun & Dara Ajala-Damisa Nigeria is among the countries where about 17% of health care facilities had no access to…
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From a Fact-Finding Visit to Providing Safe Water for Sauka Community

By Chibuike Alagboso
February 7, 2022
5 Mins read
Big things every so often start in small ways. Louis Pasteur may never have fully conceived the far reaching effects of his…
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Community Health Watch

Zinari Primary Healthcare Centre: Patients Suffer the Indignity of Inadequate Sanitation and Hygiene Facilities

By Nigeria Health Watch
October 21, 2021
2 Mins read
Zinari is a small community under Shata ward in Bosso Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State. The community is about 20…
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Thought Leadership

Improving Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Nigeria: The Only Language Cholera Understands

By Ibukun Oguntola
August 25, 2021
3 Mins read
Nigeria is prone to seasonal disease outbreaks and in the last few years, a series of outbreaks including monkeypox, measles, Lassa fever,…
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Torchlight

#H2OForCommunities: JDI’s Community Collaboration on WASH Facilities 

By Bunmi Oyebanji Obot
July 26, 2021
6 Mins read
“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water” — W.H. Auden. Iwa is a lively rural community of about 600 inhabitants in Gurara…
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Thought Leadership

Improving WASH in Nigeria's Underserved Communities

By Beti Baiye
June 23, 2021
5 Mins read
Yimitu is a low-income community on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. A significant part of its population is made up…
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Thought Leadership

“Detti no dey kill black man” – The Unhygienic State of Nigerian Markets

By Patience Adejo
May 29, 2021
4 Mins read
Sanitation and hygiene are cost-effective approaches against infectious diseases. However, this relatively inexpensive way of preventing infectious diseases seems to be neglected…
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Thought Leadership

Assessment of WASH services in FCT and Niger State PHCs reveals huge gaps

By Nigeria Health Watch
March 2, 2021
7 Mins read
By Atinuke Akande-Alegbe and Bashar Abubakar (Lead Writers) Healthcare, according to the Alma-Ata declaration of 1978, is a basic human right of…
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Torchlight

Partnership for WASH: European Union and State Governments Improve Services in Rural Communities

By Bashar Abubakar
April 6, 2020
6 Mins read
Nasoro Primary School is right at the centre of Gumel town in Jigawa State, North West Nigeria. It has over 4,700 students…
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Thought Leadership

In the shadow of Climate Change: The need to focus on better water quality in Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch
March 18, 2020
6 Mins read
Editor’s Note: For World Water Day, celebrated annually on March 22nd, Nigeria Health Watch Events Manager Thelma Thomas writes this Thought Leadership…
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Thought Leadership

Living In Dirt: Nigeria's waste crisis requires urgent action

By Thelma Chioma Abeku
December 12, 2019
4 Mins read
Editor’s Note: In this Thought Leadership Piece, Nigeria Health Watch Health Events Manager, Thelma Thomas highlights the breakdown of sanitation in Nigeria…
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Torchlight

No More Absence: Abuja NGO works to improve menstrual health for schoolgirls

By Valentine Iwenwanne
September 16, 2019
6 Mins read
Sylvia Egar was 13 years old in 2017 when she started her period for the first time. Her mother had never discussed…
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Thought Leadership

A mango in the backyard that cannot be plucked: FCT indigenes face glaring health inequities

By Nigeria Health Watch
August 7, 2019
6 Mins read
Editor’s Note: In this week’s Thought Leadership blog, Nigeria Health Watch Journalist Chibuike Alagboso spotlights health inequities faced by Abuja’s indigenous peoples….
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