The Fight Against Open Defecation: Can Nigeria Meet the 2025 Target?
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Hadiza Mohammed and Ibukun Oguntola (Lead Writers) Editor’s note: We are counting down to 2025 when Nigeria expects to end open defecation….
The Street is Not a Home: Illuminating Streetism in Cross River State
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By Bernard Assim- Ita and Samuel Gada (Lead Writers) Editor’s Note: Reports from the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly…
I-WASH: Improving Access to Water Sanitation and Hygiene Services in Kebbi State
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By Misbahu El-Hamza and Dabri Ohanu Olohije Murjanatu Usman is a 35-year-old mother of eight living in Sauwa community in Argungu Local…
World Water Day 2023: Accelerating Change to Solve the Water and Sanitation Crisis
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By Onyinye Oranezi and Hadiza Mohammed (Lead Writers) As the saying goes, “Water is life”. However, one could rephrase it to say-”Adequate…
Water No Get Enemy: Improving Access to Water for the Uko Nteghe Community in Akwa Ibom State.
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The gentle early morning rain falls as we drive through the still dark streets of Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, to…
Zinari Primary Healthcare Centre: Patients Suffer the Indignity of Inadequate Sanitation and Hygiene Facilities
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Zinari is a small community under Shata ward in Bosso Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State. The community is about 20…
Improving Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Nigeria: The Only Language Cholera Understands
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Nigeria is prone to seasonal disease outbreaks and in the last few years, a series of outbreaks including monkeypox, measles, Lassa fever,…
#H2OForCommunities: JDI’s Community Collaboration on WASH Facilities
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“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water” — W.H. Auden. Iwa is a lively rural community of about 600 inhabitants in Gurara…
Improving WASH in Nigeria's Underserved Communities
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Yimitu is a low-income community on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. A significant part of its population is made up…
“Detti no dey kill black man” – The Unhygienic State of Nigerian Markets
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Sanitation and hygiene are cost-effective approaches against infectious diseases. However, this relatively inexpensive way of preventing infectious diseases seems to be neglected…
Assessment of WASH services in FCT and Niger State PHCs reveals huge gaps
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By Atinuke Akande-Alegbe and Bashar Abubakar (Lead Writers) Healthcare, according to the Alma-Ata declaration of 1978, is a basic human right of…
Nigeria Health Watch presents findings from an assessment of WASH services in PHCs in FCT and Niger State
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04 February, 2021 | Abuja – Nigeria Health Watch presents findings from an assessment of WASH services in PHCs in the FCT…