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Top Ten News Items on Health, 6th December 2019
2030: FHIS seeks adequate policies to achieve UHC. Malaria: EU/UNICEF programme treats 16,992 children in…More
Top Ten News Items on Health, 6th December 2019
World AIDS Day: Nigeria needs to tackle Mother-to-Child Transmission to meet 2030 target. Lagos to…More
Sanofi signs pact with May & Baker for local production… NAFDAC, PSN, NIROPHARM, PMG-MAN, others applaud
The National Agency for Food & Drug Administration & Control (NAFDAC) has expressed strong support…More
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Top Ten News Items on Health, 6th December 2019
2030: FHIS seeks adequate policies to achieve UHC. Malaria: EU/UNICEF programme treats 16,992 children in Adamawa. PharmAccess partners EDC to…More
Top Ten News Items on Health, 6th December 2019
World AIDS Day: Nigeria needs to tackle Mother-to-Child Transmission to meet 2030 target. Lagos to begin treatment of neglected diseases.…More
Leadership View all
59: Great Lofty Heights Unattained
Editor’s Note: As Nigeria celebrates its 59th year of Independence, Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor reflects on Nigeria’s healthcare journey through the…More
Lessons from Kaduna: improving immunisation coverage through local emergency coordination centres
In the last three decades, the world has gone through a long and tough road in the push to eradicate…More
Technology View all
Health Meets Tech Johannesburg Hackathon – Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights
South Africa has a high prevalence of teenage and unwanted pregnancies, HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and female genital schistosomiasis…More
How “SatComms Tablets” are reviving primary healthcare in Kano State
A few mothers are seated with the Health Officer-in-Charge of Sumaila Yamma Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC), who has just finished…More
Events View all
Five takeaways of the 69th World Health Assembly from a Nigerian Perspective
The 69th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization held between the 23rd and 28th of May in Geneva.…More
Special Edition: Conference brings attention to Tuberculosis in Nigeria
In the week that a major announcement was made by WHO shortening the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, the scientific community is…More
Visits to Health Projects View all
Can Art Heal? How a Lagos creative group is using Art as therapy
Entering the Paediatric Oncology ward of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Yaba, where children are treated for cancer, you…More
Marie Connect: Reaching out to rural Nigerian communities with Family Planning services
Editor’s Note: This week the FP2020 Summit took place in London to discuss efforts to reach the Family Planning 2020…More
Africa View all
Global Health: Chatham House round-table re-defines development of bio-safety labs in developing countries
In February, several global biosafety lab experts joined a roundtable organised by Chatham House in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. They were seeking solutions to…More
Diaspora View all
Rise Up and Walk: How one charity is bringing orthopaedic care to Nigerians
Editor’s Note: Nigeria Health Watch team member Ada Ezeokoli took a trip to South-East Nigeria to learn about the Foundation…More