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Community Health Watch shines a spotlight on grassroots health initiatives, local champions, and collective efforts improving well-being across Nigeria. From rural clinics to urban outreach programs, this category explores how communities are taking ownership of their health—through innovation, collaboration, and advocacy.

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Niger State’s PHCs Are Screening Beyond TB. Can the Model Last?

Sep 19, 2026
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Nigeria Needs a Stronger Evidence System to Track Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage

Sep 17, 2026
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‘We Can’t Take Deliveries’: Shongo Hamma Health Post Leaves Pregnant Women Without Maternal Care in Gombe’s Akko Community

Sep 17, 2026
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Global Fund Report Shows Countries Fought to Protect Essential Health Services Despite Challenging Year

Sep 16, 2026
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E-MOTIVE's Calibrated Drapes Are Helping Kaduna Health Workers Detect Postpartum Haemorrhage Earlier

Sep 15, 2026
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Daneji Midwives Encourage PHC Deliveries  

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 8, 2025

When labour begins at night, many women in Daneji, a community in Kano State, choose to deliver at home. This is risky. “One wrong step, and a mother could bleed to death,”- registered midwife, Hajara Haruna. Hajiya Maimuna Hussaini works at the Comprehensive Health Centre in Daneji, a health facility that also serves communities like […]

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Tunga Residents Push for Healthcare Reform After a Pregnant Woman’s Tragedy

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 1, 2025

When a youth leader’s sister, Hajara, died during childbirth, he vowed that no other family in Farm Centre Tunga will suffer the same fate. That night of loss became the spark that led to a community-built Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) that now saves lives. Yakubu M. Wakili, the community leader of the community noted that, […]

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Shaba Woshi Women Still Choose Traditional Birth Attendants Over Skilled Delivery

By Nigeria Health Watch | April 24, 2025

Many pregnant women continue to give birth at home in Baro ward, Agaie Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger state. This is not by personal choice but because their local health facility cannot meet their basic needs. The Shaba Woshi Primary Healthcare (PHC) facility is a Level 1 facility which serves nine surrounding communities spread […]

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Thousands of Residents in Jama’a Community Suffer from a Healthcare Void

By Nigeria Health Watch | April 17, 2025

Imagine a community with over 10,000 residents living without a single pharmacy or healthcare centre. In Jama’a, a community in Gezawa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State, this is their daily reality—one that has cost lives and deepened health inequalities. “For as long as I can remember, we have never had a health facility—not […]

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Lemo Ward Residents Struggle to Access Medical Care

By Nigeria Health Watch | April 10, 2025

Residents of Lemo Ward face immense challenges in accessing basic healthcare services in Tsamiya Babba community of Gezawa Local Government Area (LGA). Despite being part of Kano’s metropolitan city, the absence of a healthcare facility forces pregnant women, children, and other vulnerable groups to endure long and difficult journeys for medical care, sometimes with dire […]

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