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On World Tuberculosis Day – Reflections on a Forgotten Epidemic

By Nigeria Health Watch | March 22, 2016

March 24 is World TB Day, yet for most people that have the privilege of reading this piece, tuberculosis is an abstract term. But, why would a disease that infects about half a million Nigerians every year, and kills about 170,000 annually attract so little attention from the government, the health professions and from the people? […]

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Time for courage: Nigeria’s health security and the National Centre for Disease Control

By Nigeria Health Watch | February 16, 2016

Nigeria defeated Ebola! That was the single story. No one asked about how the N1.9B released for the response was used. What institutional capacity had been built? No one asked how to integrate the National Polio Emergency Operation Centre that took a lot of the credit for the Ebola response into a national emergency centre […]

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Accountability NOW: A Summit to Advance Newborn and Maternal Health in Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch | February 9, 2016

Editor: The National Summit on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (RMNCAH) will take place in Abuja on February 16-18. The inaugural Summit will address accountability in healthcare delivery for women, newborns, and other vulnerable groups.  By now it is no secret that Nigeria’s maternal and child health indicators, while improving, are still at […]

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Will the 2016 Health Budget fund the 2014 National Health Act?

By Nigeria Health Watch | February 2, 2016

Editor: In this week’s piece Edwin Ikhuoria of ONE Campaign reviews the 2016 Budget Proposal for Health, highlighting its inherent gaps, especially in light of the new National Health Act, and pointing to the important question of how these numbers will impact the health experiences of every day Nigerians who are desperate for safe, affordable […]

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Lack of trust in health sector: the underlying cause of the large Lassa Fever outbreak in Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch | January 26, 2016

Strange deaths in a community in Niger State in 2015 left the community confused, this was followed by a period of uncertainty and anxiety, and they reached out to the only rational explanation they could imagine – the supernatural. By the time the public health authorities were informed and a diagnosis of Lassa Fever was […]

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