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Nigeria’s Flood Season is Here. How Are We Protecting Children Before Disaster Strikes?

Aug 31, 2026
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Finding Ebola Earlier: Can Village-Based Surveillance Strengthen DRC’s Outbreak Response?

Aug 29, 2026
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eHealth Africa, Nigeria Health Watch Officially Launch Insights Learning Forum 2026 Report

Aug 28, 2026
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For Lazuru Tudai Residents in Kaduna, Accessing Healthcare Means a Long Journey to an Unsafe PHC

Aug 27, 2026
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Women Are Transforming the Global Health Workforce, But Not Yet Its Leadership

Aug 26, 2026
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Expand Family Planning to Fast-Track Human Capital Development in Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 26, 2023

By Prof. Oladapo Ladipo and Dr Samukeliso Dube (Lead Writers) Editor’s Note: Nigeria is a country with a rapidly growing population and diverse demographic challenges, therefore access to contraception plays a critical role in enabling it achieve its human capital development goals. In this thought leadership piece, Professor Oladapo Ladipo, President, Association for Reproductive and […]

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 25th August 2023

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 25, 2023

‘Nigeria Records 15% Improvement In Health Security Capacities In 5 Years’. Diphtheria: Death toll hits 100 in Kano, 26 in Bauchi. Healthcare: WHO, NPHCDA To Intervene In Katsina. Anthrax: FG inaugurates primary animal health centre to tackle infectious diseases in Oyo. Measles outbreak in Benue IDPs camp escalates. FHIS commends Tinubu’s plan to proritise health […]

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The Climate-Health Nexus: Time to Build Evidence for Global Health Action

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 24, 2023

Editor’s note: In the run-up to COP 28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) later this year, Nigeria Health Watch, interviewed Simon Bland, Chief Executive Officer of the Global Institute for Disease Elimination (GLIDE), a partnership between the President of the UAE and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. GLIDE works to progress disease elimination […]

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Kenya’s Innovative Injectable-Free Regimen Transforming TB Care

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 21, 2023

By Joyce Chimbi (Lead Writer) Augustus Omondi suffered a persistent cough and intense night sweats that lasted for almost one month in late 2018. However, it was the significant weight loss that alarmed him. He was afraid that he might have contracted HIV/AIDS. “Even after several visits to the hospital, I was getting worse. After […]

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Amplifying The Power of Social Listening in HPV Vaccine Rollout

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 19, 2023

By Sunday Oko and Abara Erim (Lead Writers) In a context where people’s perceptions and reactions to public health interventions significantly influence their effectiveness, social listening has become an important tool for catalysing efforts to better understand attitudes and perceptions of public health interventions. Social listening involves actively identifying and analysing conversations of public health […]

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