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Another Office or a Stronger System? The Institutional Test for Nigeria’s Digital Health Agenda

Jul 22, 2026
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Turning Livestock Waste into Fertiliser: Can a Kaduna Enterprise Cut Farm Costs and Support Better Nutrition?

Jul 20, 2026
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‘Where Does My Donated Blood Go?’ Tracing the Life-Saving Journey from Donor to Patient

Jul 19, 2026
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NIGERIA HEALTH WATCH LAUNCHES THE NIGERIA HEALTH WATCHERS NETWORK

Jul 17, 2026
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How a Philanthropic Donation Expanded Samaru PHC and Improved Access to Quality Care

Jul 16, 2026
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Curated Conversations: Dr Pavel Ursu on Nigeria’s Primary Health Care Reform, Financing, and UHC

By Nigeria Health Watch | March 28, 2026

Ibukun Oguntola and Chinwendu Iroegbu (Lead writers) In this latest edition of Nigeria Health Watch’s Curated Conversations, the Country Representative of the World Health Organization (WHO) Nigeria, Dr Pavel Ursu, discusses what it takes to transform Nigeria’s primary health care (PHC) system from vision into reality. His conversation with Nigeria Health Watch comes at a […]

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The System Eats Our People: A Poem of Grief and Rage

By Nigeria Health Watch | March 26, 2026

A poem by Dr. Ebere Okereke – Inspired by Kwesi Brew’s “The Sea Eats Our Land” Dr Ebere Okereke wrote this poem in the wake of several deaths close to her, each painful and, in important ways, avoidable. They did not arise from one isolated failure. They reflected a chain of neglect, weak infrastructure, delayed […]

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Without 24-Hour Service, Shuwaki PHC Improvements Fall Short of Better Care

By Nigeria Health Watch | March 26, 2026

The improvement at Shuwaki Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) has offered hope for the community, but without 24-hour services, many patients are still left without receiving quality care. Following a visit by Nigeria Health Watch in September 2024, key concerns were raised around poor infrastructure, lack of water, and inadequate staffing. For a level 2 facility […]

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Ojota PHC Crisis: Delays and Heat Drive Patients Away

By Nigeria Health Watch | March 19, 2026

Delayed care and unbearable heat are fast becoming a dangerous combination at Ojota PHC, where patients seeking help are instead met with long waits and suffocating conditions. For many residents, accessing care here feels like a risk rather than a relief. The Ogudu/Ojota Primary Health Centre (PHC), Kosofe LGA, Lagos State, is classified as a […]

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CEPI 3.0 and the Race to Develop the World’s First Lassa Fever Vaccine

By Nigeria Health Watch | March 18, 2026

Shalom David and Uwaifiokun Okhuarobo (Lead writers) Every dry season, the wards begin to fill. At Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital in Edo State and the Federal Medical Centre in Owo, Ondo State, two of Nigeria’s treatment centres for Lassa fever, clinicians recognise the pattern all too well. A farmer arrives with a persistent fever that […]

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