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Moving From Policy to Practice: Integrating Family Planning into Nigeria’s Maternal Health Response

Nov 09, 2026
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Curated Conversations: Professor Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum on Building Africa’s Capacity to Respond to Epidemics

Nov 06, 2026
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Kwadon Residents Raise Concerns Over Lack of Ambulance for Emergency Maternal Referrals

Nov 06, 2026
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Curated Conversations: Dr Abasi Ene-Obong on Why Nigeria Must Own Its Genomic Future

Nov 04, 2026
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How Communities Connect Mothers to Skilled Care in The Gambia’s North Bank Region and Nigeria’s Jigawa State

Nov 02, 2026
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Africa at a Public Health Crossroads: Five Lessons from the 2nd International Conference on Public Health in Africa 2022

By Nigeria Health Watch | January 26, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic opened a ‘Pandora’s box’ of never-ending problems putting enormous pressure on global health systems, exposing biases in global public health practices and disrupting global economies. There was also the loud warning about the need to reform and revitalise global health systems, which was difficult to ignore. Today, Africa appears to be at […]

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RICOM3: A Collaborative Effort to Reduce Maternal Deaths from Indirect Causes in Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch | January 23, 2023

By Michael Atima and Bunmi Oyebanji Obot (Lead Writers) It is a little-known fact that 5–10% of pregnancies in Nigeria are complicated by hypertension issues. Despite the significant burden of maternal mortality and morbidity (MMM), there hasn’t been sufficient focus on how noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) affect women of reproductive age and their risk factors. The Federal […]

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Nigeria Health Watch Announces the Third Edition Of #PreventEpidemicsNaija Journalism Awards 2023

By Nigeria Health Watch | January 18, 2023

Nigeria Health Watch is excited to announce the third edition of the #PreventEpidemicsNaija Journalism Awards ceremony to celebrate evidence-based and accurate reportage of funding for Epidemic Preparedness and Response (EPR) in Nigeria. Nominations closed on Monday, January 2, 2023, and winners will be announced at the award ceremony on January 27, 2023. Since 2018, Nigeria […]

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Society for Family Health: Leveraging Digital Platforms to Train Family Planning Service Providers

By Nigeria Health Watch | January 16, 2023

Mrs Gertrude Edom, the founder and chief executive officer of St Gertrude Maternity Centre located in Topland, a suburb in Enugu city, had just seen her last set of patients and was settling down to attend to her administrative tasks. Her clinical duties include maternal and child health, immunisation and family planning. She is one […]

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Assessing Service Readiness of Facilities under the Bauchi State Social Health Insurance Scheme

By Nigeria Health Watch | January 14, 2023

By Joy Ikott (Lead Writer) State Health Insurance Schemes are a vehicle through which State governments seek to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in accordance with the National Health Scheme Act, and the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Act. Bauchi State is one of the 35 states that has signed a State Social Health Insurance […]

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