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Africa’s Precision Medicine Future Depends on Stronger Research and Clinical Trial Systems

Jun 04, 2026
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‘Garden in a Box’ Initiative is Helping Pregnant Women Eat Nutritious Food While Building Self-Reliance Through Gardening

Jun 01, 2026
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“Deliver Like the Hebrew Women”: How Traditional Myths and Religious Misconceptions Fuel Maternal and Child Deaths

May 30, 2026
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How the Enable Study Is Building Clinical Trial Capacity and Epidemic Readiness in Bauchi State

May 29, 2026
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One Vision, One Future: Why Africa's Health Financing Is a Global Reset

May 27, 2026
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One Square Meal a Day – Home-Grown Feeding Programme Keeping Niger State Children in School

By | May 9, 2022

By Kenneth Ibe and Ikemefuna Igwe (Lead Writers) In 2017, the Federal Government of Nigeria introduced the home-grown school feeding programme (HGSFP) in primary schools across the country. The programme provides one square meal every day to pupils in public primary schools, with the aim of encouraging school attendance, combating malnutrition and promoting local economic […]

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We have a health facility, but no health workers: Ashuwa community cries out.

By | May 6, 2022

In 2012, a Primary Health Centre (PHC)) was built for the people of Ashuwa community, a rural community in Magama Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State. This was a welcome development as, for the first time ever, they were able to access their healthcare needs with ease. Before the PHC was built, community members […]

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 6th May 2022

By | May 6, 2022

Ensuring hand hygiene will help prevent infections in hospitals —Physician. WHO: COVID-19 Pandemic Killed Close To 17 Million Within Two Years. ‘Nigeria Not Where It Should Be On Immunisation Agenda 2030’. AGING AND FERTILITY HEALTH IN FEMALES. ‘Access To Quality Maternal Health Drugs Can Cut Nigeria’s Maternal Mortality By 50%’. Severe Malaria Can Cause Convulsions, […]

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HeforShe: Enlisting Men in the Family Planning Discourse

By | May 4, 2022

In 2018, on a work assignment to a rural community in Kebbi State, our team interviewed a woman who had given birth to 24 children. Her elderly husband had prevented her from going to a local clinic to get advice about family planning. He did not believe in it and was open to having more […]

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Leveraging Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Access to Quality Maternal Medicines

By | May 2, 2022

The quality of healthcare a woman receives during pregnancy, delivery and postpartum is critical as it determines whether she lives or dies. Evidence shows that a majority of the maternal medicines used to treat the leading cause of maternal mortality (postpartum haemorrhage) in circulation in Nigeria are sub-standard. Consumers of sub-standard medicines might never be […]

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