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World Contraception Day: A Safe Start Begins Long Before Birth

Sep 26, 2026
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Revitalised Ungwan Dosa PHC Still Faces Access Gaps

Sep 24, 2026
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Real-Time Patient Feedback Is Helping Shape Safer and Better Maternity Care

Sep 23, 2026
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The Real Test of Nigeria’s Health Reforms Is Whether PHCs Actually Work

Sep 21, 2026
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Niger State’s PHCs Are Screening Beyond TB. Can the Model Last?

Sep 19, 2026
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Winning the Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation in Cross River State

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 18, 2022

By Violet Ikong (Lead Writer) Female Genital Mutilation is a harmful cultural practice that violates the rights of girls and women. Although Nigeria’s Violence Against People Prohibition Act criminalises it, FGM is still common across the country. The Center for Social Value and Early Childhood Development (CESVED), a non-profit run by Gift and Augustine Abu […]

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Strengthening Health Security Cannot Be Achieved Without Universal Health Coverage and Effective Primary Health Care – Medical Experts Advocates

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 16, 2022

…Multiple Stakeholders gathered to discuss Nigeria’s health security To strengthen health security and a decentralized health system in Nigeria with regards to epidemic preparedness, the Federal Government of Nigeria has been encouraged to not only pay keen attention to strengthening human resources for health security but also set data and accountability structure at the national […]

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 15th July 2022

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 15, 2022

Post COVID-19 Assessment: Stakeholders brainstorm on ways to decentralise health security in Nigeria. Nigeria loses over $2bn annually to medical tourism —Association. CSOs set to launch report on PHC service delivery in Nigeria. World population to reach 8 billion by November – UN. Report: 121m unintended pregnancies occur globally each year. FG under moral burden […]

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Nigeria must improve health services for mothers and babies: here’s what can change

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 13, 2022

By Jamilu Tukur, Bayero University, Kano Nigeria is one of the largest contributors to maternal and newborn (neonatal) deaths in the world. It’s estimated that in 2017 the country accounted for more than 20% of the global deaths of women due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth. In 2018, the maternal death rate was 512 […]

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She Writes Woman: Giving Mental Health a Voice in Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 11, 2022

In Nigeria, the road to a mental illness diagnosis is often fraught with shame, stigma and secrecy. People living with mental health conditions need to know that they are not alone and can get professional help. For a significant part of her life, Hauwa Ojeifo had struggled with extreme mood and energy swings, which, coupled […]

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