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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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What IMNHC 2026 Made Clear: Evidence Is Not Enough Without Delivery

Jul 16, 2026
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How a Zambian Community Turned Local Reports into an Early-Warning System

By Tzar Oluigbo | July 13, 2026

In Kanyama, a peri-urban settlement in Lusaka, Zambia, thirty-five-year-old Emmanuel Banda begins many mornings by moving house to house through the community where he lives and works. Banda is a polyvalent community-based volunteer, a health worker trained across multiple disease areas rather than one, to identify health risks before they escalate into emergencies. Kanyama is […]

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Three Months On, Gyartai PHC Still Lacks a Midwife

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 10, 2026

Every time a woman goes into labour in Gyartai, her family prepares for more than childbirth. They prepare for a risky home delivery or a journey to another community. Three months after residents demanded better maternal health services during a town hall meeting, Gyartai PHC still lacks a midwife, leaving safe delivery services out of […]

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COVID-19 Funding Built New Health Infrastructure. Will Nigeria Build on It or Lose It?

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 10, 2026

Oluwafolakemi Ajala (Guest writer) The arrival of COVID-19 in Nigeria in early 2020 exposed long-standing weaknesses in oxygen supply, diagnostics, surveillance, emergency response coordination and public health funding. In health facilities, access to medical oxygen was often inadequate and unreliable, and laboratory infrastructure was fragmented. Surveillance systems were under-resourced, and genomic sequencing capacity was limited, […]

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As Efforts Intensify to Contain Bundibugyo Ebola, Women Remain Most Vulnerable to Its Economic Impact

By Zubaida Baba-Ibrahim | July 6, 2026

The escalating Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak has sparked renewed international concern after French health authorities confirmed an imported case in a doctor returning from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on June 23. While the case marks the outbreak’s reach beyond endemic countries, the patient was immediately isolated, and contact tracing was initiated. The patient […]

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An Epidemic of Parastatals in Nigeria’s Health Sector

By Vivianne Ihekweazu | July 4, 2026

Over the past few months, several bills proposing new parastatals in Nigeria’s health sector have been introduced, creating considerable confusion across the sector. It is unclear what is driving these proposals or where the pressure for additional parastatals is coming from. There appears to be no demand from health professionals for these additional parastatals, as […]

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