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Trust Returns to Gurjiya PHC After Solar Battery Theft Resolution, Yet Accountability Concerns Persist

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How Antibiotic Abuse Fuel Deaths in Ghana: Pharmacies and street hawkers aid prescription disaster

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NACA, Global Fund and Partners to Convene National Close-Out Meeting on COVID-19 Response Mechanism Investments in Nigeria

Jun 24, 2026
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NHEA 2026 TO HONOUR HEALTHCARE ICONS AS NIGERIA’S PREMIER HEALTHCARE AWARDS RETURNS TO EKO HOTEL ON JUNE 26

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Beyond the Counter: How CareHub Is Linking Pharmacy Customers to Primary Health Care in Lagos

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State of Emergency: The Doctors’ Strike and the Brain Drain of the Health Care Workforce

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 28, 2021

In 2019, when my father was in the Intensive Care Unit of one of Nigeria’s biggest tertiary hospitals in the Federal Capital Territory, one of the most contentious issues my family experienced was the constant chasing after specialist doctors to assess him and answer our burning questions. We would wait hours for the single cardiologist […]

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 27th August 2021

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 27, 2021

NPHCDA sets Wednesday to begin the second dose of AstraZeneca vaccine. Resident doctors hold NEC meeting, resolve to continue strike. FG orders stoppage of striking doctors’ salaries. Cholera: Govs pledge to domesticate national health plan. Epidemic Preparedness: Despite COVID-19 lessons, healthcare funding still hovers below agreed threshold. Medical experts advocate use of Tech to accelerate […]

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Improving Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Nigeria: The Only Language Cholera Understands

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 25, 2021

Nigeria is prone to seasonal disease outbreaks and in the last few years, a series of outbreaks including monkeypox, measles, Lassa fever, yellow fever, cerebrospinal meningitis and cholera have threatened the nation’s public health security. In 2020, while responding to COVID-19, Nigeria was at the same time tackling what was reported as the largest recorded […]

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Lessons from Oleju: Improving Equality & Efficiency in Achieving Health for All

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 23, 2021

Gender inequality constitutes a major barrier to realising equitable access to health-care services. Promoting gender equality is a major component in promoting the right to health for all people. For Sandra Ogholi, Executive Director of the Rural Development and Reformation Foundation (RUDERF), this is the motivator behind the OLEJU project implemented by RUDERF. “I realised, […]

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Access Bank spotlights issues around blood donation with Employee Volunteering Scheme

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 23, 2021

In a bid to address issues surrounding the low rates of blood donation in the country, the Corporate Communications Group of Access Bank PLC, has partnered with Haima Health Initiative and the Lagos State Blood Transfusion Service to launch the Save a Life project. The initiative, which is an offshoot of Access Bank’s longstanding Employee […]

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