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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

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A Classroom Clinic: Bringing Malaria Diagnosis and Treatment to Schools in Malawi

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 17, 2021

By Rabson Kondowe (Lead Writer) Clara still vividly remembers the day in 2019 she felt unwell while at school. “I was in Mathematics class, then all of a sudden my body was very hot, I was sweating and I had a headache. I felt weak,” says the 14-year-old. “I informed my teacher and he took […]

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 14th May 2021

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 14, 2021

COVID-19: healthcare, pharmaceuticals get N84bn from CBN. COVID-19 variants: Lagos places 14 countries on the watch list. WHO to stop funding polio eradication in Nigeria, Africa by 2022. Abuja authorities announce the deadline for the current COVID-19 vaccination. Lagos announces a new vaccination strategy to prevent COVID-19 third wave. COVID-19: Nationwide curfew not re-introduced ― […]

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Make it look good - How perception adjustment for local foods can impact malnutrition in Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 12, 2021

Four-year-old Terwase is not in school yet, so he often goes with his mother to the market where she has a small trinkets shop. Terwase gets hungry during the day, and the hot and dry Abuja weather makes him cranky. When they make sales, his mother buys him ‘puff puff’ from Mama Ben down the […]

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Kano State created a budget line for epidemic preparedness; Here’s how CSOs helped make it happen

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 10, 2021

By Ibukun Oguntola & Gabriel Oke (Lead Writers) The health security of a nation comprises the activities that lessen adverse public health incidents and ensures a healthy and productive population. It is vital to developing strong and resilient health systems that can prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats, wherever they occur. Nigeria has […]

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Bayelsa Health Summit 2021 - Building back better and stronger

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 8, 2021

By Dr. Chijioke Kaduru (Guest Writer) There is widespread consensus around the globe on the need to strengthen health systems and make them more resilient. A health system includes all of the different institutions, actors and resources involved in delivering healthcare to individuals. Despite this accord, there is continued debate exactly how individual countries should […]

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