Follow us
Nigeria Health Watch
Follow us:
Subscribe to our Newsletter
breadcrumb banner

Articles

Search

Categories

Recent Posts

Post Image

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

Jun 01, 2026
Post Image

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

May 30, 2026
Post Image

How the Enable Study Is Building Clinical Trial Capacity and Epidemic Readiness in Bauchi State

May 29, 2026
Post Image

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

May 27, 2026
Post Image

The Bundibugyo Ebola Outbreak Shows Why Preparedness Cannot Wait

May 25, 2026
Blog Image 11 Jan

MSF: Fractioning doses of yellow fever vaccine can help save more lives during outbreaks

By | January 11, 2021

WHO will change its guidelines to recommend using partial doses of the yellow fever vaccine during emergencies as a result of new clinical trial data NEW YORK/PARIS, JANUARY 8, 2021—Giving people a fraction of a yellow fever vaccine is effective and could help vaccinate millions more people during emergencies, according to results of a recent […]

Read More
Blog Image 8 Jan

Top Ten News Items on Health, 8th January 2021

By | January 8, 2021

Nigeria: WHO endorses Pfizer vaccine for Covid-19 immunisation in Nigeria. COVID-19: FG moves to allay fears among Nigerian populace on vaccine safety. Buhari assents Disability Bill, inaugurates National Commission for Persons with Disabilities. Nigeria now has capacity to store COVID-19 vaccine –NPHCDA. COVID-19 Protocols: FG threatens travel ban on defaulting VIPs, govt officials.  Increased testing […]

Read More
Blog Image 6 Jan

“I decided to be pregnant with my wife” – Men as nurturers for healthy pregnancy and delivery

By | January 6, 2021

Aloysius Chidiebere Ugwu (Lead Writer) In January 2020, in the middle of the dry season known as harmattan in Nigeria, I was in Kano state performing my duties as a health advocate when I received news from my wife which redefined my plans for the next nine months. “Babe, I think my body is changing, […]

Read More
Blog Image 4 Jan

How Tayi PHC in Niger is increasing FP services through community-focused advocacy

By | January 4, 2021

By Bashar Abubakar (Lead Writer) Habiba Aliyu, 20, gave birth to her first child in 2019 while preparing to begin her journey as a health worker. As a student at a health training institution in Niger State, Aliyu wants to become a Community Health Extension Worker (CHEW). ‘’All my life I wanted to be a […]

Read More
Blog Image 30 Dec

No Retreat No Surrender: Celebrating frontline responders in the fight against COVID-19 in Africa

By | December 30, 2020

By Beti Baiye & Patience Adejo (Lead Writers) It is not surprising that the fight against COVID-19 has introduced a great deal of military metaphors in the media globally. The world has been at war with a virus and from the outset, healthcare workers of different cadres have been at the frontline of defense between […]

Read More