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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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Nigeria Needs a Stronger Evidence System to Track Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage

Sep 17, 2026
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‘We Can’t Take Deliveries’: Shongo Hamma Health Post Leaves Pregnant Women Without Maternal Care in Gombe’s Akko Community

Sep 17, 2026
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Global Fund Report Shows Countries Fought to Protect Essential Health Services Despite Challenging Year

Sep 16, 2026
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How The Facility Health Committee is Keeping Krosha Clinic Open Amid Neglect and Decay

By Nigeria Health Watch | December 18, 2025

For residents of Krosha, in Kaduna State, keeping their only health clinic open has become a daily struggle shadowed by decay, neglect, and fear. What happens when a community’s only lifeline for care is at risk of collapsing, both physically and systemically? Krosha Health Clinic is a Health Post serving Krosha and several neighbouring communities, […]

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Beyond Aid: How Health Data Is Becoming the New Currency of Global Power

By Nigeria Health Watch | December 18, 2025

Oladimeji Solomon Yemi (Lead writer)For decades, global health governance was shaped by aid flows, multilateral institutions, and shared norms of solidarity. Countries received funding, technical assistance, and essential commodities through systems anchored in organisations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund), UK Foreign, […]

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Linking Informal Providers to Better Primary Care in Urban Communities

By Nigeria Health Watch | December 15, 2025

Iheomimichineke Ojiakor (Guest writer) When Grace’s son developed a high fever one evening in Ikirike, an informal settlement in Enugu, the nearest primary health care (PHC) centre was closed. She unable to fford the transport fare to the next hospital, a journey that previously cost about ₦2000, had risen to nearly ₦5000. Like many families […]

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From Stored Harvests in Kenya to Lost Farmlands in Nigeria: How Communities Face Two Climate Realities

By Nigeria Health Watch | December 14, 2025

Abjata Khalif and Abdullahi Muritala (Lead writers) In the remote drylands of Isiolo County in northern Kenya, Chuqlisa Arero and her fellow livestock keepers have borne the brunt of prolonged droughts that have devastated their herds and livelihoods. The dryland region in Kenya is characterised by frequent droughts and harsh climatic conditions. However, the 2021–2023 […]

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Is the BHCPF Nigeria’s Best Bet for Achieving Universal Health Coverage- If It Is Properly Funded?

By Nigeria Health Watch | December 12, 2025

Sonia Biose and Sunday Oko (Lead writer)Every year on 12 December, the world pauses to reflect on one simple promise, that no one should be pushed into poverty because they are not well. However, as we mark Universal Health Coverage (UHC) Day, the theme, “Unaffordable health costs? We are sick of it!” is a clear […]

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