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Nigeria’s Flood Season is Here. How Are We Protecting Children Before Disaster Strikes?

Aug 31, 2026
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Finding Ebola Earlier: Can Village-Based Surveillance Strengthen DRC’s Outbreak Response?

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eHealth Africa, Nigeria Health Watch Officially Launch Insights Learning Forum 2026 Report

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For Lazuru Tudai Residents in Kaduna, Accessing Healthcare Means a Long Journey to an Unsafe PHC

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Women Are Transforming the Global Health Workforce, But Not Yet Its Leadership

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Your eDokta Will See You Now: A Telemedicine Clinic is Bridging Maternal Health Gaps in Kano

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 21, 2025

Mahdi Garba (Lead writer) Salamatu Yusuf, a resident of Yanoko in Tofa Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano remembers how she used to walk about five kilometres, anytime she wants to access healthcare. This was her reality until February 2025, when the eDokta Telemedicine Clinic was launched in the Yanoko. “Before this clinic was brought […]

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Nigeria Health Watch to host the First Solutions Journalism Africa Summit

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 20, 2025

For decades, media coverage of Africa has been dominated by a narrow and often negative lens, focusing largely on poverty, hunger, corruption, and conflict. While these issues exist, they have too often overshadowed the continent’s diverse realities and thriving innovations. According to Africa No Filter, Africa loses up to $4.2 billion annually due to unrepresentative […]

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How Antimicrobial Resistance Threatens Maternal Health in Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 18, 2025

Chinwe Catherine Eze and Tzar Oluigbo (Lead writers) In maternity wards across sub-Saharan Africa, the battle for life is fought on two fronts: against the complications of childbirth, and against infections that refuse to respond to treatment. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the ability of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites to withstand medicines that once worked, is […]

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Why Expanding MPDSR Across Nigerian States Is Key to Ending Preventable Maternal Deaths

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 17, 2025

Maureen Moneke (Lead writer) Every maternal or perinatal death carries two tragedies, the life lost and the lessons that go unlearned when the circumstances of that death are not reviewed and acted upon. Most maternal deaths can be prevented when health systems identify root causes, act on drivers, and close existing gaps. Where this continuous […]

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Kofa’s Healthcare Struggle Where a Shop Became a Clinic

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 16, 2025

When labour pains struck Maryam Hassan one stormy night, her neighbours rushed to fetch “a doctor” who is the Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of Kofa Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC) in Niger State. With the only clinic abandoned due to a bat infestation, her options were limited: a crammed shop converted into a clinic or an arduous 10-kilometre […]

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