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Real-Time Patient Feedback Is Helping Shape Safer and Better Maternity Care

Sep 23, 2026
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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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A Year of Progress at Kofar Fada PHC, Kano State, But the Work Is Not Done

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 2, 2025

Hadiza Musa (Lead Writer) According to Malam Isa Muhammad Abbas, the Chief Imam of Wudil, the women in the community feel uncomfortable being attended to by male health workers. “We need more female staff at our health centre,” he said during a town hall meeting in Wudil, Kano, which was organised by Nigeria Health Watch […]

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Nigeria’s PHC Revitalisation: Ambition, Reality, and the Urgency for Accountability

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 1, 2025

Safiya Shuaibu Isa and Solomon Yemi Oladimeji (Lead writers) For millions of Nigerians, primary healthcare (PHC) remains the first point of contact for their health needs. It is where mothers go for antenatal visits, children receive their first vaccinations, and families turn for treatment of everyday illnesses. This centrality of PHCs to community health is not only […]

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HeliumCredit is Financing Africa’s Private Clinics, One Loan at a Time

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 29, 2025

Tzar Oluigbo (Lead writer) Across Nigeria, many privately-owned healthcare facilities face funding bottleneck. Pharmacies watch their shelves empty as they struggle to restock essential drugs. Laboratories, unable to afford new equipment needed for diagnoses, and clinics are forced to turn patients away, as they face financial constraints that limit the services they can provide. For […]

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Driving Health Reforms Through Transformational Primary Healthcare in Nasarawa

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 27, 2025

Tzar Oluigbo (Lead writer) Primary healthcare (PHC) is the backbone of a resilient health system and should serve as the first point of contact with the healthcare system for most Nigerians. Yet, despite decades of investment, the PHC system continues to underperform, leaving many communities underserved and vulnerable. According to a report by the PharmAccess […]

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Black Market for Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food is Putting Nigerian Children at Risk

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 26, 2025

Zubaida Baba Ibrahim and Aaron Bawala (Lead writers) The shortage of life-saving Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) in health facilities across the northern part of Nigeria, where they are meant to be provided free of charge to malnourished children, has become deeply concerning. What makes this even more alarming is that these supplies, meant to save […]

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