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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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West Africa Unite in Abidjan to Fast-Track Lassa Fever Vaccine and Strengthen Epidemic Preparedness

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 13, 2025

The 2nd ECOWAS Lassa Fever International Conference (#ELFIC 2025) concluded this Thursday 11 September 2025 in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, after four days of high-level discussions, knowledge sharing, and strategic commitments. The gathering brought together more than 800 policymakers, scientists, health professionals, and development partners from across West Africa and beyond to confront one of the […]

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West African Health Ministers Unite for Lassa Fever Vaccine Readiness: A Historic Step for Regional Health Security

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 12, 2025

Uwaifiokun Okhuarobo (Lead writer) The ECOWAS Lassa International Conference builds on the first convening held in Abuja in 2019, when the country came together to mark fifty years since the discovery of Lassa fever. Despite decades of scientific effort, no viable vaccine had yet been developed. That moment made clear just how urgently countries needed […]

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In Unguwan Jatau, Mothers Reach the Clinic Only to Face New Struggles

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 11, 2025

For expectant mothers in Unguwan Jatau, the struggle is not about reaching the clinic but about what awaits them when they arrive. “Look at this hospital, but it’s of no use to us,” Lois Bamayi, a pregnant woman who visited the health facility for antenatal services, lamented. Unguwan Jatau Health Clinic, located in Gadani ward […]

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A New Dawn in Healthcare: Mandating Health Insurance for Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 9, 2025

Yasir Jamal Bakare and Ibukun Oguntola (Lead writers) President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s directive mandating all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) to enrol their employees under the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) marks a significant policy inflection point in Nigeria’s universal health coverage (UHC) journey. It moves health insurance from the realm of voluntary uptake into […]

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West African Leaders Commit to Advance Lassa Fever Vaccine For the Region

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 9, 2025

In an historic moment for regional solidarity and leadership, West African Ministers of Health pledge their joint commitment to advance the development of, and readiness for, much-needed vaccines against Lassa fever in recognition of the significant threat to regional health security posed by the disease. On September 8, 2025, Ministers of Health from across the […]

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