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Nigeria’s Shifting Health Insurance Landscape: Why Faster Progress Cannot Wait

By Nigeria Health Watch | June 8, 2025

Olaoluwa Olatunde (Lead Writer) During my National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in 2021, while I was posted to the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) office a prominent government hospital in Abuja, an elderly woman, old enough to be my grandmother, approached me. She held in her hands a diagnosis form from her doctor, she urgently […]

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Digital Tools in Community Health: Ethiopia’s Example for Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch | June 6, 2025

Sonia Biose (Lead Writer) “Before I became a Community Health Worker, women in my village often gave birth at home without any medical help. Today, they call me first and I refer them to the health centres.” — Atsede (not real name), a Health Extension Worker (HEW). Across Ethiopia’s rural landscape, thousands of community health workers like […]

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Community Health Watch Reports Spur PHC Action in Niger State

By Nigeria Health Watch | June 5, 2025

Nigeria Health Watch’s Community Health Watch reports in Niger state have not only revealed gaps in the Primary Health Care (PHC) system but also ignited reforms. “Despite our differences in earlier reports, I think they are doing very well. I will rate them 90%,” says Dr. Ibrahim Dangana, the Honourable Commissioner for Ministry of PHC […]

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Africa Needs a Rethink on Global Health Funding – Here’s What Must Change

By Nigeria Health Watch | June 5, 2025

Dr Ebere Okereke and Dr Magda Robalo (Guest Writers) Last week, the world’s global health leaders gathered in Geneva, Switzerland, for the 78th World Health Assembly.The corridors buzzed with optimism and concern in equal measure, as participants navigated the increasingly volatile global health landscape, most notably destabilised by the United States’ decision to cut funding […]

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AbbaCare Insurance Brings Healthcare Solutions Within Reach of Kano’s Sickle Cell Patients

By Nigeria Health Watch | June 2, 2025

Mahdi Garba (Lead writer) Nusaiba Idris Muhammad, 23, lives with her low-income family in Shagari Quarters, Kano. She battles with the life-threatening symptoms of Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), as well as the high medical bills that comes with it. “In one visit to the hospital when drugs are prescribed for me, my family spends at […]

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