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Kujama PHC Faces Drug Stockouts and Patient Neglect Amid Renovations

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 14, 2025

Every morning, women who are pregnant or with sick children arrive and line up at Kujama Primary Healthcare (PHC), Tudun Wada in Kaduna, but often leave with nothing more than a prescription and frustration. While renovations are ongoing to improve infrastructure, key barriers remain. Lack of essential drugs, insufficient space, and overcrowded wards impact the […]

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Strengthening Lassa Fever Vaccine Research and Trial Capacity in West Africa

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 13, 2025

Ibukun Oguntola and Oluomachukwu Omeje (Lead writers) In West Africa, Lassa fever remains a persistent and recurring health threat, causing hundreds of deaths each year and underscoring urgent need for sustained investment in research and vaccine manufacturing capacity. In the first five months of 2025 alone, Nigeria reported over 717 confirmed cases and 138 deaths, […]

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Increasing Access: ASHIA Cracks the Code on Health Insurance for Anambra’s Informal Sector

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 11, 2025

Tzar Oluigbo (Lead writer) Men in oil-stained overalls, shouting vehicle conductors and market women rushing to catch a Keke — a commercial tricycle. Nothing about this chaos at Caeli Park in Awka suggests that health insurance is being quietly rolled out. But that is exactly what is happening. Sunday Nwankwo, a taxi driver, was not feeling himself […]

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Nigeria’s Fight Against AMR: Why Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Matter

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 10, 2025

Zubaida Baba Ibrahim and Yasir Jamal Bakare (Lead writers) An act as small as washing hands with soap and water, can stop microbes from travelling farther than we imagine. This was evident and encouraged during the COVID-19 pandemic, when this simple habit became a major frontline defence, helping to slow the spread of a virus […]

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Local Voices Driving Trust and Demand for Polio Vaccines in Bauchi and Kebbi States

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 8, 2025

Solomon Yemi Oladimeji (Lead writer) In Northern Nigeria, where health systems often come face to face with socio-cultural beliefs, change does not arrive in white coats or government-issued badges. It comes in sandals, sits on prayer mats, and speaks the local language. April 2025 was not just another month in Nigeria’s long battle against polio; […]

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