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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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Investing in Sexual and Reproductive Health is Key to Nigeria’s Health and Growth

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 30, 2025

Maureen Moneke and Christopher Bassey (Lead writers) Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) is crucial in attaining several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly those on good health and wellbeing, quality education, gender equality and reduced inequalities. In Nigeria, this urgency is heightened by its youthful population, which makes up about 70% of the country’s […]

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Enugu’s Type 2 Primary Healthcare Centres Bring Quality Healthcare Closer to Communities

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 28, 2025

Tzar Oluigbo (Lead writer) “The goal of citing Primary Health Centres is that people should not have to walk for more than 5 kilometres to access them,” — World Health Organization recommendation. Beneath the shade of a mango tree, a group of women in Otuku, a small community in Enugu East Local Government Area (LGA) of Enugu […]

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Lights Out, Lives Lost: The Human Cost of Hospital Blackouts on Maternal Health

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 27, 2025

Sunday Oko and Mahdi Garba (Lead writers)“Thirty minutes into my wife’s C-section, NEPA [a colloquial term for electricity distribution companies] interrupted [the hospital’s] electricity,” recalled Shehu Danjuma Umar, in a Facebook post. He added that the government-owned facility had no fuel for the back-up generator meant to power the theatre. When fuel eventually arrived, the […]

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A Shop Turned Clinic as Badari Fights for Healthcare Access

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 24, 2025

Childbirth is a gamble in Badari, Kano State, with no health centre in sight. Resident’s survival depends on luck and local goodwill. Badari, a rural community in Gwarzo Local Government Area, has lacked a functioning health facility for over five years since the only health post which served the community collapsed. With an estimated population […]

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Lafiya Sisters Expand Contraceptive Access for Women in Hard-to-Reach Jigawa Communities

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 22, 2025

Mahdi Garba (Lead writer) Ikhlas Yusuf Yaqub, a full-time midwife at Dutse General Hospital, still finds time to volunteer with Lafiya Nigeria, an international non-governmental organisation (NGO) working to increase the uptake of family planning commodities in Jigawa State to reduce maternal mortality. Since 2022, she has been a member of the Lafiya Sisters, a […]

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