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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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Nigeria Set to Host Global Interministerial Conference on AMR: Time to Mobilise the Private Sector

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 12, 2025

Emeka Oguanuo and Christopher Bassey (Lead writers) Nigeria will make history as the first African country to host the Global Interministerial Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), scheduled for June 29–30, 2026. Announcing this milestone and inaugurating the Ministerial Advisory Planning Committee , comprising Nigeria’s three ministries, Health, Livestock Development, and Environment, under the leadership of the […]

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Nigeria Inaugurates First NHIA Governing Council to Drive Universal Health Coverage

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 11, 2025

The Federal Government of Nigeria has inaugurated the first-ever Governing Council of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), following the enactment of the NHIA Act in 2022. This landmark move is part of ongoing efforts to strengthen health insurance governance and accelerate progress towards achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Nigeria. The NHIA Act of […]

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The Chilling Consequences of a Closed Clinic in Wambai

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 11, 2025

The hope of quality healthcare fades behind a closed clinic, where expectant mothers are left to face life-threatening labour at home without skilled help. “I prayed for this child for eleven years,” Mariya Sani, a member of the community, said. “But when labour started, our clinic was locked. I turned to other women for help. […]

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National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) Convenes 7th National Council on AIDS (NCA) Meeting in Lagos

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 10, 2025

The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) is pleased to announce the convening of the 7th National Council on AIDS (NCA) Meeting, scheduled to take place in Lagos State with support from Lagos State Agency for the Control of AIDS in August under the theme: “Advancing National HIV Sustainability Agenda in the Changing […]

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Conditional Cash Transfers Are Improving Maternal Health Outcomes in Jigawa State

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 7, 2025

Mahdi Garba (Lead writer) Fatima Sanusi, 27, has been benefiting from Jigawa State’s Conditional Cash Transfer Programme for the past five months. After being enrolled in the programme in Mafitar Sarki community in Hadejia Local Government Area (LGA), she began receiving 5,000 Naira (about US$ 4) monthly. She is expected to benefit from this scheme […]

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