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Insightful analysis of the policies, politics, and power shaping health across Africa. This category features evidence-informed perspectives that interrogate assumptions, surface trade-offs, and propose actionable reforms, helping policymakers, practitioners, and advocates navigate complex health systems and drive more effective, context-aware decisions.

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Extraordinary Humans – The Hospitals For Humanity Team visits Abuja

By | June 7, 2016

Reading Nigerian newspapers, or browsing the plethora of social media platforms, it is easy to think that the country is doomed. On some days, this feels especially so in the health sector. There seems to be no end to the list of things that are not working for Nigerians when it comes to their health. […]

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Five takeaways of the 69th World Health Assembly from a Nigerian Perspective

By | May 31, 2016

The 69th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization held between the 23rd and 28th of May in Geneva. It had a very heavy agenda and is reported to have had its largest attendance ever. We may have contributed to this, given it was our first WHA. High on the agenda was WHO reform, […]

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The Global Fund, Governance and the Shame of a Country

By | May 24, 2016

Gloria is a vibrant young lady who is “living positively” with HIV. She featured on our #OpenMoH radio show five months ago and shared with us the difficulties faced by people living with HIV (PLHIV) in accessing their life-saving antiretrovirals (ARVs). At that point there was a drug stock-out at most health facilities where PLHIVs […]

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Special Edition: Conference brings attention to Tuberculosis in Nigeria

By | May 16, 2016

In the week that a major announcement was made by WHO shortening the treatment of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, the scientific community is coming together with health care workers and public health practitioners to share knowledge on one of the major public health challenges of our time: Tuberculosis. Nigeria has more tuberculosis cases than any country in Africa, […]

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Five big issues at the International Conference of Midwives in Abuja

By | May 10, 2016

  May 5 was this year’s International Day of the Midwife. To commemorate this day in Nigeria, The Wellbeing Foundation Africa, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund and The National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) hosted the first Global Midwifery Conference in Nigeria on May 4th and 5th. With Nigeria accounting for the […]

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