Follow us
Nigeria Health Watch
Follow us:
Subscribe to our Newsletter
breadcrumb banner

Thought Leadership Africa

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.

Search

Categories

Recent Posts

Post Image

Nigeria Must Turn Maternal Health Commitments into Functioning Care

Oct 14, 2026
Post Image

New Lassa Fever Evidence To Shape Vaccine Research And Outbreak Preparedness Across West Africa

Oct 12, 2026
Post Image

WHO Pandemic Hub sets ambitious goal to detect new outbreaks within 24 hours

Oct 12, 2026
Post Image

In Kenya, a Community Programme Supports Adolescent Mothers in Korogocho

Oct 12, 2026
Post Image

West African Health Organisation Supports Roundtable on Financing Lassa Fever Vaccine Development during the World Health Summit in Berlin (Germany)

Oct 10, 2026
Blog Image 10 May

Five big issues at the International Conference of Midwives in Abuja

By Nigeria Health Watch | 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 […]

Read More
Blog Image 3 May

As the Health Minister’s 10,000 PHC transformation agenda starts, we urge him to keep primary health care under ONE roof

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 3, 2016

We are in May. Later this month we will mark one year into the tenure of the Buhari administration, a quarter of its four-year mandate. Also in May, we anticipate the kick-off of the Minister’s promised “one newly functional” primary health centre per day. The appointment of Professor Isaac Adewole as Minister of Health was […]

Read More
Blog Image 22 Mar

On World Tuberculosis Day – Reflections on a Forgotten Epidemic

By Nigeria Health Watch | March 22, 2016

March 24 is World TB Day, yet for most people that have the privilege of reading this piece, tuberculosis is an abstract term. But, why would a disease that infects about half a million Nigerians every year, and kills about 170,000 annually attract so little attention from the government, the health professions and from the people? […]

Read More
Blog Image 15 Mar

Nigerian health policy makers gather in Sokoto for the 58th National Council on Health

By Nigeria Health Watch | March 15, 2016

Once every year, the Ministers of Health, leaders of all the health parastatals, and the commissioners of health and their teams gather to agree and harmonise health policy for the Federal Republic. It is the highest policy making body in the health sector for the country. So between the 7th and 11th of March 2016, […]

Read More
Blog Image 23 Feb

Reality check: Pictures from around Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch | February 23, 2016

We often sit in the big cities and talk and write about health issues. We attend conferences and seminars, dissemination events and policy dialogues. We debate about health policy reform and the national health agenda, we analyse the budget and ask policy makers hard questions.  Sometimes, we sit back and wonder how much they care. […]

Read More