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Analytical and opinion-led pieces that examine the policy, governance, and political economy shifts shaping health in Nigeria, Africa, and globally. This category features evidence-informed arguments and critical reflections that interrogate assumptions, clarify trade-offs, and point to practical reforms. The goal is to strengthen advocacy and decision making by linking ideas to real system constraints and opportunities.

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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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Global Fund Report Shows Countries Fought to Protect Essential Health Services Despite Challenging Year

Sep 16, 2026
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Universal Health Care in Nigeria: Accelerating the NHIA Act’s Implementation

By Nigeria Health Watch | February 15, 2023

By Oluoma Omeje, Joy Uzoho, Patience Adejo and Abdulmajeed Abdulsalam (Lead Writers) In February 2023, the Director General of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Professor Mohammed Sambo, inaugurated a committee to develop the NHIA Operational Guidelines. As the committee works to meet the 4-week deadline they have been given, here are learnings from Ghana […]

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Public Health Communication During a Health Emergency: What We Have Learned

By Nigeria Health Watch | February 11, 2023

By Vivianne Ihekweazu & Onyinye Oranezi (Lead writers) “We’ve learned collectively that transparency, openness, and the communication of credible information to people in real-time results in functional responses by people”- Dr Mike Ryan, Executive Director of WHO Health Emergencies Programme Communications during public health emergenciesThe COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the significance of credible information and communication, as […]

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From the Lunacy Act to the First Mental Health Act in Nigeria: Five Takeaways

By Nigeria Health Watch | February 8, 2023

By Aloysius Ugwu and Beti Baiye In January 2023, a little over six decades after the Lunacy Act of 1958 was established, giving medical practitioners the power to detain people suffering from mental illnesses, President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law Nigeria’s first Mental Health Bill, the National Mental Health Act, 2021. The Lunacy Ordinance enacted […]

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Why We Must Accelerate the Inclusion of Noma as a Neglected Tropical Disease

By Nigeria Health Watch | February 1, 2023

A mysterious figure dressed all in black, she appeared to be invisible as she slipped through the Laraba (Wednesday) market crowd in my village in northern Nigeria. The only visible features were her eyes and her right hand which she used to support the veil that covered the lower half of her face. As she […]

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Africa at a Public Health Crossroads: Five Lessons from the 2nd International Conference on Public Health in Africa 2022

By Nigeria Health Watch | January 26, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic opened a ‘Pandora’s box’ of never-ending problems putting enormous pressure on global health systems, exposing biases in global public health practices and disrupting global economies. There was also the loud warning about the need to reform and revitalise global health systems, which was difficult to ignore. Today, Africa appears to be at […]

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