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Solutions-focused reporting on what is working, how it works, and what it takes to sustain and scale impact. We examine policies, programmes, and community-led innovations that are improving health outcomes, and we explain the “how” behind performance, including design, leadership, financing, implementation, and accountability. These stories help practitioners and decision makers adapt proven approaches to new contexts.

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A Healthcare System Ensures Health Coverage for Nigeria’s Almajiri Children

By Nigeria Health Watch | December 16, 2024

Chinonso Kenneth (Lead writer) In 2014, Mohammed Keana accompanied a group of colleagues from the London School of Health & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) who were engaged in a research programme in Gombe State to try out the street food in the state’s capital. What followed was profound and gave him a lifelong purpose. While waiting […]

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Meet the Women Reshaping Nigeria’s Digital Health Sector: How an Internship Programme Became Gender-Transformative

By Nigeria Health Watch | November 8, 2024

By Chisom Ohazurume, Otse Ogorry, Caitlin Showalter, Jesse Hastings, Laura Osterndorf Aequalis and Laurence ClaussenDespite ongoing efforts to empower more African women to join the technology sector, and some promising recent signs of a surge of female-led businesses, the digital health sector in Nigeria, like the digital health sector globally, is still largely dominated by […]

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Empowering Communities: Civil Society Drives Health Security Initiatives in Kano State

By Nigeria Health Watch | November 5, 2024

In 2024, the global burden of infectious diseases has been significant, with the resurgence of diseases, including mpox. Since January, the mpox outbreak has resulted in 29,152 reported cases , marking a 177 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2023. The outbreak has spread across all five regions in Africa, resulting in 738 […]

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Transforming Rural Healthcare through GEANCO’s Modular Clinics

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 22, 2024

Tzar Oluigbo (Lead Writer) One day at a time, one community at a time, GEANCO Foundation is driving down maternal and child mortality in the rural and urban poor communities where they work. When you walk into any community where the GEANCO Foundation is scaling up healthcare with its modular clinic model, what you find […]

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AfriVacx: Overcoming Vaccine Hesitancy in Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 2, 2024

Tzar Oluigbo (Lead Writer) When Okorie Nneoma, a mother of three, first heard about a vaccination outreach near her community in Nsukka, Enugu, she initially hesitated. She, like many mothers in her village, had reservations about vaccinations and their relevance, fueled by years of misinformation, and cultural and religious beliefs. “I was scared about vaccines […]

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