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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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In Nigeria’s Off-Grid Communities, Solar-Powered Electricity is Improving Primary Healthcare Delivery 

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 25, 2024

Arinze Chijioke (Lead Writer) Augustine Joseph was fully aware of the dire power supply situation in Fish Town when he arrived to establish a healthcare centre in November 2021. Fish Town, located in the coastal Bayelsa State, is an oil-producing community that had endured decades without any government or privately-sourced electricity. The donated generator from […]

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Smart Meters Bring Water Savings to Nigerian Households

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 11, 2024

Mahdi Garba (Lead writer) After relocating to an estate in Utako, a district in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, Jonas Odocha discovered a smart water meter effectively addressing his previous concerns about estimated billing, water scarcity, and wastage in his former residence in Maitama. “Now, you pay only for the water you use,” Odocha noted. “The meter […]

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A Boat-Based Initiative is Helping Akwa Ibom Reach Zero-Dose Children in Remote Riverine Communities

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 3, 2024

Kenneth Ibe and Abara Erim (Lead Writers) In a small, isolated fishing community in Eastern Obolo, Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria’s south-south region, Ekong Asuquo, a resident of the community sits by the river, her eyes distant and heavy with grief. It has been a year since she lost two of her children to a […]

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Protecting the Future: Kano’s Global Shapers Educate Schoolgirls on HPV and Its Vaccine

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 20, 2024

Mahdi Garba [Lead writer] When Radeeyah Nasir is not at her job as a registrar in the obstetrics and gynaecology unit of Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Teaching Hospital, Kano, she is part of a team of volunteers raising awareness about the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), among secondary school students in states across Nigeria’s northwest. “There are […]

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Safe Deliveries and Healthy Beginnings: How MSF Is Tackling Maternal and Neonatal Deaths in Jigawa

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 12, 2024

Mahdi Garba (Lead Writer) Hansai Umaru, 22, sits on her hospital bed, blissfully breastfeeding her baby with her mother by her side. Hansai has four children, all of whom were born by Caesarean Section (CS). Although she had previously had three successful deliveries with no major complications, her most recent delivery took a frightening turn. […]

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