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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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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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An Initiative’s Quest to Ensure Access to Health Insurance For People Living With Sickle Cell Anaemia

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 30, 2024

Chinonso Kenneth (Lead Writer) At just seven months old, Sharon Akilo, now 17, was diagnosed with Sickle Cell Anemia (SCA), a genetic disorder that affects the production of hemoglobin in the body, causing red blood cells to become sickled or crescent shaped. This condition would go on to define much of her life, making her […]

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