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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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The Street is Not a Home: Illuminating Streetism in Cross River State

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 5, 2023

By Bernard Assim- Ita and Samuel Gada (Lead Writers) Editor’s Note: Reports from the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly reveal that we are behind in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. But just how far off track are we? As we strive to achieve the ambitious goals laid out in the […]

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#ThePowerOfOptions: Improving Maternal Health through Increased Access to Contraception

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 26, 2023

Onyedikachi Ewe (Lead Writer) Contraceptive choices are crucial in empowering women and couples to take control of their reproductive health. In addition to protecting women and girls from unplanned pregnancies and unsafe abortions, contraceptive use promotes the overall well-being of the mother, child, and family. However, despite awareness of family planning, there is still a […]

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Reducing Maternal Mortality in Nigeria: The SHI Response

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 18, 2023

Chinonso Kenneth (Lead Writer) In 2016, Dr. Oluwakemisola Agoyi and Dr. Roland Ojo witnessed the benefits and drawbacks of traditional and community-based birth attendants (TBAs and CBAs) in delivering infants in rural and urban communities across Nigeria. During their community immersion programme as medical students at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Dr Agoyi recounted, […]

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Nigeria’s 2023 Joint External Evaluation: Progress in the Right Direction

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 12, 2023

Oguntola Ibukun and Sonia Biose (Lead Writers) ­Nigeria, like many other African nations with similar complexities, has had its fair share of challenges in responding to disease outbreaks. In recent years, the country has experienced multiple outbreaks of infectious diseases such as Lassa Fever, Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM), Ebola, resurgences of Yellow Fever and Mpox, as […]

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Making Happiness Local: How a Project is Improving Access to Mental Healthcare in Imo State

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 6, 2023

“Do you know that there’s only one psychiatrist in the whole of Imo State?” — This was a line in a post published by Onyekachi Onumara on his Facebook page on the 29th of August 2023. As expected, the post, which he closed with the hashtag #MentalHealthGap, attracted several responses, with many saying it was inaccurate. In […]

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