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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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Institute of Lassa Fever Research and Control: Strengthening Nigeria’s Local Capacity to Lead the Lassa Fever Response

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 4, 2022

By Beti Baiye and Ibukun Oguntola The driveway in the grounds of the Irrua Specialist Teaching Hospital (ISTH) is large and welcoming and as you enter the hospital premises, the hospital’s motto: ‘Patient is Supreme’ catches the eye. The hospital was founded in 1993 to manage viral haemorrhagic fever including Lassa fever and over the […]

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From the Darkest of Days to a New Dawn: 35 Years of the Nigerian Response to HIV and AIDS

By Nigeria Health Watch | June 27, 2022

From the Darkest of Days to a New dawn: 35 years of the Nigerian Response to HIV and AIDS is the title of a seminal book just published by a team of institutions that have been part of the AIDS response in Nigeria, for the past 35 years. The book was launched on the 14th […]

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Making Good on a Promise: How Nasarawa State Vaccinated Seventy Percent of its Eligible Population

By Nigeria Health Watch | June 13, 2022

By Gabriel Oke (Lead Writer) Nigeria’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign is not a competition and there are no prizes for the state that successfully vaccinates all of its eligible population first, but the fact that Nasarawa State has vaccinated over 70% of its eligible population, putting it ahead of all but one of its neighbouring states, […]

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Achieving a Minimum Service Package in Primary Health Care: The Kano State Roadmap

By Bashar Abubakar | June 6, 2022

Over the years, Nigeria has developed various initiatives aimed at improving Primary Health Care (PHC) delivery in the country. One of such initiatives was the Primary Health Care Under One Roof (PHCUOR) programme, launched in 2011 and designed to improve primary healthcare services through the integration of all PHC services delivered under one authority. The Minimum […]

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Medicines Should Save Lives: Here’s How DrugStoc is Ensuring This Happens for Nigerians

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 30, 2022

As a Procurement and Supply Management (PSM) officer, when Chukwunonso Umeh began his search for a vendor who could supply some of the life-saving commodities needed for a project he was working on, one organisation ticked all his boxes. His project is helping to accelerate nutrition results in Nigeria and aims to increase utilisation of […]

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