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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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How PHC Accountability Tracka Is Empowering Communities to Demand Better Healthcare

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 6, 2025

Prudence Enema and Hadiza Mohammed (Lead Writers) In Maitumbi, a community in Niger State, mothers continue to give birth on mats laid on the floor of the local health centre, a level two facility meant to benefit from the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF). When it rains, patients are forced to huddle in corners […]

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HeliumCredit is Financing Africa’s Private Clinics, One Loan at a Time

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 29, 2025

Tzar Oluigbo (Lead writer) Across Nigeria, many privately-owned healthcare facilities face funding bottleneck. Pharmacies watch their shelves empty as they struggle to restock essential drugs. Laboratories, unable to afford new equipment needed for diagnoses, and clinics are forced to turn patients away, as they face financial constraints that limit the services they can provide. For […]

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IntegratE Project Boosts Community Access to Family Planning Services in Kano

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 22, 2025

Mahdi Garba (Lead writer) For more than five years, Dauda Musa has run a patent medicine shop in Rano Local Government Area (LGA), Kano. In 2023, after receiving formal training through the IntegratE project, he began offering family planning services, an example of how building the capacity of patent medicine vendors can improve access to […]

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Telemedicine is Advancing Quality Care and Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 15, 2025

Olaoluwa Olatunde and Sonia Biose (Lead writers) Universal Health Coverage (UHC) hinges on the fundamental principle that individuals should be able to access the full range of “quality” healthcare, without suffering financial hardship. A key element of “quality healthcare” is timeliness, reducing wait times and preventing harmful delays for both patient and providers. The typical […]

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Masaki: A Community’s Approach to Ending Hunger and Malnutrition in Jigawa State

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 25, 2025

Mahdi Garba and Safiya Shuaibu Isa (Lead writers) Every Wednesday for the past four years, Abdulrahman Hannatu, a trained community health worker with the Masaki nutrition programme, wakes up at exactly 5:45 a.m., gets dressed, and prepares for the day’s nutrition class near the Danmasara community ward head’s residence. During the weekly class, Hannatu and her assistant […]

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