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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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A Digital Data System is Making Vaccines Accessible to Children Across Kwara’s Communities

By | January 13, 2025

Mahdi Garba (Lead writer) A typical day in Babatunde Grace’s life begins with checking her smart tablet to see how many caregivers are expected to bring their children for routine immunisation but have failed to do so. If any are found, she will give them a phone call to understand the reason for their absence […]

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Planting the Future: How a Nigerian University is Tackling Food Insecurity with Agricultural Innovation

By | January 6, 2025

Mohammed Dahiru Lawal (Guest Writer) Musa Gambo stood at the edge of his once-barren millet farm, watching rows of green crops sway gently in the dry Kano breeze. For years, his farmland yielded low harvests that could not sustain his family. “I was losing hope,” Gambo recalled, until his encounter with Bayero University Centre for […]

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Feeding Hope: An MSF-Backed Nutrition Project is Giving Malnourished Children a Fighting Chance in Katsina

By | December 23, 2024

Mahdi Garba (Lead writer) Hauwa’u’s gleeful face could be seen by anyone who entered the children’s ward at the Maternal and Child Health Centre in Kofar Sauri, Katsina. She had a skinny baby strapped to her back. The baby who had been vomiting and excreting more than usual — was brought to the hospital from Dutsin-Ma Local […]

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A Healthcare System Ensures Health Coverage for Nigeria’s Almajiri Children

By | December 16, 2024

Chinonso Kenneth (Lead writer) In 2014, Mohammed Keana accompanied a group of colleagues from the London School of Health & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) who were engaged in a research programme in Gombe State to try out the street food in the state’s capital. What followed was profound and gave him a lifelong purpose. While waiting […]

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Meet the Women Reshaping Nigeria’s Digital Health Sector: How an Internship Programme Became Gender-Transformative

By | November 8, 2024

By Chisom Ohazurume, Otse Ogorry, Caitlin Showalter, Jesse Hastings, Laura Osterndorf Aequalis and Laurence ClaussenDespite ongoing efforts to empower more African women to join the technology sector, and some promising recent signs of a surge of female-led businesses, the digital health sector in Nigeria, like the digital health sector globally, is still largely dominated by […]

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