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To the last mile – Can Nigerian states improve health access in rural areas through innovative finance mechanisms?
06 Jun
By Nigeria Health Watch
To the last mile – Can Nigerian states improve health access in rural areas through innovative finance mechanisms?

Editor’s Note: This week’s Thought Leadership piece comes from Nigeria Health Watch Director of Finance and Administration, Christopher Nnaji. In the midst of discussions around...

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Herd Immunity: Jigawa’s community-driven approach boosts immunisation coverage
03 Jun
By Nigeria Health Watch
Herd Immunity: Jigawa’s community-driven approach boosts immunisation coverage

Jigawa State has been largely characterised by its poor development indices. The latest States Domestic Product report from the Nigeran National Bureau of Statistics identifies it...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 31st May 2019
31 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 31st May 2019

Group urges Buhari to assent to pending health bills. Health community celebrates Tejuoso, Usman for championing policies in NASS. Unsafe drinking water, open defecation fuelling...

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Dear President Buhari; Without Health, We have Nothing
29 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
Dear President Buhari; Without Health, We have Nothing

Dear President Buhari, congratulations on your election to a second term as president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. You are the second president to...

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Food for Thought – The Dako Community School Feeding Programme nourishing young minds
27 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
Food for Thought – The Dako Community School Feeding Programme nourishing young minds

The drive seemed endless. The Nigeria Health Watch and TY Danjuma Foundation (TYDF) teams had driven for almost 40 minutes from Gwagwalada town, one of...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 24th May 2019
24 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 24th May 2019

Only 11 of Nigeria’s 774 LGAs are free from open defecation – UNICEF. WHO begins rehabilitation of healthcare facilities in North-east. 14 States Yet to...

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Training for Quality Delivery: Brown Button’s drive to improve TBAs skills in Lagos
24 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
Training for Quality Delivery: Brown Button’s drive to improve TBAs skills in Lagos

Alhaji Sulaimon Junaid wakes up at 5:30 a.m. every day to spend time with pregnant women waiting to deliver their babies in his birthing home...

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The human cost of the lingering NHIS debacle
20 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
The human cost of the lingering NHIS debacle

Jocelyne Agbo still thinks about the death of little Aliyu. The questions keep recurring – “Did he die because his father didn’t do everything he...

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Top Ten News Items On Health, 17th May 2019
17 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items On Health, 17th May 2019

World Bank appoints Nigeria’s ex-minister, Muhammad Pate, as global director for health. DFID spends N4bn to support 52,393 pregnant women in Zamfara. Boko Haram: Nigeria...

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How perceived side effects of contraceptives hampers family planning in Nigeria
15 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
How perceived side effects of contraceptives hampers family planning in Nigeria

Editor’s Note: This week’s blog comes from Nigeria Health Watch team member Dara Ajala-Damisa. She writes about choosing a family planning method as a young...

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Isolate, trace and respond: How a new emergency operations centre has improved outbreak response in Kebbi
13 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
Isolate, trace and respond: How a new emergency operations centre has improved outbreak response in Kebbi

Dr. Assad Hassan had just graduated from the prestigious Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (NFELTP) when he received the urgent call to take...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 10th May 2019
10 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 10th May 2019

‘Midwives championing women’s rights to quality health care’. ‘Nigeria still at moderate risk of Ebola outbreak’. #PHC4UHC: Etsu Nupe laments medical tourism among Nigerians. Senate...

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