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1 in 4 health care facilities lacks basic water services – UNICEF, WHO
03 Apr
By Nigeria Health Watch
1 in 4 health care facilities lacks basic water services – UNICEF, WHO

3 APRIL 2019| GENEVA | NEW YORK –  One in four health care facilities around the world lacks basic water services, impacting over 2 billion people,...

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Drops of refreshing dew: The Centre bridging the gap for special needs children in Abuja
02 Apr
By Nigeria Health Watch
Drops of refreshing dew: The Centre bridging the gap for special needs children in Abuja

It’s a bright sunny afternoon in Nigeria’s capital city of Abuja, and in a small bungalow in a highbrow Maitama estate, about 20 children between...

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Top Ten News Items On Health, 29th March 2019
29 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items On Health, 29th March 2019

World TB Day: Experts want more funding to fight disease in Nigeria. Diseases cost Africa $2.4 trillion a year – WHO. Sustaining progress in ending...

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It’s not Typhoid – Tackling misdiagnosis of Typhoid fever in Nigeria
28 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
It’s not Typhoid – Tackling misdiagnosis of Typhoid fever in Nigeria

Editor’s Note: This week’s blog is a personal story from a Nigeria Health Watch team member, Patience Adejo. She writes about her experience being diagnosed...

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Widely used malaria treatment to prevent malaria in pregnant women at risk of failing in areas where drug resistance is rising
25 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
Widely used malaria treatment to prevent malaria in pregnant women at risk of failing in areas where drug resistance is rising

LIVERPOOL – OXFORD, 25 March 2019 A global team of researchers, led by a team at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), are calling...

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Top Ten News Items On Health, 22nd March 2019
22 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items On Health, 22nd March 2019

Over 3.6 m Nigerians in need of water, sanitation – UNICEF. The road to NAIIS: UNAIDS’ role in better understanding Nigeria’s HIV epidemic. 52 new...

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Is Nigeria ready to leave no one behind? World Water Day 2019
20 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
Is Nigeria ready to leave no one behind? World Water Day 2019

Water is life Imagine… 10-year-old Funke kicks up dust as she makes her way out of the door to the stream. You can barely see...

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Winners of the 2019 UN World Water Day Inter-School Handwashing Essay Competition
20 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
Winners of the 2019 UN World Water Day Inter-School Handwashing Essay Competition

Nigeria Health Watch, T.Y Danjuma Foundation, Water Aid and EpiAFRIC put together an inter-school handwashing essay competition in a bid to contribute to the UN’s...

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Further Together: Collaboration for UHC in Africa by 2030
19 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
Further Together: Collaboration for UHC in Africa by 2030

As we entered Rwanda’s airspace and began our final descent to the Kigali International airport, I looked out of my window, eager to get my...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 15th March 2019
15 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 15th March 2019

1.9 million Nigerians living with HIV – NACA boss. 2 Neonatal mortality, great challenge to developmental goals – Paediatrician. About 18 Nigerians die of tuberculosis...

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WHO Africa Health Forum to shape next steps in universal health care on the continent
14 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
WHO Africa Health Forum to shape next steps in universal health care on the continent

Global leaders and health experts will come together at the continent’s seminal health-focused event to identify workable solutions that will strengthen African health services, deliver...

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Can a passionate workforce make up for the shortcomings in our PHCs?
13 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
Can a passionate workforce make up for the shortcomings in our PHCs?

The effective delivery of healthcare has many dimensions. While the focus is largely on the patient who is receiving the care, the other integral part is...

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