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A Different Kind of Charity; Empowering Orphanages to Fight Malnutrition in the FCT
16 Apr
By Nigeria Health Watch
A Different Kind of Charity; Empowering Orphanages to Fight Malnutrition in the FCT

Orphanages are not uncommon in Nigeria and across different parts of the globe. The United Nations Convention on the rights of the child makes it...

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Top Ten News Items On Health, 13th April 2019
13 Apr
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items On Health, 13th April 2019

Addressing care challenges requires multi-sectoral approach. Embracing PPP key to developing Nigerian healthcare system – Wada. Nigeria to establish emergency centre to tackle maternal, infant...

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Mothers Lives Matter – A Call to Action to Catalyse Accountability for Maternal Deaths in Nigeria
13 Apr
By Nigeria Health Watch
Mothers Lives Matter – A Call to Action to Catalyse Accountability for Maternal Deaths in Nigeria

“In Rwanda, a combination of community-based health insurance, community health workers, and good external partnerships led to the steepest reductions in maternal mortality ever recorded.” — President...

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Babymigo: How a Genius Company in Lagos is empowering mums using tech
09 Apr
By Nigeria Health Watch
Babymigo: How a Genius Company in Lagos is empowering mums using tech

Ever wondered how a Nigerian startup came to be listed as one of Time Magazine’s 50 Genius Companies of 2018, standing alongside global giants like...

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Statement by WHO Director-General on World Health Day 2019
07 Apr
By Nigeria Health Watch
Statement by WHO Director-General on World Health Day 2019

WHO was born on 7 April 1948 with a clear and ambitious vision: a world in which all people enjoy the highest attainable standard of...

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Top Ten News Items On Health, 5th April 2019
05 Apr
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items On Health, 5th April 2019

Nigeria Loses Over N400bn On Annual Basis To Medical Tourism — Buhari. ACPN tasks NAFDAC on stricter regulation, fake drugs, open markets as agency turns...

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Fighting Fake Drugs Is Fighting For Universal Health Coverage: World Health Day 2019 – Op-Ed
05 Apr
By Nigeria Health Watch
Fighting Fake Drugs Is Fighting For Universal Health Coverage: World Health Day 2019 – Op-Ed

Editor’s Note: This week’s Op-Ed comes from Howard Catton, CEO of The International Council of Nurses (ICN). Ahead of World Health Day 2019, which is...

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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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