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Top Ten News Items on Health, 10th August 2018
10 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 10th August 2018

FG okays $150m World Bank Loan for Polio Eradication. Nigeria launches Epidemic Response Scheme to combat infectious diseases. DRC begins vaccination against latest Ebola outbreak. Only 24% infants...

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From Zero to Six: Can breastfeeding our babies accelerate Nigeria’s development? #WBWNG2018
08 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
From Zero to Six: Can breastfeeding our babies accelerate Nigeria’s development? #WBWNG2018

Every first week of August Nigeria joins the rest of the world to commemorate World Breastfeeding Week. Yet, if statistics are anything to go by, one might...

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Ground-breaking health partnership to expand across Kwara State
07 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Ground-breaking health partnership to expand across Kwara State

The ground-breaking partnership between the Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), Johnson & Johnson and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine is set to expand across the whole...

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Lessons for Bida: Three approaches that may solve Niger state’s public sanitation dilemma
07 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Lessons for Bida: Three approaches that may solve Niger state’s public sanitation dilemma

The Katsina family of Bida will probably never forget June 20th 2018. Just before 8 p.m. on that day, Mr. Farouk Katsina received an urgent...

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NCDC, PHN partner with private sector towards ending epidemics in Nigeria
07 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
NCDC, PHN partner with private sector towards ending epidemics in Nigeria

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria (PHN), have launched a new initiative – the Alliance for...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 3rd August 2018
03 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 3rd August 2018

Cluster of presumptive Ebola cases in North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Nigeria launches initiative to protect patients’ rights. FG set to implement basic...

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Face to face with Nigeria’s ailing emergency health system: One daughter’s story
01 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Face to face with Nigeria’s ailing emergency health system: One daughter’s story

Editor’s Note: This week’s blog comes from a Nigeria Health Watch team member. She writes about coming head to head with the challenges facing Nigeria’s...

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Before the first impact: How your little actions can save lives on Nigerian roads
30 Jul
By Nigeria Health Watch
Before the first impact: How your little actions can save lives on Nigerian roads

On Monday, February 10, 2014, Mr. Celestine Chima kissed his two children, seven-year-old Goodluck and five-year-old Goodness goodbye and stepped out of his residence in...

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Top Ten News Items On Health, 27th July 2018
27 Jul
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items On Health, 27th July 2018

Ebola outbreak in DRC ends: WHO calls for international efforts to stop other deadly outbreaks in the country. Over 5,000 Nigerian doctors working in South...

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Gasping for Air: Doctor’s death exposes inherent risks of Nigerian public hospitals
25 Jul
By Nigeria Health Watch
Gasping for Air: Doctor’s death exposes inherent risks of Nigerian public hospitals

By Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor and Patience Adejo (Lead Writers) Editor’s Note: On the 19th of June, 2018, headlines of Nigerian newspapers carried a shocking piece...

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On World Sickle Cell Day, ASH takes action to improve global health outcomes
25 Jul
By Nigeria Health Watch
On World Sickle Cell Day, ASH takes action to improve global health outcomes

American Society of Hematology (ASH), with the Sickle Cell Disease Coalition, debuts videos that shed light on the global state of sickle cell disease to...

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How “SatComms Tablets” are reviving primary healthcare in Kano State
23 Jul
By Nigeria Health Watch
How “SatComms Tablets” are reviving primary healthcare in Kano State

A few mothers are seated with the Health Officer-in-Charge of Sumaila Yamma Primary Healthcare Centre (PHC), who has just finished post-natal counseling. Bilikis, a second-time...

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