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Top Ten News Items on Health, 22nd December 2017
22 Dec
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 22nd December 2017

Monkeypox: Nigeria records one death, confirms 61 cases. Foreign-trained doctors who failed MDCN test want registrar kicked out. I lost a lot spending 12 years for six...

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Healthcare Leadership Academy holds Graduation Ceremony, launches Alumni Association
18 Dec
By Nigeria Health Watch
Healthcare Leadership Academy holds Graduation Ceremony, launches Alumni Association

The Healthcare Leadership Academy (HLA), held the graduation ceremony for the 2017 cohort of the Healthcare Executives Leadership Program (HELP) and its Patient-Centred Care (PCC)...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 15th December 2017
15 Dec
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 15th December 2017

Adewole: Nigeria is Committed to Universal Health Coverage. Senate moves to ensure mandatory health insurance, subsidy for poor. Over 600 doctors migrated from Nigeria in 2 years...

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Universal Health Coverage and the role of “marketers” for health in Nigeria
12 Dec
By Nigeria Health Watch
Universal Health Coverage and the role of “marketers” for health in Nigeria

On December 12, the world celebrates Universal Health Coverage Day to commemorate the 5th anniversary of the unanimous United Nations resolution calling for countries to...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 08 December 2017
08 Dec
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 08 December 2017

Time to improve Nigeria’s Maternal, Child Health Service Delivery. FG Inaugurates N28bn Special Health Intervention Projects. National Hospital Inaugurates Cancer Treatment Center. GAVI approves support for new typhoid...

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Chatham House Paper: Continued medical detentions are ‘degrading and abusive’
08 Dec
By Nigeria Health Watch
Chatham House Paper: Continued medical detentions are ‘degrading and abusive’

A new Chatham House paper suggests medical detentions – where hospitals forcibly detain patients unable to pay their medical bills – are common practice across...

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Time for Nigeria to own its HIV response
06 Dec
By Nigeria Health Watch
Time for Nigeria to own its HIV response

In a small cramped room in a village in Nigeria, sits a little girl called ‘Mary’ (not her real name). Her father is dead, her...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 01 December 2017
01 Dec
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 01 December 2017

Sustaining free HIV treatment in Nigeria. New dawn as senate set to implement National Health Act. Minister inaugurates 26 national advocates on health, family planning. NHIS to expand...

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Misery in the midst of plenty: Can knowledge undo Nigeria’s malnutrition tragedy?
29 Nov
By Nigeria Health Watch
Misery in the midst of plenty: Can knowledge undo Nigeria’s malnutrition tragedy?

In September, as part of a campaign to highlight the issues around malnutrition amongst children under 5 in Nigeria, Nigeria Health Watch published a blog...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 24th November 2017
24 Nov
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 24th November 2017

Osinbajo Inaugurates National Council On Nutrition. NCDC launches five-year plan on disease control. Only one-third of Nigerians in need of HIV treatment are getting it – NACA. Fistula...

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Nigeria commences 2017 World AIDS Day commemoration
22 Nov
By Nigeria Health Watch
Nigeria commences 2017 World AIDS Day commemoration

Events to commemorate the 2017 World AIDS Day have commenced with a call on all stakeholders to work towards realising the right to health for...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 17th November 2017
17 Nov
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 17th November 2017

Indiscriminate use of antibiotics now global health threat – Experts. Nigeria infant mortality rate falls — UNICEF, Statistics Bureau. NMA raises alarm as 900 doctors resign...

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