UNICEF Scales up Intervention in Malnutrition by 400% in North-east. FG disburses $500m maternal, child fund. Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control to get legal backing....

Editor’s Note: Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in the world, with the highest number affected in Sub-Saharan Africa. This week (March 12...

FG explains plans to upgrade seven cancer centres across Nigeria. Eight years after raising billions, Turai Yar’Adua’s Cancer Centre remains abandoned, overtaken by weeds. Nigeria...

The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador W. Stuart Symington this week visited the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), to tour the JUTH Laboratory &...

Editor’s Note: This week’s Thought Leadership Piece recounts the harrowing experience of Nneoma Wokemba, a mother who found herself fighting to get health care for...

Hope dims for cancer patients as radiotherapy machines break down nationwide. How Twitter posts may have cost Nigeria’s former minister top position in Global Fund....

Abuja 1st March 2017– The world has struggled against the HIV and AIDS epidemic for the past three decades with substantial progress made in the...

Health policy is almost always driven by conventional wisdom. This week’s Thought Leadership piece comes from Emily Elizabeth Crawford, the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation...

Nigeria’s Mohammed Pate, two other candidates shortlisted for Global Fund’s ED post. Health Minister Inaugurates Statutory Committees for National Health Act. Minister appeals to the...

The Gates Institute at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Federal Ministry of Health announce the launch of the Nigeria Hub...

Editor’s note: Chikwe Ihekweazu was Curator of Nigeria Health Watch until he was appointed as Chief Executive of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, a...

FG approves new National Health Policy. FG Signs Seventy Million Euro EU Support For Health . Nigeria to benefit from MacArthur foundation’s global reach projects....