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NCDC hosts Annual Surveillance Review Meeting in Enugu
23 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
NCDC hosts Annual Surveillance Review Meeting in Enugu

Between the 14th and 17th of March 2017, The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control hosted its 2nd Annual Surveillance Review Meeting at the prestigious Nike...

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Tuberculosis and HIV: The need for a stronger and sustained collaboration against a deadly duo
23 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
Tuberculosis and HIV: The need for a stronger and sustained collaboration against a deadly duo

Nigeria ranks fourth among the 22 high-burden Tuberculosis (TB) countries in the world. The WHO 2015 Global report gave the estimated TB incidence rate at...

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Health Meets Tech Application Challenge
18 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
Health Meets Tech Application Challenge

Are you a health worker or techie looking to improve Nigerian healthcare via technology? EpiAfric and Digital Health Nigeria invite you to join us at...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 17 March 2017
17 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 17 March 2017

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....

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The silent thief of sight: Early detection can prevent blindness from Glaucoma
15 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
The silent thief of sight: Early detection can prevent blindness from Glaucoma

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...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 10 March 2017
10 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 10 March 2017

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...

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US Ambassador visits APIN-supported Centre at JUTH
10 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
US Ambassador visits APIN-supported Centre at JUTH

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

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“I banged on the hospital door at 1 a.m. with my daughter screaming in pain” – The difficulty of healthcare access in Nigeria
08 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
“I banged on the hospital door at 1 a.m. with my daughter screaming in pain” – The difficulty of healthcare access in Nigeria

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...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 03 March 2017
03 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 03 March 2017

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....

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Zero Discrimination Day
01 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
Zero Discrimination Day

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...

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Evaluating the impact of health programmes in Nigeria to build evidence for policy
01 Mar
By Nigeria Health Watch
Evaluating the impact of health programmes in Nigeria to build evidence for policy

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...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 24th February 2017
24 Feb
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 24th February 2017

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...

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