The “new” National Health Bill is stuck in the presidency where it has been sent to be signed, as health sector professionals quarrel over a significantly flawed...

In 1996, I started my one year housemanship programme in an unlikely location;  Abia State University Teaching Hospital (ABSUTH), Aba. While not necessarily renowned for...

Today is a special day – so we will make an exemption from our focus on health in Nigeria. Today, Africa adds a new independent...

Those that read our blog regularly will remember the early days when we called for a Field Epidemiology Training Programme in Nigeria to train health professionals in...

Until recently in Nigeria, on completion of your 6 years of medical training, one year housemanship and one year youth service, you could begin to...

You would have all heard about our President’s recent  trip to New York for the UN high level meeting on HIV/AIDS. Apart from a few...

We are not quite sure whether we should be celebrating a new trend we have noticed emerging in Nigeria or not. In many Nigerian newspapers there are...

Between the 14th and 16th of May, we attended the first Africa Health exhibition that took place in Johannesburg. It attracted over 290 international exhibitors from...

We have blogged a lot about outbreaks in Nigeria, and the apathy of our government in responding to them. We have stated our worries about...

This article first appeared in the new country edition of AFRICA HEALTHIn the last four years of the Yar’Adua/Jonathan presidency, Nigeria had four Ministers of...

We will be bringing you a series of articles intermittently over the next few months on Nigerians who have decided to challenge conventional wisdom, and...

Yesterday was Mothering Sunday (8th May) in some countries among Christian communities (would it not be great if a common date was agreed across all...