Each year, the umbrella group for Nigerian Doctors in the UK, MANSAG, holds an annual conference. The 2012 conference held recently in Leeds and there...

On the 16th October 2012, most people involved in maternal and child health in Nigeria gathered at the Banquet Hall of the presidential villa in...

Something interesting is happening to the public hospitals in Imo;  the State Government appears to have concessioned  them out to a private firm. While one newspaper...

We could not attend the International Conference on AIDS in Washington DC this year, so we asked Fiona Makia to share her experience at the...

Our Senator President, David Mark, the Nigerian Senate President recently called for a check on the use of the social media in the Nigeria, saying...

Today – July 22 the 19th International Conference on AIDS opens in Washington DC.  NHW will miss this year’s conference, BUT we thought that a good...

Every time news comes of another tragic incident in our country Nigeria, we cry, shrug our shoulders and move on. The routine condolence messages are sent, a firm...

Very rarely have vaccines given us the opportunity to create a small miracle. Unlike the miracle of surgery and antibiotics that brings the ill back...

Doctors employed by the Lagos State Government have been on strike. Subsequently 788 of them were sacked by the Lagos State Government, then recalled, now...

7 years ago, my emotion laden brother Ike Anya wrote this piece after the Sosoliso crash. Today I read it again and share it with...

Are you following Nigeria Health Watch on Twitter? If not …you should. When we started this blog in 2007, Twitter did not exist and we sometimes tried...

Guest post by Chima Onoka  Maxwell lost his wife Ufuoma last December. She was pregnant and started bleeding before her time of delivery. The emergency...