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Restoring Health to the Agenda
31 Oct
By Nigeria Health Watch
Restoring Health to the Agenda

Have you registered for the Conference: Nigeria: Partnership for Health Do not sit on the fence…ENGAGE! Today is the deadline for bursaries. For details go...

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Smile Train arrives Nigeria!
30 Oct
By Nigeria Health Watch
Smile Train arrives Nigeria!

In November 2007, on a cold November night we sat in an auditorium at UCL in London listening to the annual lecture of The Lancet....

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Medical Mission with a difference: The changing face of surgical operations
27 Oct
By Nigeria Health Watch
Medical Mission with a difference: The changing face of surgical operations

We will occasionaly bring you a piece by a guest write Kingsley Obom-Egbulem. KC has been reporting on health issues for a few years and...

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Road Traffic Accidents and the Federal Road Safety Commision
23 Oct
By Nigeria Health Watch
Road Traffic Accidents and the Federal Road Safety Commision

by Ndubuisi Edeoga The Federal Road Safety Commision has been in the news a lot lately. Guardian: January 1, 2009 deadline given to all motorcyclists...

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Health news around the country
21 Oct
By Nigeria Health Watch
Health news around the country

Guardian: A LACK of funds (sic) is delaying the proposed N247 million new model sero-prevalence or (not sure what “or” means) sentinel surveillance survey on...

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NHW's response to the Ministerial Press Briefing of our Minister of Health
15 Oct
By Nigeria Health Watch
NHW's response to the Ministerial Press Briefing of our Minister of Health

Dr Hassan Lawal oon, Minister for LabourSupervising Minister, Ministry for HealthFederal Republic of NigeriaDear Sir,Thank you!One of the features of the YarAdua administration is that...

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Our Government and the Health sector
11 Oct
By Nigeria Health Watch
Our Government and the Health sector

You could not make this up…but this is how our health sector is being run… 2 years after a failing agency the National Programme for...

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Still missing Omololu, 2 years on…..
05 Oct
By Nigeria Health Watch
Still missing Omololu, 2 years on…..

I ran into Olayide Akanni last week while catching the Number 8 bus in Geneva. Most of you reading this blog will know that Layide...

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While Nigeria stutters…Ghana makes great strides
03 Oct
By Nigeria Health Watch
While Nigeria stutters…Ghana makes great strides

From AfricaLoft:Ghana is reportedly one of the few countries in sub-Saharan Africa which have made tremendous progress in reducing infant and maternal deaths. The country...

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India…an ongoing challenge
03 Oct
By Nigeria Health Watch
India…an ongoing challenge

I recently read an interesting blog by editors of the BMJ who had recently visited India. They wrote about their vist… Nair Hospital where free...

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MANSAG Conference holds in Birmingham – October 17 to 19
30 Sep
By Nigeria Health Watch
MANSAG Conference holds in Birmingham – October 17 to 19

The Medical Association of Nigerian Specialists and General Practitioners in the British Isles MANSAG, holds its 19th Authum Conference. Despite the organisational challenges of holding...

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Health stories in the Nigerian Press
25 Sep
By Nigeria Health Watch
Health stories in the Nigerian Press

Vanguard: Principal Recipient for the Global Fund Round Five TB Grant, the Christian Health Association of Nigeria (CHAN), commissions of the National TB Reference TB...

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