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The Business of Health in Africa
13 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
The Business of Health in Africa

While we have focused mostly on the challenges facing the public sector in health care delivery in Nigeria, the private sector is similarly challenged in...

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The President speaks, but not about health…
10 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
The President speaks, but not about health…

Our president hardly ever grants interviews. When The Guardian got him to sit down with them for his most detailed interview to date, they called...

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"Where is the local health centre?"
07 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
"Where is the local health centre?"

Find attached this excellent piece by my friend; Kalu Aja on his dialogue with a new friend visiting our country. A must read! – posted...

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Kidnapped!
04 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
Kidnapped!

On this blog….we made a decision at the beginning that no matter how strongly we feel about other social and political issues in Nigeria, we...

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Swine Flu – Before we embarrass ourselves
01 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
Swine Flu – Before we embarrass ourselves

Before we embarrass ourselves like the Egyptian Government that exposed the depth of their ignorance, and Africa to ridicule yet again by ordering the slaughtering...

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Prof Grange's new job
28 Apr
By Nigeria Health Watch
Prof Grange's new job

….we are quick to forget. Professor Adenike Grange Former Minister of Health, who lost her job from the Umaru Yar’Adua administration over the controversial unspent...

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Malaria…too common?
25 Apr
By Nigeria Health Watch
Malaria…too common?

I remember growing up in Nigeria, through primary and secondary school…the several bouts of malaria, the painful chloroquine shots and a few days on incapacity....

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2 Health Meetings in Nigeria
24 Apr
By Nigeria Health Watch
2 Health Meetings in Nigeria

The second Nigeria National Health Conference (NHC2009), will hold on 8-10 June 2009, at the Le Meridien Ibom Hotel and Resort, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State,...

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Some Lives are more valuable than others…
22 Apr
By Nigeria Health Watch
Some Lives are more valuable than others…

by ndubuisi edeoga Eric Arthur Blair, some of you would know him as “George Orwell” said it years ago in his famous book Animal Farm,...

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Pfizer settles…but what of their collaborators at home?
14 Apr
By Nigeria Health Watch
Pfizer settles…but what of their collaborators at home?

While we celebrate “justice” for Pfizer, as we did for Siemens and Halliburton…in their dealings with Nigeria…the real devil is among us, in the Nigerians...

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Pfizer settles Nigeria Trovan law suit
08 Apr
By Nigeria Health Watch
Pfizer settles Nigeria Trovan law suit

The pharmaceutical company, Pfizer has reached an out of court settlement in the suit over the use of Trovan in a meningitis outbreak in Kano...

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What is the "cost" of a life in Nigeria
07 Apr
By Nigeria Health Watch
What is the "cost" of a life in Nigeria

by ndubisi edeoga There they go again. I read in the papers that 4 teaching hospitals were slated for renovation….again. The last renovation was done...

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