A maternal death is defined as the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy. Maternal mortality is one...

That the Ministry of Health in Nigeria has not had a website of any substance over the past years is a tragedy and we appeal...

BBC – Nigeria’s government says it has begun legal action against three leading international cigarette companies. Surprisingly I have not found this picked up by...

Find below the budget for health as presented to the Joint Session of the National Assembly in Abuja, Thursday, on November 8, 2007 by President...

With these words the new Nigerian Minister of Health, Professor Adenike Grange started of her the talk titled “Implementing Health Sector Reform for better Performance”...

The Lancet is one of the preeminent medical journals in the world. Every year it invites someone whose work has had, or has to potential...

The quality of some of the health reporting in the Nigerian press is still extremely poor. It is obvious that most of those reporting health...

In 2001, the Nigerian Government government declared an ambitious national treatment antiretroviral target (the drug treatment for HIV/AIDS) to reach 100,000 people by 2003, scaling...

The Medical Association of Nigerian Specialists and General Practitioners (MANSAG) is holding its annual conference and general meeting this weekend. For details click here In...

…Our inability to raise coverage of routine immunisation in Nigeria remains one of the biggest scandals of our age. Huge outbreaks are still happening in...

Recently we blogged about the appointment of Professor Adenike Grange as Minister of Health and the enthusiastic response in the Nigerian health sector. She comes...

Find a few health stories from the papers in September…nothing ground breaking but the first one could be very significant…read on! ThisDay: Yar’Adua says that...