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...

Like many on this forum will know, Nigeria has come to be closely associated with the near collapse of the Global Polio Eradication programme. Several...

Since restoration of democracy in Nigeria in 1999, we in the medical profession have been extremely lucky to have some of our own in positions...

Without wanting to sound like an inveterate praise singer, Professor Grange gets it right again, calling for a probe of her ministry’s finances, especially donor...

The Kanu Heart Foundation is often in the the news …and rightly so! When Kanu set up his foundation in 2002 and officially commenced operations...

A lot of interesting bilateral health related initiatives seem to be happening behind the scenes in Nigeria. One is reassured by the beginnings of central...