Yasir Jamal Bakare (Lead writer) Nigeria accounts for roughly one in every four malaria cases worldwide, and nearly one in three malaria deaths. This places...

At the start of every year, Nigeria Health Watch takes stock of the trends likely to influence Nigeria’s health landscape. This year is different. Instead...

For years, women in Kura Local Government Area, Kano State, believed that eating protein during menstruation was dangerous. This nutrition myth, passed from mothers to...

Dr. Adachi Ekeh and Sheriff Gbadamosi (Lead writers) For too long, noma has remained a disease of silence, devastating children in extremely poor and socially...

For over two years, residents of Dogon Kurmi Primary Health Care (PHC) have accessed healthcare in near-total darkness. A revitalised health centre meant to save...

Tzar Oluigbo (Lead writer) Across Nigeria, December has its own rhythm. Flights are packed, roads are busier, and plans for family reunions, weddings, and “just...

Yero S. Bah (Lead writer) For decades, health facilities across The Gambia have relied on paper registers to record antenatal, delivery, postnatal, immunisation, and child...

Dr Emeka Kanebi (Lead writer) The time to act is now. Nigeria can no longer afford to let healthcare aspirations remain mere rhetoric. Transformative results...

The Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Government of the United States of America today signed a landmark technical Memorandum of Understanding...

Nigeria Health Watch Dear Distinguished Senators and Honourable Members, Nigeria faces a “double burden of disease” where diseases such as HIV, malaria, and Lassa fever...

For residents of Krosha, in Kaduna State, keeping their only health clinic open has become a daily struggle shadowed by decay, neglect, and fear. What...

Oladimeji Solomon Yemi (Lead writer)For decades, global health governance was shaped by aid flows, multilateral institutions, and shared norms of solidarity. Countries received funding, technical...