Good news for public health planning, evaluation and research. The Federal Government has said it would on July 24, formally launch a nationwide child birth...

The Nigerian Public Health Network published this just before the new Nigerian government came into power as a discussion document. As we still wait for...

It’s good to see that Nigeria is finally moving against British American Tobacco. A report in The Independent states that the Kano State Government has...

Nigeria is estimated to have the 3rd largest number of people living with HIV in the world after India and South Africa HIV and the...

Photos from TED Global 2007 http://www.nigeriahealthwatch.com/ Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world; indeed it is the only...

Having been recommended by a friend, I ended up with 99 other young Africans that received a fellowship to attend a conference called TEDGlobal in...

It is now common knowledge that Pfizer used a drug trovafloxacin (commonly called Trovan) to treat Nigerians in a 1996 cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) outbreak in...

The death toll from the measles outbreak in Borno continues to rise with 80 deaths reported by Thisday newspaper as at yesterday. There is still...

The Nigerian Guardian reports that 60 children have died from a measles outbreak in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. 400 other children are said to be...

Why start a blog about health and health care in Nigera, who has time to read them…and really who cares? Questions we asked ourselves. Ike...