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Testing is free, drugs are free, go for voluntary counselling and testing!
09 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Testing is free, drugs are free, go for voluntary counselling and testing!

Flipping through the dailies in Nigeria, it is good to note how HIV/AIDS prevention messages have evolved and developed ….from the days of “AIDS KILLS!”....

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Still on Covenant Univerity's compulsory HIV testing
07 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Still on Covenant Univerity's compulsory HIV testing

The insistence of Covenant University, believed to be Nigeria’s best private University to justify their policy of pre-graduation compulsory HIV and pregnancy screening as a...

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Challenges for the new team, radiation in Niger Delta & Covenant University
01 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Challenges for the new team, radiation in Niger Delta & Covenant University

The appointment of Professor Grange as Minister of Health continues to draw plaudits as many commentators compare her appointment to that of another paediatrician Professor...

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Welcoming Adenike Grange and Gabriel Aduku
27 Jul
By Nigeria Health Watch
Welcoming Adenike Grange and Gabriel Aduku

Finally after nearly two months of waiting, Nigeria has a new Minister of Health, Professor Adenike Grange. Dr. Grange has served as the President of...

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Notes from Nigeria: Akunyili @ 53, Luxury suites subsidising care for the poor in Garki Hospital and BUPA partners with Nigerian Hospital
19 Jul
By Nigeria Health Watch
Notes from Nigeria: Akunyili @ 53, Luxury suites subsidising care for the poor in Garki Hospital and BUPA partners with Nigerian Hospital

From Chikwe in Nigeria: Being in Nigeria at the moment, I picked up the papers to catch up on what is going on (online versions...

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Good news…Birth Registration Strategy! Health Minister – Not yet!
11 Jul
By Nigeria Health Watch
Good news…Birth Registration Strategy! Health Minister – Not yet!

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...

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Feedback on Restoring Health
07 Jul
By Nigeria Health Watch
Feedback on Restoring Health

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...

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Big Tobacco on trial , updates on Pfizer and Friends Africa
05 Jul
By Nigeria Health Watch
Big Tobacco on trial , updates on Pfizer and Friends Africa

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...

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HIV/AIDS stigma and other issues
02 Jul
By Nigeria Health Watch
HIV/AIDS stigma and other issues

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...

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TED Global Photos
30 Jun
By Nigeria Health Watch
TED Global Photos

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...

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Proudly Nigerian at TEDGlobal
28 Jun
By Nigeria Health Watch
Proudly Nigerian at TEDGlobal

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...

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Pfizer and the 1996 meningitis outbreak in Nigeria: Who is lying?, and 9 other questions
23 Jun
By Nigeria Health Watch
Pfizer and the 1996 meningitis outbreak in Nigeria: Who is lying?, and 9 other questions

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...

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