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AbbaCare Insurance Brings Healthcare Solutions Within Reach of Kano’s Sickle Cell Patients
02 Jun
By Nigeria Health Watch
AbbaCare Insurance Brings Healthcare Solutions Within Reach of Kano’s Sickle Cell Patients

Mahdi Garba (Lead writer) Nusaiba Idris Muhammad, 23, lives with her low-income family in Shagari Quarters, Kano. She battles with the life-threatening symptoms of Sickle...

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NHEA 2025 Announces PharmAccess SafeCare Award Categories; Unveils Nominees
02 Jun
By Nigeria Health Watch
NHEA 2025 Announces PharmAccess SafeCare Award Categories; Unveils Nominees

The Nigerian Healthcare Excellence Award (NHEA) has announced the PharmAccess Foundation SafeCare Award categories as part of the upcoming NHEA 2025, making a decade of...

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Ending Period Poverty in Nigeria: The Role Men Must Now Play
30 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
Ending Period Poverty in Nigeria: The Role Men Must Now Play

Precious Ajayi and Favour Ani (Lead Writers) For Hannah, a 13-year-old student in Junior Secondary School 1 (JSS1), the arrival of her monthly period is...

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Shango PHC: No Beds, No Light, No Hope
30 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
Shango PHC: No Beds, No Light, No Hope

Fatima Muhammad, a 40-year-old mother of eight, recalled the night she pleaded with staff to keep the Shango Primary Health Care (PHC) facility open past...

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Women’s Health is a Human Right That Must Be Fought and Won
28 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
Women’s Health is a Human Right That Must Be Fought and Won

Onyinye Oranezi and Zubaida Baba Ibrahim (Lead Writers)As you are reading this, Amina is in a remote village in Borno State, giving birth to her...

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Scaling Heat-Stable Uterotonics to Prevent Maternal Deaths in Nigeria
23 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
Scaling Heat-Stable Uterotonics to Prevent Maternal Deaths in Nigeria

Adanna Opara (Lead Writer) Every day, countless mothers around the world lose their lives to postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), a devastating reality that remains a widespread...

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Kuku Health Post Plagued by Absence of Essential Services
22 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
Kuku Health Post Plagued by Absence of Essential Services

Every week, dozens of women walk long distances to the Kuku Health Post in Kano State, only to leave without the services they desperately need....

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News Release: Global leaders reaffirm commitment to WHO with at least US$ 170 million raised at World Health Assembly 2025 pledging event
21 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
News Release: Global leaders reaffirm commitment to WHO with at least US$ 170 million raised at World Health Assembly 2025 pledging event

World leaders pledged at least an additional US$ 170 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) at a high-level pledging event Tuesday at the Seventy-eighth World Health...

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Reaching Unvaccinated Children in Bauchi: The Role of Budget Advocacy
20 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
Reaching Unvaccinated Children in Bauchi: The Role of Budget Advocacy

Mahdi Garba (Lead Writer) After contracting polio at age 6, Ibrahim Hussaini, now 41, was left physically disabled. But rather than let his condition define...

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Apply for the West Africa Solutions Journalism Fellowship
19 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
Apply for the West Africa Solutions Journalism Fellowship

Are you a health journalist ready to use the solutions journalism framework to change the narrative on global health and development in West Africa? Nigeria...

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The Joint Learning Network’s Concerted Effort to Strengthen UHC
16 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
The Joint Learning Network’s Concerted Effort to Strengthen UHC

Ibukun Oguntola and Oluoma Omeje (Lead Writers) Providing access to healthcare is widely recognised as a fundamental human right, as outlined in the Constitution of...

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WAHO Expands Lassa Fever Coalition with new Regional Health Partners to Accelerate Vaccine Access in West Africa
15 May
By Nigeria Health Watch
WAHO Expands Lassa Fever Coalition with new Regional Health Partners to Accelerate Vaccine Access in West Africa

Three leading West African health partners: Corona Management Systems, Nigeria Health Watch, and Bloom Public Health, have officially joined the Lassa Fever Coalition, an instrumental...

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