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Handle Your Heart with Care: Curbing the Rise of Non-Communicable Diseases in Nigeria.
06 Oct
By Nigeria Health Watch
Handle Your Heart with Care: Curbing the Rise of Non-Communicable Diseases in Nigeria.

We got to Zenith Medical & Kidney Centre at 6:50am, and already, the place was beginning to fill up. Thankfully, we were early enough for...

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Assess. Learn. Improve: Enugu State’s Journey to Closing Health Security Gaps
03 Oct
By Nigeria Health Watch
Assess. Learn. Improve: Enugu State’s Journey to Closing Health Security Gaps

By Chibuike Alagboso and Kenneth Ibe (Lead Writers) The re-emergence of infectious diseases is inevitable, as humans continue to interact with the environment in different...

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Primary Healthcare Financing Forum to discuss the role of states in PHC Financing in Nigeria
03 Oct
By Nigeria Health Watch
Primary Healthcare Financing Forum to discuss the role of states in PHC Financing in Nigeria

Health Commissioners across the country under the auspices of the Nigeria Health Commissioners’ Forum will be holding a 2-day program tagged Primary Healthcare Financing Forum...

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To Build a Nation: Reflecting on the Mental Health Impact of the ASUU Strike as Nigeria Turns 62
01 Oct
Rofia Community: Where Healthcare Access is an Ordeal.
01 Oct
By Nigeria Health Watch
Rofia Community: Where Healthcare Access is an Ordeal.

The Primary health Centre (PHC) in Rofia, a rural community in Agwara Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State, was built several years ago to...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 30th September 2022
30 Sep
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 30th September 2022

Reps ask FG to watchout for fresh Ebola outbreak. Smiles for Mothers continues its efforts in Kano, Lagos, and Niger States to ensure that women do...

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Nutrition in Nigeria - What Gaps Persist? Highlights from an Interview with Shawn Baker, Chief Nutritionist for USAID
28 Sep
By Nigeria Health Watch
Nutrition in Nigeria - What Gaps Persist? Highlights from an Interview with Shawn Baker, Chief Nutritionist for USAID

Shawn Baker, Chief Nutritionist for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was in Nigeria in September, and in an interview with Nigeria Health Watch,...

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Lessons from Dakar: How Peer Learning and Capacity Strengthening of CSOs Impacts Africa’s Development
26 Sep
By Nigeria Health Watch
Lessons from Dakar: How Peer Learning and Capacity Strengthening of CSOs Impacts Africa’s Development

At the Café De Rome Hotel, 350 meters from the Presidential Palace in Dakar, Senegal, academics, and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) from across Africa congregated...

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Spotlighting the Many Challenges at Dappo Primary Health Centre
24 Sep
By Nigeria Health Watch
Spotlighting the Many Challenges at Dappo Primary Health Centre

The Primary Health Care (PHC) system is designed to meet more than 70 percent of an individual’s healthcare needs. What then happens to the individual...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 23rd September 2022
23 Sep
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 23rd September 2022

Uganda confirms seven cases of Ebola, one death. Alzheimer’s Disease: Five Things To Know. ‘Hospitals to provide immediate treatment’ – Lagos assembly passes accident victim...

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For Want of a Better Life: Still on Nigeria’s Medical Brain Drain
21 Sep
By Nigeria Health Watch
For Want of a Better Life: Still on Nigeria’s Medical Brain Drain

By Dr Tanimola Owolabi (Lead Writer) Editor’s Note: Dr Tanimola Owolabi is a senior registrar, Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Ilorin Teaching...

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The Lagos State Ilera Eko Scheme: A Baseline Assessment to Strengthen Service Delivery in Health Facilities
19 Sep
By Nigeria Health Watch
The Lagos State Ilera Eko Scheme: A Baseline Assessment to Strengthen Service Delivery in Health Facilities

By Beti Baiye and Thelma Thomas Abeku (Lead Writers) From establishing the National Health Scheme Act to improving upon it with the National Health Insurance...

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