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Water No Get Enemy: Improving Access to Water for the Uko Nteghe Community in Akwa Ibom State.
29 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Water No Get Enemy: Improving Access to Water for the Uko Nteghe Community in Akwa Ibom State.

The gentle early morning rain falls as we drive through the still dark streets of Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital, to Uko Nteghe in...

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Madangen Clinic: A Perfect Picture of Health Inequity
27 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Madangen Clinic: A Perfect Picture of Health Inequity

Madangen is a mainly agrarian community under Tungan Wawa ward in Kontagora Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State. The community members are unable to...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 26th August 2022
26 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 26th August 2022

Nigeria introduces rotavirus vaccine to avert 110,000 deaths in children. NMA cautions against attack on medical personnel. Commit more funds to surgical care, expert urges...

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Implementing Nigeria’s Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax to Harness Domestic Resources for Health
24 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Implementing Nigeria’s Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax to Harness Domestic Resources for Health

In 2021, the Federal Government of Nigeria introduced a Sugar-Sweetened Beverage (SSB) tax. It is embedded in the Finance Act of 2021, which levies a...

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Code Red: Katakpa Community Health Facility Needs a Reset
20 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Code Red: Katakpa Community Health Facility Needs a Reset

Katakpa is a rural farming community in Lapai Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State. Due to years of neglect, the only health facility in...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 19th August 2022
19 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 19th August 2022

How Nigeria’s Health Insurance Authority can help strengthen health security. Nigeria will save N2tr from malaria elimination, says Buhari. 64% of children in Nigeria not...

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Transitioning Polio Emergency Operations Centres to Strengthen Nigeria’s Health Security.
17 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Transitioning Polio Emergency Operations Centres to Strengthen Nigeria’s Health Security.

By Ibukun Oguntola and Onyinye Oranezi (Lead Writers) Emergency Operations Centres, first used in Nigeria during the national polio response, were valuable assets in Nigeria’s...

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Kano State’s Health Security Roadmap: Evaluating Strengths and Gaps and Improving Health Systems
15 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Kano State’s Health Security Roadmap: Evaluating Strengths and Gaps and Improving Health Systems

By Bashar Abubakar and Hadiza Mohammed (Lead Writers) When Nigeria conducted a Joint External Evaluation (JEE) in 2017, there was no way of knowing that...

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Human Resource, a Critical Need for Dawakiji Health Clinic
13 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Human Resource, a Critical Need for Dawakiji Health Clinic

Dawakiji Basic Health Clinic in Dawakiji community of Dawakin Kudu Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State provides healthcare services to the residents of Dawakiji...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 12th August 2022
12 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 12th August 2022

35 people infected as new virus hits China. PWDs demand domestication of Disability Act in Ebonyi. Advocating for Domestic Resource Mobilisation to Strengthen Nigeria’s Health....

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Innovations and Current Trends in Digitising Distribution of Health Products in Nigeria
10 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Innovations and Current Trends in Digitising Distribution of Health Products in Nigeria

Digital technology has become an integral part of daily life, and healthcare delivery can be improved by taking full advantage of the interconnectedness that technology...

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A Wearable Reminder: Prompting Caregivers to Stick to Vaccination Schedules in Kano State
09 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
A Wearable Reminder: Prompting Caregivers to Stick to Vaccination Schedules in Kano State

By Chibuike Alagboso and Ikemefuna Igwe (Lead writers) Gandirwawa Primary Health Centre (PHC) is in Minjibir Local Government Area (LGA) which is 42 kilometres from...

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