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The Women in Unguwar Duniya Deserve Access to Quality Maternal Care
01 Jul
By Nigeria Health Watch
The Women in Unguwar Duniya Deserve Access to Quality Maternal Care

Pregnant women in some rural communities in Nigeria continue to suffer from the lack of adequate and quality maternal care due to lack of access...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 1st July 2022
01 Jul
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 1st July 2022

AfDB to cut $14bn annual import of medicine into Africa. Health workers’ shortage in Nigeria, others to hit 6.1m by 2030 – WHO study. No...

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Leveraging the Joint External Evaluation to Improve Health Security at Sub-National Level
29 Jun
By Nigeria Health Watch
Leveraging the Joint External Evaluation to Improve Health Security at Sub-National Level

By Chibuike Alagboso and Onyinye Oranezi When the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Nigeria, Dr Johnson Simon Mafuka who heads the Infectious Diseases...

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From the Darkest of Days to a New Dawn: 35 Years of the Nigerian Response to HIV and AIDS
27 Jun
By Nigeria Health Watch
From the Darkest of Days to a New Dawn: 35 Years of the Nigerian Response to HIV and AIDS

From the Darkest of Days to a New dawn: 35 years of the Nigerian Response to HIV and AIDS is the title of a seminal...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 24th June 2022
24 Jun
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 24th June 2022

N2.7tr required to get PHC right – Experts discuss current challenges and opportunities. UTA tasks Nigeria on human development index, health-related SDGs. Water from boreholes,...

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Warawa Primary Health Center: This is What Happens When Government Steps Up
23 Jun
By Nigeria Health Watch
Warawa Primary Health Center: This is What Happens When Government Steps Up

Like every Primary Health Center (PHC), Warawa PHC in Warawa Local Government Area of Kano State exists to cater for the health needs of the...

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Monkeypox in Nigeria: Is There a Case for Vaccines?
22 Jun
By Nigeria Health Watch
Monkeypox in Nigeria: Is There a Case for Vaccines?

The current epidemiology and spread of monkeypoxThe spread of monkeypox to apparently non-endemic countries has highlighted again the inequity in the global response to the...

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Reducing Neonatal Mortality in Kenya by Skilling Neonatal Specialist Care
20 Jun
By Nigeria Health Watch
Reducing Neonatal Mortality in Kenya by Skilling Neonatal Specialist Care

By Joyce Chimbi (Lead Writer) In 2014, when Edith Mumbi’s twins were born, they had a low birth weight and were admitted into the neonatal...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 17th June 2022
17 Jun
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 17th June 2022

Need for Multi-faceted Approach in Achieving Zero Maternal Mortality. Over 11 million Nigerians living with diabetes. Infectious diseases fast ravaging communities in Nigeria – Don...

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Is Nigeria’s Current Demographic Trend a Dividend or a Disaster?
16 Jun
By Nigeria Health Watch
Is Nigeria’s Current Demographic Trend a Dividend or a Disaster?

My great-grand father had five wives and 23 children, 18 of whom were male. It was said that he was deliberate about having a large...

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Making Good on a Promise: How Nasarawa State Vaccinated Seventy Percent of its Eligible Population
13 Jun
By Nigeria Health Watch
Making Good on a Promise: How Nasarawa State Vaccinated Seventy Percent of its Eligible Population

By Gabriel Oke (Lead Writer) Nigeria’s COVID-19 vaccination campaign is not a competition and there are no prizes for the state that successfully vaccinates all...

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Somajigi PHC: Seeking a Resolution to its Multiple Challenges
10 Jun
By Nigeria Health Watch
Somajigi PHC: Seeking a Resolution to its Multiple Challenges

Somajigi is a rural community in Gbako Local Government Area (LGA) of Niger State. A Primary Health Centre (PHC) was established to meet the health...

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