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State of Emergency: The Doctors’ Strike and the Brain Drain of the Health Care Workforce
28 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
State of Emergency: The Doctors’ Strike and the Brain Drain of the Health Care Workforce

In 2019, when my father was in the Intensive Care Unit of one of Nigeria’s biggest tertiary hospitals in the Federal Capital Territory, one of...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 27th August 2021
27 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 27th August 2021

NPHCDA sets Wednesday to begin the second dose of AstraZeneca vaccine. Resident doctors hold NEC meeting, resolve to continue strike. FG orders stoppage of striking...

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Improving Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Nigeria: The Only Language Cholera Understands
25 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Improving Water, Sanitation and Hygiene in Nigeria: The Only Language Cholera Understands

Nigeria is prone to seasonal disease outbreaks and in the last few years, a series of outbreaks including monkeypox, measles, Lassa fever, yellow fever, cerebrospinal...

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Lessons from Oleju: Improving Equality & Efficiency in Achieving Health for All
23 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Lessons from Oleju: Improving Equality & Efficiency in Achieving Health for All

Gender inequality constitutes a major barrier to realising equitable access to health-care services. Promoting gender equality is a major component in promoting the right to...

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Access Bank spotlights issues around blood donation with Employee Volunteering Scheme
23 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Access Bank spotlights issues around blood donation with Employee Volunteering Scheme

In a bid to address issues surrounding the low rates of blood donation in the country, the Corporate Communications Group of Access Bank PLC, has...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 20th August 2021
20 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 20th August 2021

WHO alerts to fake COVID-19 vaccines as FG receives more doses, begins vaccination. COVID-19: FG seeks private sector’s support for vaccine production. Polio resurfaces in...

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My Body, My Choice: Promoting Bodily Autonomy and Gender Equality in Nigeria
18 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
My Body, My Choice: Promoting Bodily Autonomy and Gender Equality in Nigeria

Zainab was only 11 years old when she became the fourth wife of a 42-year-old cobbler in her community. She is from Marki, a village...

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Healthy Mother, Healthy Child: Encouraging ANC, PMTCT uptake in Akwa Ibom State
16 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Healthy Mother, Healthy Child: Encouraging ANC, PMTCT uptake in Akwa Ibom State

By Kelechukwu Iruoma (Lead Writer) Eme Okon was two months pregnant with her third child when she started attending antenatal care (ANC) at the Eyokponung...

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Getting COVID-19 Shots in Arms:  A Vaccine Rollout in Nigeria Like Nothing Before
14 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Getting COVID-19 Shots in Arms: A Vaccine Rollout in Nigeria Like Nothing Before

By Gabriel Oke and Kenni Ndili (Lead Writers) In December 2020, the first COVID-19 vaccine was issued emergency use authorisation (EUA) by the US Food...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 13th August 2021
13 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 13th August 2021

816 killed as Cholera spreads across 23 States. NPHCDA, others inspect 177,600 J&J COVID-19 vaccines. WHO confirms West Africa’s first-ever case of Marburg virus disease...

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Protect Breastfeeding: Strengthening Workplace Policies for Exclusive Breastfeeding in Nigeria
11 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Protect Breastfeeding: Strengthening Workplace Policies for Exclusive Breastfeeding in Nigeria

Breastfeeding provides essential nutrients to newborns and infants, which translate to proper growth and development from childhood to adulthood. There are many benefits to breastfeeding...

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Building back better from COVID-19: Four insights from the inaugural NiCAFE conference
09 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Building back better from COVID-19: Four insights from the inaugural NiCAFE conference

The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that there is no dropping the ball when it comes to preventing, detecting and responding to infectious disease outbreaks. Therefore,...

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