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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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Salient Advisory report calls on stakeholders to accelerate the impact and scale of African health-tech innovators
08 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Salient Advisory report calls on stakeholders to accelerate the impact and scale of African health-tech innovators

6th August 2021 |Abuja – Nigeria Health Watch in partnership with Salient Advisory recently held a webinar themed “Innovation in Health Product distribution – Key...

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Family Planning 2030: CSOs as Advocates for Achieving Nigeria’s FP2030 Targets
07 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Family Planning 2030: CSOs as Advocates for Achieving Nigeria’s FP2030 Targets

By Stephen Enoch (Lead Writer) Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, has an estimated population of about 200 million people, making it the seventh most populous...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 6th August 2021
06 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 6th August 2021

FG declares third wave of COVID-19 pandemic amid strike action by medical doctors. COVID-19: US delivers 4m doses Moderna vaccines to Nigeria to combat pandemic...

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Breastfeeding Fact Sheet
04 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Breastfeeding Fact Sheet

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Human-centered Design for Life: How Smiles for Mothers is Keeping Mothers Alive
02 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
Human-centered Design for Life: How Smiles for Mothers is Keeping Mothers Alive

About one in every five global maternal deaths happens in Nigeria. Improving maternal health outcomes must remain a key priority that generates urgent policy action....

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The Global Education Summit and the Nigerian Paradox
01 Aug
By Nigeria Health Watch
The Global Education Summit and the Nigerian Paradox

President Muhammadu Buhari and other global leaders gathered in London for a two-day Global Education Summit that aims to raise US$5 billion for education globally....

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