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Top Ten News Items on Health, 5th February 2021
05 Feb
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 5th February 2021

COVAX releases list of COVID-19 vaccine recipients, gives Nigeria 16m doses. ANALYSIS: FG budgets N340m to prepare for next health crisis — but N500m for...

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Preparing Nigeria for future pandemics will require building our scientific and research capacity
04 Feb
By Nigeria Health Watch
Preparing Nigeria for future pandemics will require building our scientific and research capacity

By Vivianne Ihekweazu & Atinuke Akande-Alegbe (Lead Writers) “Is Nigeria no longer the GIANT OF AFRICA? Why are we not producing the Covid-19 vaccine yet...

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Nigeria Health Watch presents findings from an assessment of WASH services in PHCs in FCT and Niger State
04 Feb
By Nigeria Health Watch
Nigeria Health Watch presents findings from an assessment of WASH services in PHCs in FCT and Niger State

04 February, 2021 | Abuja – Nigeria Health Watch presents findings from an assessment of WASH services in PHCs  in the  FCT and Niger State...

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Displaced but not forgotten: Organisations delivering family planning services to Abuja’s IDP camps
02 Feb
By Nigeria Health Watch
Displaced but not forgotten: Organisations delivering family planning services to Abuja’s IDP camps

When you are displaced from your home, accessing family planning services is probably the last thing on your mind. You will be more concerned with...

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#PreventEpidemicsNaija Journalism Award
01 Feb
By Nigeria Health Watch
#PreventEpidemicsNaija Journalism Award

On Saturday, January 30, 2021, at the #PreventEpidemicsNaija Journalism Award ceremony, Nigeria Health Watch honoured and celebrated four journalists for their outstanding reportage on raising...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 29th January 2021
29 Jan
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 29th January 2021

COVID-19: FG orders 10m doses of vaccines, extends eased lockdown by 1 month. Stop COVID-19 vaccines misinformation in your domains, FG urges monarchs. NCDC confirms...

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Global leaders in HIV prevention research, policy and advocacy to be recognized at HIVR4P // Virtual
28 Jan
By Nigeria Health Watch
Global leaders in HIV prevention research, policy and advocacy to be recognized at HIVR4P // Virtual

Wednesday, 27 January, 2021 (Geneva, Switzerland) — Researchers, advocates and policy makers advancing global efforts to end HIV/AIDS will be honoured with awards at HIVR4P // Virtual – the HIV Research for Prevention Conference, to...

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World Leprosy Day 2021: Making life count for people affected by Leprosy in Nigeria
27 Jan
By Nigeria Health Watch
World Leprosy Day 2021: Making life count for people affected by Leprosy in Nigeria

By Kenneth Ibe and Onyinye Oranezi (Lead Writers) Mrs Aisha Yunisa, a fifty-year old woman from Niger state, got married in her early twenties and...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 22nd January 2021
22 Jan
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 22nd January 2021

COVID-19: AU vaccine plan proposes up to $10 per dose for Nigeria, others. COVID-19 vaccines won’t alter your DNA, do not contain microchips – Dr...

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‘E nor dey, come tomorrow’ – How vaccine stock-outs affect routine immunisation rates
21 Jan
By Nigeria Health Watch
‘E nor dey, come tomorrow’ – How vaccine stock-outs affect routine immunisation rates

Vaccines administered on the Nigerian National Immunisation schedule are free, right? Ewomazino disagrees. She had given birth to lovely twin boys and the expenses started...

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Your health in 2021: 10 things you should know about accessing healthcare
19 Jan
By Nigeria Health Watch
Your health in 2021: 10 things you should know about accessing healthcare

Editor’s Note: This week’s thought leadership piece comes from Dr Kemi of RelianceHMO, an HMO provider in Nigeria. She works to explain the different types...

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 15th January 2021
15 Jan
By Nigeria Health Watch
Top Ten News Items on Health, 15th January 2021

UNICEF, WHO, IFRC and MSF announce the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile. Ignore those saying COVID-19 vaccine is dangerous, NPHCDA urges Nigerians. Kaduna...

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