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Solutions-focused reporting on what is working, how it works, and what it takes to sustain and scale impact. We examine policies, programmes, and community-led innovations that are improving health outcomes, and we explain the “how” behind performance, including design, leadership, financing, implementation, and accountability. These stories help practitioners and decision makers adapt proven approaches to new contexts.

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Masaki: A Community’s Approach to Ending Hunger and Malnutrition in Jigawa State

Mahdi Garba and Safiya Shuaibu Isa (Lead writers) Every Wednesday for the past four years, Abdulrahman Hannatu, a trained community health worker with the Masaki nutrition programme, wakes up at exactly 5:45 a.m., gets dressed, and prepares for the day’s nutrition class near the Danmasara community ward head’s residence. During the weekly class, Hannatu and her assistant […]

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A Grantsmanship and Mentorship Programme is Shaping the Future of Medical Research in Nigeria

Chioma Nnamani (Lead writer) “Healthcare research is not just about research,” Dr Olajide Sobande, Executive Director of the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research Foundation, explained. “It’s about economy, it’s about security, it’s about development. They say the next pandemic is just a time away. The question remains; have we developed local capacity to be able […]

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Increasing Access: ASHIA Cracks the Code on Health Insurance for Anambra’s Informal Sector

Tzar Oluigbo (Lead writer) Men in oil-stained overalls, shouting vehicle conductors and market women rushing to catch a Keke — a commercial tricycle. Nothing about this chaos at Caeli Park in Awka suggests that health insurance is being quietly rolled out. But that is exactly what is happening. Sunday Nwankwo, a taxi driver, was not feeling himself […]

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A Network of People Living with HIV Fighting Stigma in Plateau State

Dorcas Daniel Tyena (Lead writer) About 80% of new HIV infections in Nigeria are sexually transmitted from unprotected consensual intercouse. While some are diagnosed with the virus at birth, others, like Rose Gyang, 45, contracted it through rape. Nine years ago, Zadchlo International Foundation (ZIF), a nonprofit organisation working to improve the quality of life […]

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Enugu’s Type 2 Primary Healthcare Centres Bring Quality Healthcare Closer to Communities

Tzar Oluigbo (Lead writer) “The goal of citing Primary Health Centres is that people should not have to walk for more than 5 kilometres to access them,” — World Health Organization recommendation. Beneath the shade of a mango tree, a group of women in Otuku, a small community in Enugu East Local Government Area (LGA) of Enugu […]

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