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Achieving the 3 by 35 Initiative in Nigeria: Are the Current Health Taxes Strong Enough?

Yasir Jamal Bakare and Onyinye Oranezi (Lead writers) In July 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the 3 by 35 Initiative, calling on countries to use health taxes to increase the real retail prices of tobacco, alcohol, and sugary drinks by at least 50% by 2035. WHO presents this as a public health and […]

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When Food Prices Rise, Diets Shrink: Nutrition Under Pressure in Pregnancy and Early Childhood in Nigeria

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Christopher Bassey and Timothy Kovonah (Lead writers) Food prices are reshaping what families eat, how they cook, and how they share meals, with direct implications for nutrition and health. In this photo essay, Nigeria Health Watch tracks one household in a peri-urban community in Abuja over the course of a day, tracing food decisions from […]

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2025 in Review: When the Safety Net Shifted and Nigeria Had to Step Forward

Safiya Shuaibu Isa and Chibuike Alagboso (Lead writers) As 2025 draws to a close, this review captures the lessons of a year that exposed Nigeria’s dependence on external health funding and the reforms now required. The early 2025 pause in external funding and the donor reprioritisation that followed underlined a hard truth. Nigeria’s health security […]

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