15 Dec
An assignment of Hope: An insight into living with disabilities in Nigeria
By Ebele Vivien Okoli Editor: The 3rd of December was World Disability Day. Ebele Vivien Okoli, a Resident Doctor specialising in Community Medicine at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Enugu, who…
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5 Dec
Time to engage with mental health care in Nigeria
Enyi Anosike is a Public Mental Health professional, and a trustee of the Public Health Foundation of Nigeria. He writes this special piece on mental health in Nigeria on behalf of the…
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1 Dec
HIV elimination goals and the reality of living with HIV in Nigeria
Today is World AIDS day 2015. All over the media in Nigeria, there have been reports on the new goal of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) to “eliminate”…
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10 Nov
Before the SDGs, how did Nigeria really do with the MDGs?
In August 2015, reports emerged in the Nigerian press that “Nigeria had attained the Millennium Development Goals”. The article below quoted the Secretary of Programmes in the Office of the Senior Special…
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20 Oct
One year later, 5 most important lessons from the Nigerian Ebola response
On October 20 2014, almost exactly one year ago, the World Health Organisation declared Nigeria Ebola free, 42 days after the last known case had occurred. At the time the world was…
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13 Oct
Health Watch Forum opens with a celebration of Nigerian heroes
In September 2014, the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone was getting worse by the day. Nigeria had managed to successfully control an outbreak at home, but the rest of…
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