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Nigeria is estimated to have the 3rd largest number of people living with HIV in the world after India and South Africa HIV and the stigma that it carries within…

Photos from TED Global 2007http://www.nigeriahealthwatch.com/ Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has...Margaret Mead

Having been recommended by a friend, I ended up with 99 other young Africans that received a fellowship to attend a conference called TEDGlobal in Arusha, Tanzania. Not being quite…

It is now common knowledge that Pfizer used a drug trovafloxacin (commonly called Trovan) to treat Nigerians in a 1996 cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) outbreak in Nigeria’s Kano district. This drug…

The death toll from the measles outbreak in Borno continues to rise with 80 deaths reported by Thisday newspaper as at yesterday. There is still little evidence of an intensified…

The Nigerian Guardian reports that 60 children have died from a measles outbreak in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. 400 other children are said to be infected. If we are to…