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Good news…Birth Registration Strategy! Health Minister – Not yet!
Good news for public health planning, evaluation and research. The Federal Government has said it would on July 24, formally launch a nationwide child birth registration strategy. OK…its just the…
Feedback on Restoring Health
The Nigerian Public Health Network published this just before the new Nigerian government came into power as a discussion document. As we still wait for President Yaradua's cabinet to be…
Big Tobacco on trial , updates on Pfizer and Friends Africa
It's good to see that Nigeria is finally moving against British American Tobacco. A report in The Independent states that the Kano State Government has sued the tobacco giant over…
HIV/AIDS stigma and other issues
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…
TED Global Photos
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
Proudly Nigerian at TEDGlobal
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…
Pfizer and the 1996 meningitis outbreak in Nigeria: Who is lying?, and 9 other questions
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…
Measles outbreak update, civil society oversight and some cheering notes
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…
Another Measles Outbreak
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…
Blogging Nigeria's Health Scene
Why start a blog about health and health care in Nigera, who has time to read them...and really who cares? Questions we asked ourselves. Ike Anya and I have frequently…