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By Nigeria Health Watch | August 20, 2024

Protecting the Future: Kano’s Global Shapers Educate Schoolgirls on HPV and Its Vaccine

Mahdi Garba [Lead writer] When Radeeyah Nasir is not at her job as a registrar in the obstetrics and gynaecology unit of Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Teaching Hospital, Kano, she is part of a team of volunteers raising awareness about the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), among secondary school students in states across Nigeria’s northwest. “There are […]

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Leading The Way: Nigeria’s Next Steps on the Path to Cervical Cancer Elimination

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 25, 2023

Professor Isaac Adewole and H.E. Dr Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu (Guest Writers) Editor’s note: Yesterday, Nigeria achieved a significant milestone by incorporating the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine into its routine immunisation programme. This is a momentous step, and Professor Isaac Adewole and H.E. Dr Zainab Shinkafi-Bagudu describe further actions to take to strengthen the fight against cervical […]

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Towards Cancer Elimination in Africa: Is Rwanda the Example to Follow?

By Nigeria Health Watch | January 10, 2023

By Lydia Atieno (Lead Writer) Thirty-five-year-old Christelle Uwamahoro had always been aware of the significance of cervical cancer screenings. Community health workers in her village went door to door, educating residents and emphasising the importance of early screening for cervical cancer. “Despite this knowledge; I had second thoughts about screening,” she said. However, this all […]

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Waiting in Hope: Alice’s Cervical Cancer Story

By Nigeria Health Watch | December 14, 2022

It has been 10 months since 44-year-old Alice Akin* received a cervical cancer diagnosis. “Will the pain ever go away? It is better to die than to live like this, the pain is too much for me to bear,” She mutters at intervals, tears rolling down her face as she talks about her cancer journey. “It […]

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Nigeria’s First Ladies and the WHO advocate for the urgent need to eliminate cervical cancer

By Nigeria Health Watch | November 17, 2020

Editor’s Note: In this week’s Thought Leadership piece, Nigeria’s First Ladies Against Cancer (FLAC) and Dr Nono Simelela of the World Health Organisation (WHO) advocate for the urgent need to eliminate cervical cancer in Nigeria and align to the global strategy for cervical cancer elimination. In August 2020, for the first time ever, the world […]

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