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By Nigeria Health Watch | June 26, 2019

Antibiotic Misuse: A gap in the sexual health knowledge of Nigerian Youth  

Editor’s Note: This week’s Thought Leadership piece comes from Nigeria Health Watch’s Production Coordinator McHenry Igwe. He writes about a growing practice amongst young sexually active people in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), using antibiotics as a form of contraception, the debilitating side-effects of this practice and how this is a symptom of a much […]

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MTN Continues To Spearhead Intervention to Combat Deadly Scourge Of Substance Abuse

By Nigeria Health Watch | March 4, 2019

In furtherance of the drive to curb the increasing rate of substance abuse in Nigeria, MTN Nigeria, under the Anti Substance Abuse Programme (ASAP) led a multi sectoral roundtable on the substance abuse ecosystem in Nigeria and the need for intensified collaborative action. The forum, which held at the Civic Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos, on […]

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A ray of hope: Fighting codeine and tramadol abuse in Kano state

By Bashar Abubakar | April 23, 2018

“I would take two bottles of codeine in the morning and after like an hour follow up with 200mg of tramadol. At night I would take a bottle of codeine again. The feeling was… indescribable.” Bello Yunusa Adali said he started taking tramadol and codeine in 1997. He was an okada rider and other drug […]

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