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As Efforts Intensify to Contain Bundibugyo Ebola, Women Remain Most Vulnerable to Its Economic Impact

Jul 06, 2026
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An Epidemic of Parastatals in Nigeria’s Health Sector

Jul 04, 2026
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From Innovation to Integration: What It Will Take to Make Every Pregnancy Safer in Nigeria

Jul 03, 2026
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Community Feedback Prompts PHC Upgrade in Gauraka, Niger State

Jul 03, 2026
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Why Zambia is Rethinking Tuberculosis Testing, and Why Validation Must Come First

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From ‘Stalled’ to ‘Transiting’: Activating Nigeria’s Demographic Dividend

By Nigeria Health Watch | January 4, 2023

Every year, at the National Council on Health (NCH), health leaders across Nigeria congregate to deliberate and approve policies aimed at improving the health of all Nigerians. The NCH, legislated through the National Health Act 2014 remains the highest decision-making body on matters relating to health in Nigeria. The 63rd NCH which kicked off on […]

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Family Planning Offers a Pathway to Universal Health Coverage But Will Nigeria Take It?

By Nigeria Health Watch | December 21, 2022

The recent International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) saw Thailand host up to 3,500 reproductive health and family planning experts and advocates in Pattaya City, Thailand. The country reduced their total fertility rate from 6.15 to 1.5 between 1960 and 2020. They therefore had significant learnings to share on the ways they were able to […]

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Towards FP2030: Expanding Access to Family Planning to Achieve the Twenty Seven Percent

By Nigeria Health Watch | March 30, 2022

Improving access to quality healthcare is dependent on an effective health system that enables the promotion, prevention and reduction of premature and preventable deaths. However, providing access to essential health services, especially family planning (FP), requires sustained financial commitment. The 2018 Nigeria Demographic Health Survey (NDHS) showed a modern contraceptive prevalence rate of 13%. The […]

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Leveraging the Private Sector to Expand Access to Family Planning — Without Compromising Quality

By Nigeria Health Watch | March 7, 2022

By Iyadunni Olubode (Lead Writer) It has been a rough couple of years for maternal health. COVID-19 dealt a major blow to our health system, setting us back in our efforts to improve care quality and equity to help pregnant women survive and thrive.In order to sufficiently tackle our nation’s maternal health crisis, however, we […]

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Nigeria commits to allocating a minimum of 1% of the National and State Health annual budgets to increase financing for family planning by 2030 at global event to mark the next decade of the FP2030 partnership

By Nigeria Health Watch | November 19, 2021

Leaders from across the reproductive health space including Melinda French Gates and UNFPA Executive Director Natalia Kanem gathered at the global event LAUNCHING FP2030: Moving Forward Together to Transform the Future introducing the transformed FP2030 partnership and its new leadership alongside the first FP2030 commitments from national governments and donors. The inclusive and wide-reaching new […]

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