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Three Months After Speaking Out, Indabo Residents Still Await Improved PHC Services

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Beyond Awareness: Why Nigeria Must Fund a Period-Friendly Future

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A mango in the backyard that cannot be plucked: FCT indigenes face glaring health inequities

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 7, 2019

Editor’s Note: In this week’s Thought Leadership blog, Nigeria Health Watch Journalist Chibuike Alagboso spotlights health inequities faced by Abuja’s indigenous peoples. They live in one of Africa’s fastest growing cities but lack access to healthcare and social amenities. Nigeria Health Watch’s Director of Policy and Advocacy, Dr Ifeanyi M. Nsofor, conceived the “Health Equity […]

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Between experts and experience: Compassionate advocacy and support for exclusive breastfeeding

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 5, 2019

These are some of the reasons Nigerian mothers give for why they are unable to exclusively breastfeed their babies in the first six months after giving birth. To experts, some of these reasons may seem like excuses, but with Nigeria’s exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) rates as low as 28%, this is far below the global goal […]

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Lassa Fever: Why the Nigerian government should fund disease diagnostics for epidemic preparedness

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 25, 2019

Editor’s Note: Chidindu Mmadu-Okoli is a 2019 #PreventEpidemicsNaija Fellow at Nigeria Health Watch. In this piece she writes about a doctor whose Lassa Fever diagnosis was mis-handled and why funding disease diagnostics is critical for Nigeria’s health security efforts.  Thinking about death might have felt uncomfortable and scary but after a few weeks of being […]

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Let’s talk about sex: What do Nigerian adolescents know about sexual reproductive health?

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 17, 2019

Editor’s Note: Nigeria Health Watch in collaboration with Education As A Vaccine (EVA) recently conducted two Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) in Nyanya and Kuje areas of the Federal Capital Territory, amongst adolescent. The objectives of the FGD was to gauge the perceptions of adolescents about sexual and reproductive health, identify the key issues they face […]

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World Population Day 2019: Is Nigeria in trouble?

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 11, 2019

Thirty years ago, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) established World Population Day, an annual event observed on July 11 every year. The world’s population had hit just over five billion people two years earlier and to commemorate that, World Population Day aimed to raise awareness and to take action on various population issues, such […]

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