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Food for Thought – The Dako Community School Feeding Programme nourishing young minds

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 27, 2019

The drive seemed endless. The Nigeria Health Watch and TY Danjuma Foundation (TYDF) teams had driven for almost 40 minutes from Gwagwalada town, one of the area councils in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), but still had not reached their final destination, Dako, a small farming village with a population of about 3000 people. The […]

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Top Ten News Items on Health, 24th May 2019

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 24, 2019

Only 11 of Nigeria’s 774 LGAs are free from open defecation – UNICEF. WHO begins rehabilitation of healthcare facilities in North-east. 14 States Yet to Access N55bn Basic Healthcare Fund, Says Minister. Certificate of Standards: FG begins quality assessment of tertiary health institutions. Police Accused of Raiding Family Planning Clinic. Polio vaccination: Lagos debunks allegation […]

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Training for Quality Delivery: Brown Button’s drive to improve TBAs skills in Lagos

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 24, 2019

Alhaji Sulaimon Junaid wakes up at 5:30 a.m. every day to spend time with pregnant women waiting to deliver their babies in his birthing home — a brown concrete block bungalow in the rural suburb of Epe on the north of Lekki Lagoon in Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos. His birthing home has an office space, […]

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The human cost of the lingering NHIS debacle

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 20, 2019

Jocelyne Agbo still thinks about the death of little Aliyu. The questions keep recurring – “Did he die because his father didn’t do everything he was supposed to? Could I have done more? Could the government have done more to provide basic healthcare for him?” She remembers visiting the Maikunkele community in Bosso local government, […]

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Top Ten News Items On Health, 17th May 2019

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 17, 2019

World Bank appoints Nigeria’s ex-minister, Muhammad Pate, as global director for health. DFID spends N4bn to support 52,393 pregnant women in Zamfara. Boko Haram: Nigeria govt spent over N5 billion on humanitarian services in Borno – Minister. FG proposes 6 medical warehouses – Minister. Malnutrition: Senator seeks import waiver for ready to use therapeutic food. […]

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