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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

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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

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

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By Guest Author | June 25, 2026

How Antibiotic Abuse Fuel Deaths in Ghana: Pharmacies and street hawkers aid prescription disaster

Emmanuel K. Dogbevi  Kofi, 38, married with three children, works as a commercial minibus driver known in Ghana as  ‘tro-tro’. He plies along the Accra–Kaneshie route in the Greater Accra region. One morning he woke up complaining of fever, chills, and general body weakness. When he consulted a physician at the Korle-bu Teaching Hospital in […]

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Meeting Nigerians working on TB from all over the continent meet in Ghana

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 26, 2013

Tuberculosis is one of the oldest diseases known, yet one of the most difficult to control. Nigeria has the second highest burden of TB in Africa and the 4th highest in the world. In order to have a good estimate of the burden of TB in Nigeria, the National TB Control Programme of the Federal […]

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Nigerians on the average die 13 years sooner than Ghanaians

By Nigeria Health Watch | February 17, 2011

So very often in discussing the state of affairs in our country, we tend to compare ourselves to countries in the West, to the “Asian Tigers” or the BRIC nations. Lately we have adopted a more rationale path of comparing ourselves to our neighbors. The most obvious of these being Ghana. We share a colonial heritage with our […]

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