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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

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The Public Hearing of the Tobacco Smoking Control Bill and nine others

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 22, 2014

A Nigeria Health Watch team attended a public hearing of 10 health sector bills by the House of Representatives, joint committee on health on Wednesday the 16th of July. It was our first time at the national assembly, and it was an enlightening experience. Firstly, we wondered whether it was a good idea to have […]

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Can the returning Diaspora Professionals inspire improved Quality in the Health Sector?

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 15, 2014

The last few years have seen an increasing number of African professionals who have studied and worked abroad returning to work in Africa, partly driven by the economic recession in the West, and partly driven by increasing investment and opportunities on the continent. This phenomenon, which initially seemed to be confined to non-health professionals, slowly […]

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Putting “safety” back into the Federal Road Safety Commission

By Nigeria Health Watch | July 8, 2014

There has always been something different about the Federal Road Safety Corps when compared to all the other uniformed forces on our roads in Nigeria. Something about them makes us road users a bit more wary when we are stopped by one of their teams. We know that this may not be one of those […]

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Something special: donating blood

By Nigeria Health Watch | June 24, 2014

14 June 2014 was the “World Blood Donor Day”. Members of the NHW team recently visited the Nigerian National Blood Transfusion Service and subsequently joined them on one of their blood drives. We bring you an account of our visit which was followed by donating blood ourselves. Read our story and go off yourself to […]

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NOIPolls – Asking Nigerians what they Think about Everything, including their Health

By Nigeria Health Watch | June 17, 2014

Did you hear that smoking in public places is now banned in Lagos? According to a recent poll conducted by NOIPolls, nine out of ten Nigerians support this law, which is aimed at protecting their health from second-hand smoking. “And this result of our poll might be used to support the expansion of the anti-tobacco […]

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