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An Epidemic of Parastatals in Nigeria’s Health Sector

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An inconvenient truth about WEFA, the economy and health

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 7, 2014

This article was written from home, as most residents of Abuja have been asked not to go to work to ensure the safe deliberation of WEFA attendees… Everyone that matters in corporate Africa is in Abuja this week! As we have all heard by now, Nigeria’s GDP was rebased recently and this singular action elevated […]

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#BringBackOurDaughters

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 3, 2014

This piece was contributed by Ifeanyi Nsofor. Ifeanyi is a public health physician, working for EpiAfric, in Abuja, Nigeria.  Lately in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, it has become difficult to know what to do. Some days hurt, other days hurt more. We drive around the city’s broad roads, stare at the new World Trade Centre […]

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The passing of the HIV and AIDS Anti-Stigma and Discrimination Bill

By Nigeria Health Watch | April 25, 2014

When the Nigerian National Assembly passed the HIV and AIDS Anti-Stigma and Discrimination Bill, we could no think of any one better to offer a perspective on how significant this was than Fadekemi Akinfaderin-Agarau, the executive director of the NGO; Education as a Vaccine (EVA). This is her take…. On Thursday April 10th, the Senate […]

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In search of the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control

By Nigeria Health Watch | April 22, 2014

Earlier this year, we wrote a blog wondering aloud about the N701Million (USD5M) allocated to the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) that year. We wrote at the time; “we could neither find a physical address nor a website“. We were criticised by some colleagues for not doing enough due diligence to establish the existence and […]

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Rumors of Ebola in Nigeria: the blind leading the blind?

By Nigeria Health Watch | April 8, 2014

The piece below was contributed by Anja Choon, who is joining the Nigeria Health Watch Team. The Ebola outbreak in parts of West Africa is currently (i.e. in March and April of 2014) in the news. The information one gets in Nigeria is however worryingly little and vague, sometimes simply false. As early as 22 […]

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