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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

Jul 04, 2026
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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

Jul 03, 2026
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Why Zambia is Rethinking Tuberculosis Testing, and Why Validation Must Come First

Jul 02, 2026
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Nigerian Minister of Health delivers his midterm report – judge for yourself

By Nigeria Health Watch | June 20, 2013

In his recent widely publicized “midterm report“, our President, Dr Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan, GCFR, BNER, GCON barely mentioned the health sector, other than a few references to the “achievements” of his SURE-P programme. So, we were excited when we gathered that our Minister of Health, Professor C. Onyebuchi Chukwu was asked to brief the press […]

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A medical Exhibition in Africa with very few African Exhibitors

By Nigeria Health Watch | June 10, 2013

There is a lot of talk everywhere about Africa “rising“. This is definitely the case in many sectors of the economy in several African countries. There is definitely a rise in the extractive sectors, which has fuelled the consumerism produced by a growing middle class. This is not only manifest in the expansion of Walmart […]

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Millions of girls in developing countries to be protected against cervical cancer, but …

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 24, 2013

…countries will need to develop the infrastructure to deliver the HPV vaccine to those that need it! This is precisely where we struggle the most in our Nigeria. Most people working in the public health community were excited at the recent announcement by GAVI that it had negotiated a new price of $4 for the […]

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Nigeria – well represented at the 66th World Health Assembly

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 21, 2013

This year, as in most years, we are well represented at the 66th World Health Assembly currently going on in Geneva, with a small delegation of 47 official delegates (listed below). On the opening day, our Minister of Health has assured the world that we will eradicate polio – no shaking. We wish them a […]

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Coping with grief and loss without faces in Baga and Bama

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 12, 2013

Do you know the lady in the picture below? My guess is that you do not, and honestly, neither do I. I found her in one of the very few articles that has dealt with impact of the violence on innocent Nigerian families, who just happen to live in Northeast Nigeria, now also in Nasarawa. One cannot […]

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