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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

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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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WHY ARE WE CRYING? WE ARE ALL GUILTY

By Nigeria Health Watch | June 4, 2012

7 years ago, my emotion laden brother Ike Anya wrote this piece after the Sosoliso crash. Today I read it again and share it with you…. true today as it was on the day it was written on Friday December 16 2005.   I am sitting at my computer, transfixed by the images on the […]

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Nigeria Health Watch on Twitter!

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 14, 2012

Are you following Nigeria Health Watch on Twitter? If not …you should. When we started this blog in 2007, Twitter did not exist and we sometimes tried to summarise health stories for you here. But with Twitter – there is a much more efficient way of doing this. Not only do we share health stories out of […]

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IBORI: What does 50 million pounds really mean?

By Nigeria Health Watch | April 22, 2012

Guest post by Chima Onoka  Maxwell lost his wife Ufuoma last December. She was pregnant and started bleeding before her time of delivery. The emergency nurse who attended to her when she was rushed to the hospital rebuked Maxwell for not bringing his wife for antenatal care. But Maxwell could not pay for antenatal care […]

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Killing the Health Bill….slowly

By Nigeria Health Watch | April 11, 2012

Leadership. What is leadership? Not a question we will explore in detail in this blog, but suffice it to say that the barest minimum expected of a leader is to take decisions. Sometimes it is as simple as yes or no, sometimes it is more complex but leaders are there to make decisions. That is the […]

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In dire need of an Emergency Medical Service

By Nigeria Health Watch | March 13, 2012

When as a child my mother returned from a trip to Cairo, I asked her if Egypt was more developed than Nigeria. She asked me what I understood by ‘development’. I was surprised she was asking me what seemed like a no-brainer and went on to answer the question the best way I knew how. […]

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