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Good report – BUT how do we move from reports to impact

By Nigeria Health Watch | January 20, 2011

Every year our Federal Ministry of Health, and the multitude of development partners at its service produce hundreds of reports about their plans and activity. Most of these reports are hidden away on dusty shelves, deep inside websites that no one goes to. Many of the reports are poor and will not stand the scrutiny of enlightened […]

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A short letter to our presidential candidates

By Nigeria Health Watch | January 14, 2011

Dear Presidential Candidates, While you argue about the most banal issues such as zoning arrangements, single or double terms, north and south etc and all the other issues that do not matter to the average Nigerian, and indeed simply insult our intelligence we want to offer you some publicly available data on health that might help you decide on what […]

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River Blindness: an emerging success story and the Nigerian lady that drove it…

By Nigeria Health Watch | January 4, 2011

Those that went to medical school in the University of Nigeria in 90s will remember an articulate, passionate and scholarly teacher we had in first year. Her course “Parasitology” was the first brand new, medical topic we would be exposed to. In retrospect we were incredibly lucky to have Dr Uche Amazigo as our teacher. This year, […]

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Will 2011 see an awakening in our Ministry of Health

By Nigeria Health Watch | January 1, 2011

2010 has been a difficult year for keeping tabs on our Federal Ministry of Health. We have our 3rd Minister of Health in 4 years, and there is little to celebrate about. At Nigeria Health Watch (NHW), we were excited when a sister blog of the Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas posted a […]

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Bringing our health data to life!

By Nigeria Health Watch | December 22, 2010

For a long time, our leaders have taken Nigerians for a ride, quoting astronomical amounts of money for delivering nothing. One major reason for this is that we had no way of knowing more than they told us. We relied on NTA News to tell us what our Government was doing with our funds….and we […]

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