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Every human life has equal value?

By Nigeria Health Watch | November 9, 2010

I am sitting in my friend’s living room in Lagos in mid-October. Her boisterous young sons occasionally tear themselves away from the cartoons they are watching on television to interrupt our conversation. She is telling me about her latest shift in the Children Emergency Room at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, where she works as […]

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24 Hours to Nigeria: Partnership for Health II

By Nigeria Health Watch | November 5, 2010

Dear Friends,  You will have noticed that things have been a bit slow on the blog lately. We have been busy putting together a conference Nigeria: Partnership for Health II.  In organising this with colleagues in the Public Health Foundation of Nigeria – two things have made quite an impression.  Firstly is the incredible power of […]

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Polio in Nigeria – An emerging success story

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 19, 2010

Vaccinations are celebrated as one of the miracles of modern medicine. In the past 50 years, it has saved more lives worldwide than any other medical product or procedure.The development of the polio vaccines led to the first modern mass vaccination campaigns. The global effort to eradicate polio began in 1988, and as of 2010, […]

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Twitter and Nigeria Health Watch

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 9, 2010

Long before we started blogging, we would copy and paste the few stories on health from the Nigerian press on emails, and send these round. When we started blogging, we would intermittently dedicate one blog to news articles. We knew this was inefficient, but we were trying to find a balance between informed commentary on the […]

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Cry my beloved Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 1, 2010

I cannot forget reading the epic “Cry the beloved country” in my early teens, and the impact it had on my life. This novel by Alan Paton is the deeply moving story of characters in apartheid South Africa, set against the background of a land and a people ravaged by racial injustice, of unfulfilled dreams, […]

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