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An Epidemic of Parastatals in Nigeria’s Health Sector

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By Nigeria Health Watch | August 20, 2024

Protecting the Future: Kano’s Global Shapers Educate Schoolgirls on HPV and Its Vaccine

Mahdi Garba [Lead writer] When Radeeyah Nasir is not at her job as a registrar in the obstetrics and gynaecology unit of Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Teaching Hospital, Kano, she is part of a team of volunteers raising awareness about the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), among secondary school students in states across Nigeria’s northwest. “There are […]

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Nigeria’s Vaccine Financing: Self-Sufficiency is No Longer a Choice, But a Necessity

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 8, 2024

Tzar Oluigbo (Lead Writer) In 2021, the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published the Partnerships for African Vaccine Manufacturing (PAVM) Framework for Action, calling for 60% of vaccines required by Africans to be made in Africa by 2040 — which is up to 1.7 billion doses annually. Currently, Africa produces only 0.1% of the […]

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Amplifying The Power of Social Listening in HPV Vaccine Rollout

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 19, 2023

By Sunday Oko and Abara Erim (Lead Writers) In a context where people’s perceptions and reactions to public health interventions significantly influence their effectiveness, social listening has become an important tool for catalysing efforts to better understand attitudes and perceptions of public health interventions. Social listening involves actively identifying and analysing conversations of public health […]

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Solar Powered Freezers: A Low Cost but High Impact Strategy Making Critical Vaccines Accessible in Southeast Kenya

By Nigeria Health Watch | November 21, 2022

By Joyce Chimbi (Lead Writer) Kamboo, Yindalani and Yiuma Mavui are a set of hard-to-reach villages located 17 and 28 kilometres away from Makindu sub-county hospital and 10 and 22 kilometres away from the nearest electricity grid. As a result of the distance from the sub-county hospital and not being connected to the grid, the […]

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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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