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By Nigeria Health Watch | February 20, 2024

Building a Community Network for Health Misinformation Management

Abara Erim and Sunday Oko (Lead Writers) “I consumed large amounts of garlic or sometimes ingested excessive vitamins to prevent infection. Others also resorted to drinking substances like ‘agbo’ to prevent Coronavirus.”Smith Jow** during the peak of COVID-19 pandemic “The HPV Vaccine causes infertility, and it is a plan by the West to reduce the […]

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Nigeria Health Watch Partners with Niger State Health Ministries to Tackle Health Misinformation

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 20, 2023

Nigeria Health Watch, in partnership with the Niger State Ministry of Secondary and Tertiary Health and the Niger State Ministry of Primary Health, commences Health Misinformation Management Fellowship in Niger state. This initiative is focused on countering health misinformation and promoting the dissemination of accurate health information within the state. In recent years, health misinformation […]

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A friendly football match, Ebola, and infodemics

By Nigeria Health Watch | June 14, 2018

Editor’s Note: As the Democratic Republic of Congo works to curb an Ebola outbreak, Nigerians expressed strong reactions to the proposal of a friendly match on the 25th of May, 2018 between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and Congo-Kinshasa of Democratic Republic of Congo. In this week’s Thought Leadership Piece, Dr Ibrahim Mamadu, an Epidemiologist […]

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