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By | January 22, 2025

Kano’s Public Health Security Bill Sets a Model for Nigeria’s Other States

Ibukun Oguntola (Lead Writer) In a landmark step reported on January 19, 2025, the Public Health Security Bill was signed into law by the Kano State Governor, His Excellency Abba Kabir Yusuf. The bill, which serves as a framework for public health surveillance, emergency management, and the protection of healthcare workers, is Nigeria’s first subnational […]

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Strengthening Local Capacity for Disease Detection, Reporting, and Response

By | November 9, 2022

Larry Brilliant, a renowned epidemiologist, once said that “outbreaks are inevitable, but pandemics are optional.” Globally, this inevitability of outbreaks has been even more evident in the last 2 years. In 2022 alone, in addition to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, a case of Circulating vaccine-derived polio virus (cVDPV) was detected in the United States in […]

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Assess. Learn. Improve: Enugu State’s Journey to Closing Health Security Gaps

By | October 3, 2022

By Chibuike Alagboso and Kenneth Ibe (Lead Writers) The re-emergence of infectious diseases is inevitable, as humans continue to interact with the environment in different ways and live in closer proximity to animals. Given that infectious diseases can often start in communities, the value of building stronger and more resilient health systems capable of quickly […]

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Leveraging the Joint External Evaluation to Improve Health Security at Sub-National Level

By | June 29, 2022

By Chibuike Alagboso and Onyinye Oranezi When the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Nigeria, Dr Johnson Simon Mafuka who heads the Infectious Diseases unit at the Federal Medical Center (FMC), Owerri, Imo State said they knew it was a matter of time before the first case would arrive in the state. At the […]

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Nigeria successfully completes Joint External Evaluation of International Health Regulations

By | June 22, 2017

Nigeria has made commendable progress in fulfilling the requirements of the International Health Regulations (IHR). This is the verdict of the 7-day Joint External Evaluation (JEE) process by a team of international experts as they assessed Nigeria’s capacity to prevent, detect and respond to threats of public health significance. At a ceremony to mark the […]

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