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As Efforts Intensify to Contain Bundibugyo Ebola, Women Remain Most Vulnerable to Its Economic Impact

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An Epidemic of Parastatals in Nigeria’s Health Sector

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From Innovation to Integration: What It Will Take to Make Every Pregnancy Safer in Nigeria

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Achieving Zero Malaria by 2030: What Nigeria must do to advance towards elimination

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 1, 2021

By Kemisola Agbaoye (Lead Writer) Malaria is one of the leading causes of death in children under five years of age globally. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), a child dies from malaria every two minutes. Eighty percent of the global malaria burden is carried by 15 countries, 14 of which are in Sub-Saharan […]

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Drug-Resistant Malaria: A Public Health War Nigeria Cannot Afford to Fight

By Nigeria Health Watch | February 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: In today’s Thought Leadership Piece, Dr. Okonkwor Oyor of Hygeia HMO explains the looming threat that ACT-resistant malaria poses to the long global struggle to “roll back malaria”, and shares insights into what Nigeria must begin to do if we are to stall the spread of drug-resistant malaria today.  Malaria has been with […]

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African leaders call for immediate action to save additional lives from malaria in the face of COVID-19

By Nigeria Health Watch | May 12, 2020

11 May 2020 – In response to mounting concerns around the impact of COVID-19 on malaria elimination efforts across the African continent, the African members of the End Malaria Council have released a joint statement and a four-pronged action plan calling on African and global leaders to act quickly to: protect the decades of gains against malaria; boost […]

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Nigeria pledges US$ 12 million at the Sixth Global Fund Replenishment Conference

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 21, 2019

Abuja, 15 October 2019 – HIV, tuberculosis and malaria are preventable and treatable diseases, yet globally they kill more than 2.6 million people each year. The world has committed through the Sustainable Development Goals to end these epidemics by 2030. In a spirit of global solidarity, the Sixth Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund to […]

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New reports focus on malaria eradication goal

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 23, 2019

23 August 2019, Geneva – The RBM Partnership to End Malaria welcomes two new forthcoming reports on the opportunity the world has to achieve the eradication of malaria, a disease which still threatens half the world’s population. The World Health Organization (WHO) Strategic Advisory Group on Malaria Eradication (SAGme) today released an executive summary of its […]

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