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By Nigeria Health Watch | February 21, 2025

MAMII: A Promising Initiative to Crash Maternal Mortality in Nigeria

Onyedikachi Ewe (Lead Writer)  “Health is on the front burner”, and the current administration has set the goal “to crash maternal mortality”. This objective has become a key focus in Nigeria’s health leadership, driving initiatives aimed at addressing and decreasing maternal mortality. The launch of the Maternal and Neonatal Mortality Reduction Innovation and Initiatives (MAMII) during the Joint Annual […]

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Blood on the Line: The Impact of Undiagnosed Bleeding Disorders on Mothers, Infants, and Children

By Nigeria Health Watch | December 14, 2024

Megan Adediran (Lead Writer) Bleeding disorders remain a huge challenge to maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) worldwide, with the burden higher in low-resource countries like Nigeria. These disorders result from the inability of the body to stop bleeding and, if undiagnosed and untreated, may result in life-threatening complications during childbirth and early childhood. This […]

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Strengthening Primary Health Care Service Delivery for Better Maternal and Child Health in Kano State

By Nigeria Health Watch | November 6, 2024

Christopher Bassey (Lead Writer) Maternal mortality continues to critically impact women of reproductive age across Africa. In Nigeria, research shows that maternal and infant mortality rates are highest in the northeast and northwest zones and lowest in the southeast and southwest. Kano State has the highest maternal mortality rate, with 377.8 per 100,000 live births, […]

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Safe Deliveries and Healthy Beginnings: How MSF Is Tackling Maternal and Neonatal Deaths in Jigawa

By Nigeria Health Watch | August 12, 2024

Mahdi Garba (Lead Writer) Hansai Umaru, 22, sits on her hospital bed, blissfully breastfeeding her baby with her mother by her side. Hansai has four children, all of whom were born by Caesarean Section (CS). Although she had previously had three successful deliveries with no major complications, her most recent delivery took a frightening turn. […]

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Reducing Maternal Mortality in Nigeria: The SHI Response

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 18, 2023

Chinonso Kenneth (Lead Writer) In 2016, Dr. Oluwakemisola Agoyi and Dr. Roland Ojo witnessed the benefits and drawbacks of traditional and community-based birth attendants (TBAs and CBAs) in delivering infants in rural and urban communities across Nigeria. During their community immersion programme as medical students at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Dr Agoyi recounted, […]

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