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Lessons from the 2026 HFN Conference on Innovation, Financing and Universal Health Coverage

May 20, 2026
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Community-Owned Hand-Pump Wells Are Bringing Safer Water Closer to Villages in Rural Kaduna

May 18, 2026
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First Call, First Care: Why Nigeria Must Protect the Nurses Who Protect Us

May 16, 2026
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Kagarko Villages in Kaduna Still Without Health Posts

May 14, 2026
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The Walk Is Over: ECOWAS Must Now Deliver on Malaria Elimination and Maternal Survival

May 14, 2026
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By | July 27, 2022

#PreventEpidemicsNaija: Advocating for Domestic Resource Mobilisation to Strengthen Nigeria’s Health Security

When the #PreventEpidemicsNaija Campaign was launched in 2018, it was likened to the story of the boy who cried wolf. Why should the country dedicate resources to prepare for an epidemic that might never happen? Today, the project has helped increase awareness and funding — among policymakers and the public — for epidemic preparedness at national and sub-national levels. […]

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Sustaining Excellence: NCDC Gets New Director General

By | September 6, 2021

Onyinye Oranezi & Dara Ajala-Damisa (Lead Writers) Nigerians in the health sector and key stakeholders have waited with bated breath for the announcement of the new Director General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). This is following the appointment of its first Director General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu to lead WHO’s new Pandemic & […]

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President Muhammadu Buhari signs bill for an act to establish the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control

By | November 13, 2018

As a demonstration of his commitment to national health security, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has signed the Bill for an Act to establish the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). Since its establishment in 2011, NCDC has demonstrated its capacity to protect the health of Nigerians by delivering on […]

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NCDC, PHN partner with private sector towards ending epidemics in Nigeria

By | August 7, 2018

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Private Sector Health Alliance of Nigeria (PHN), have launched a new initiative – the Alliance for Epidemic Preparedness and Response (A4EPR). The aim is to develop a formal structure for the private sector to support the Nigerian government through NCDC, in the prevention, preparedness, detection, response […]

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Keeping Nigerian Hospitals Infection-Free: Lagos team develops curriculum to train infection control specialists

By | March 29, 2018

Primum non nocere is a Latin phrase attributed to the ancient Greek Hippocrates that means, “First, to do no harm.” Non-maleficence is one of the most important principles in medicine, and in its simplest translation expresses the expectation that medical practitioners and hospitals should not cause harm to patients. Hospitals are supposed to be where people get […]

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