Follow us
Nigeria Health Watch
Follow us:
Subscribe to our Newsletter
breadcrumb banner

non-communicable diseases

Search

Categories

Recent Posts

Post Image

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

Jul 03, 2026
Post Image

Community Feedback Prompts PHC Upgrade in Gauraka, Niger State

Jul 03, 2026
Post Image

Why Zambia is Rethinking Tuberculosis Testing, and Why Validation Must Come First

Jul 02, 2026
Post Image

From Autonomy to Accountability: Can Local Governments Deliver Better Primary Health Care in Nigeria?

Jul 01, 2026
Post Image

In Kaduna Communities, Tailors Are Bridging the Family Planning Trust Gap

Jun 29, 2026
Blog Image
By Nigeria Health Watch | September 27, 2024

Nigeria’s New Policies for Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases: Time for Multisectoral Action

Tzar Oluigbo (Lead Writer) Nigeria stands at a critical crossroads poised to become a double-burden country where non-communicable diseases (NCDs) threaten to surpass communicable diseases, with NCDs claiming 565 lives per 100,000 Nigerians, and 447,800 lives globally, disproportionately affecting low- and middle-income countries. The recent NCD policy launch hosted by the Federal Ministry of Health […]

Read More
Blog Image 26 Oct

From Curative to Preventive: Tackling the Cardiovascular Disease Burden in Nsukka

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 26, 2022

By Beti Baiye and Oluwatoyosi Aibinuomo (Lead Writers) Anyone watching 23-year-old Okenyi Collins as he went about his business at the Heart Disease Prevention and Training Centre (HDPTC) Nsukka, might have mistaken him for a caregiver to any of the elderly patients waiting to see the cardiologist. It was therefore interesting when he said he […]

Read More
Blog Image 6 Oct

Handle Your Heart with Care: Curbing the Rise of Non-Communicable Diseases in Nigeria.

By Nigeria Health Watch | October 6, 2022

We got to Zenith Medical & Kidney Centre at 6:50am, and already, the place was beginning to fill up. Thankfully, we were early enough for my father to get connected to a dialysis machine before 7:30am. My mother and I found a parking space in the shade and tried to make ourselves comfortable. It was […]

Read More
Blog Image 5 Jan

The African Medical Centre of Excellence: If You Build It They Will Come

By Nigeria Health Watch | January 5, 2022

By Oluwafolakemi Ajala (Lead Writer) On the morning of December 7th, 2021, as we walked into the tent set up for the ground-breaking ceremony of the African Medical Centre of Excellence (AMCE), in the Apo-Kabusa area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), the beat of the local drums invited us to move to their beat. […]

Read More
Blog Image 19 Sep

Will Nigeria’s STEPwise Survey change the narrative around NCDs?

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 19, 2018

Editor’s Note: Ahead of the 3rd UN High-level meeting on non-communicable diseases holding on September 27th in New York, Staff Writer Chibuike Alagboso highlights the prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)  in Nigeria and analyses the government’s recent steps towards understanding the data with the aim of monitoring trends and encouraging surveillance and regular data collection for NCDs. It […]

Read More