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From a Fact-Finding Visit to Providing Safe Water for Sauka Community

Gladys helps dispense water to community members and collects payment from them. This money is used to fuel the generator that pumps water and service the generator when it's faulty. Photo credit: Nigeria Health Watch

Big things every so often start in small ways. Louis Pasteur may never have fully conceived the far reaching effects of his innovative contribution to science and medicine.Thomas Edison may never have realised how the invention of a single lightbulb would impact civilisation today. The team that visited Sauka, a rural community of about 3000 […]

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From pickup to delivery: Strengthening healthcare through medical logistics

The Riders for Health couriers help transport samples from very hard to reach locations across Nigeria and other African countries where they work. Photo source: Riders for Health

By Dr. Anthony Olagunju & Chibuike Alagboso (Lead Writers) The Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Gawu in Niger State serves as a Tuberculosis (TB) treatment centre for patients in the zone under the CHALLENGE TB program. The Koninklijke Nederlandse Chemische Vereniging (KNCV) TB foundation, the professional association of chemists, life scientists and process technologists in the […]