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By Guest Author | September 30, 2026

World Heart Day: Nigeria can bring sickle cell care closer to children

Jagat Narula and Bente Mikkelsen (Guest writers) Last week at the United Nations, the Governments of Nigeria and Uganda, with the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, Africa CDC, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and the World Coalition on Sickle Cell Disease, launched OneSCD, the first global partnership dedicated to sickle cell disease (SCD). Nigeria was […]

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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 […]

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World Heart Day: Coalition calls for concerted effort to eliminate trans fats in Nigeria

By Nigeria Health Watch | September 30, 2020

As part of events marking this year’s World Heart Day, the Network for Health Equity and Development (NHED) and Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), have called for concerted efforts in the regulation of trans fats use in Nigeria. NHED and CAPPA, in a statement issued in Abuja said that the World Heart Day commemorated September […]

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