March 01, 2023
Nigeria: Launch of the National Emergency Maternal and Child Health Intervention Centre (NEMCHIC) By NPHCDA
The Kano State Ministry of Health has announced the launch of the Kano State Action Plan for Health Security (KSAPHS), a comprehensive plan aimed at preventing, detecting, and… Read more »
February 27, 2023
Nigeria: How GIS Microplanning Is Revolutionising Immunisation Campaigns in Kano State
Technology is enhancing healthcare in Nigeria, as demonstrated by the use of GIS mapping in Kano State to improve vaccinators' performance and address the resurgence of polio… Read more »
February 22, 2023
Nigeria: Connecting Nigeria - Five Ways Starlink Could Expand Access to Quality Health Services
Starlink, the internet service operated by Elon Musk's SpaceX launched in Nigeria three weeks ago with a lot of excitement and expectations. In a tweet, President Muhammadu Buhari… Read more »
February 21, 2023
Nigeria: Returning to Heal - How Regions Healthcare Is Improving Access to Quality Care in Imo State and Beyond
There is a reverse side to Nigeria's medical brain drain. Healthcare professionals from the diaspora are showing their readiness to come back home and establish medical facilities.… Read more »
February 15, 2023
Nigeria: Universal Health Care in Nigeria - Accelerating the NHIA Act's Implementation
In February 2023, the Director General of the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Professor Mohammed Sambo, inaugurated a committee to develop the NHIA Operational… Read more »
February 13, 2023
Nigeria: Primary Health Centre Renovations Revitalise Community Healthcare in Ogun State
Any effort to strengthen health systems must begin at the primary healthcare level, as it is the foundation of a nation's healthcare. To boost Ogun State's PHC system, in 2020, the… Read more »
February 11, 2023
Nigeria: Public Health Communication During a Health Emergency - What We Have Learned
"We've learned collectively that transparency, openness, and the communication of credible information to people in real-time results in functional responses by people"- Dr Mike… Read more »
February 08, 2023
Nigeria: From the Lunacy Act to the First Mental Health Act in Nigeria - Five Takeaways
In January 2023, a little over six decades after the Lunacy Act of 1958 was established, giving medical practitioners the power to detain people suffering from mental illnesses,… Read more »
January 26, 2023
Africa: Africa At a Public Health Crossroads - Five Lessons From the 2nd International Conference On Public Health in Africa 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic opened a 'Pandora's box' of never-ending problems putting enormous pressure on global health systems, exposing biases in global public health practices and… Read more »
January 23, 2023
Nigeria: RICOM3 - a Collaborative Effort to Reduce Maternal Deaths From Indirect Causes in Nigeria
It is a little-known fact that 5-10% of pregnancies in Nigeria are complicated by hypertension issues. Despite the significant burden of maternal mortality and morbidity (MMM),… Read more »
February 04, 2023
Africa: From a Fellowship to a Movement - the Future of Public Health in Africa
Editor's Note: Established in honour of the late Kofi Annan, the Kofi Annan Global Health Leadership Programme aims to support senior aspirational African public health leaders… Read more »
January 18, 2023
Nigeria: Nigeria Health Watch Announces the Third Edition of #preventepidemicsnaija Journalism Awards 2023
Nigeria Health Watch is excited to announce the third edition of the #PreventEpidemicsNaija Journalism Awards ceremony to celebrate evidence-based and accurate reportage of funding… Read more »
Nigeria: The 63rd National Council On Health - Towards Building a Resilient and Sustainable Health System
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was making progress toward achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, since the onset of the pandemic, the call for… Read more »
February 06, 2023
Nigeria: Serving Freshness - How Coldhubs Is Tackling Food Waste in Nigeria
In his shop in Relief Market in Owerri, Imo State, Sadisu Sani popularly called Zuma, is surrounded by vegetables of all shapes, sizes and colours. The middle-aged man has been in… Read more »
January 30, 2023
Nigeria: Eat-Learn-Play - Bridging the Nutrition and Education Gap for Wassa's Displaced Children
At first glance, the buildings that house the classrooms of the Transitional Learning Centre, Wassa, appear to have been designed to blend them into the brown sun scorched terrain… Read more »
February 06, 2023
Nigeria: Why We Must Accelerate the Inclusion of Noma as a Neglected Tropical Disease
A mysterious figure dressed all in black, she appeared to be invisible as she slipped through the Laraba (Wednesday) market crowd in my village in northern Nigeria. The only… Read more »
January 04, 2023
Nigeria: From 'Stalled' to 'Transiting' - Activating Nigeria's Demographic Dividend
Every year, at the National Council on Health (NCH), health leaders across Nigeria congregate to deliberate and approve policies aimed at improving the health of all Nigerians. The… Read more »
January 02, 2023
Nigeria: Looking Ahead in 2023 - Rekindling Hope in Nigeria's Health Sector
The start of a new year comes with fresh expectations, hopes, and dreams. In 2018, Nigeria Health Watch hosted its inaugural Future of Health Conference with the theme "Defining… Read more »
December 28, 2022
Nigeria: Reflecting On Nigeria's Health Sector in 2022 - Hope for 2023?
The resilience of the health sector was tested when the COVID-19 pandemic impacted global economies and health sectors simultaneously in 2020. Routine health programmes in Nigeria,… Read more »
December 26, 2022
Nigeria: Jela's Development Initiatives - Promoting Inclusiveness in Mental Health Interventions
The World Health Organization (WHO) clearly states that complete emotional and mental well-being are critical components of good health care. Efforts to improve access to mental… Read more »
December 21, 2022
Nigeria: Family Planning Offers a Pathway to Universal Health Coverage but Will Nigeria Take It?
The recent International Conference on Family Planning (ICFP) saw Thailand host up to 3,500 reproductive health and family planning experts and advocates in Pattaya City, Thailand.… Read more »
December 20, 2022
Cameroon: Made in Cameroon - the Locally Fabricated Incubator Designed to Give Pre-Term Babies a Fighting Chance
Two years ago, Stella Kimbi lost her first baby. "At 28 weeks of my pregnancy, I started bleeding and was taken to the hospital. I delivered a small baby and was told the baby had… Read more »
April 15, 2020
Nigeria: Handwashing - a Lifesaver Too Many Have Had to Live Without
Two million, sixty-seven thousand, nine hundred people -- that is the number of persons currently infected with the new coronavirus as at publication, and every day that number… Read more »
March 12, 2020
Nigeria: Breathe in, Breathe Out - Nigeria's Air Quality a Silent Health Hazard
Editor's Note: In this week's Thought Leadership Piece, Nigeria Health Watch Programme Coordinator Patience Adejo explores the state of Nigeria's air quality, how it affects the… Read more »
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