Nigeria: 2025 in Review - When the Safety Net Shifted and Nigeria Had to Step Forward

As 2025 draws to a close, this review captures the lessons of a year that exposed Nigeria's dependence on external health funding and the reforms now required. The early 2025 pause… Read more »

Nigeria: Keeping Noma Under Control - Why Nigeria Must Not Lose Momentum

For too long, noma has remained a disease of silence, devastating children in extremely poor and socially excluded communities. In Nigeria, the infection disproportionately affects… Read more »

Nigeria: Why Health Insurance Must Be On Every Nigerian's Holiday Plan

Across Nigeria, December has its own rhythm. Flights are packed, roads are busier, and plans for family reunions, weddings, and "just one more" trip before the year ends pile up… Read more »

Nigeria: Smart Paper Technology Is Transforming Community Health Data Capture in the Gambia

For decades, health facilities across The Gambia have relied on paper registers to record antenatal, delivery, postnatal, immunisation, and child health data. The handwritten logs,… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria and United States Sign Landmark Agreement to Strengthen Health Security, Expand Primary Care, and Drive Self-Reliance

The Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Government of the United States of America today signed a landmark technical Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to deepen… Read more »

Nigeria: Open Letter to the Distinguished Senators and Honourable Members - Pass the Customs and Excise Tariffs (Consolidation) (Amendment) Bill

Dear Distinguished Senators and Honourable Members, Read more »

Nigeria: How the Facility Health Committee Is Keeping Krosha Clinic Open Amid Neglect and Decay

For residents of Krosha, in Kaduna State, keeping their only health clinic open has become a daily struggle shadowed by decay, neglect, and fear. What happens when a community's… Read more »

Nigeria: Beyond Aid - How Health Data Is Becoming the New Currency of Global Power

For decades, global health governance was shaped by aid flows, multilateral institutions, and shared norms of solidarity. Countries received funding, technical assistance, and… Read more »

Nigeria: Linking Informal Providers to Better Primary Care in Urban Communities

When Grace's son developed a high fever one evening in Ikirike, an informal settlement in Enugu, the nearest primary health care (PHC) centre was closed. She unable to fford the… Read more »

Kenya: From Stored Harvests in Kenya to Lost Farmlands in Nigeria - How Communities Face Two Climate Realities

In the remote drylands of Isiolo County in northern Kenya, Chuqlisa Arero and her fellow livestock keepers have borne the brunt of prolonged droughts that have devastated their… Read more »

Africa: Financing Health From Within - How Tobacco, Alcohol and Sugar Taxes Can Support Africa's Health Priorities

Africa's health sector is facing an unprecedented funding crisis, driven in part by a sharp decline in external health aid, which has fallen by 70% between 2021 and 2025. This… Read more »

Nigeria: A Health Centre in Name Only - the Hard Reality in Igbe Laara

The struggle pregnant women face at the Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Igbe Laara located in Ikorodu, Lagos, is a daily reminder that a building alone cannot save lives. Mothers… Read more »

Nigeria: From Ruin to Relief - a Renovated Phc Brings Safer Care to a Kano Community

When labour pains began at midnight, 38-year-old Aisha Sunusi from Koya village faced a familiar fear. The nearest hospital in Shanono Local Government Area (LGA) was several… Read more »

Nigeria: A Solar Power Project Is Keeping Primary Healthcare Centres Running in Abuja

For more than six years, Olufunke Bamidele and her family have used the Primary Health Care (PHC) Centre, in Lugbe, a community in Abuja, Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory (FCT).… Read more »

Nigeria: Pregnant Women Face Growing Danger At Gauraka PHC

Pregnant women are increasingly relying on traditional birth attendants and home births in Gauraka town of Niger State, due to an overstretched clinic. For many, the danger begins… Read more »

Nigeria: First Volunteer Receives Lassa Fever Vaccine in Cutting-Edge Oxford Trial

The Oxford Vaccine Group has vaccinated the first volunteer in a first-in-human trial of a Lassa vaccine The CEPI-funded trial is being conducted in Oxford, with a second phase 1… Read more »

Nigeria: Unpacking NCH 66 - Nigeria's UHC Priorities and the Gaps That Lie Ahead

At the 66th National Council on Health (NCH), one message resonated clearly: health in Nigeria must be regarded as a right, not a privilege. This notion was strongly emphasised in… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria's HIV Response Depends On Stronger Domestic Funding

In early 2025, the United States announced a temporary pause in foreign aid that affected several health programmes in Nigeria. In Lagos, a young mother arrived at her clinic for a… Read more »

Nigeria: Hands On His Knees, Akin 'Shuga' Tofowmo Refused to Be Defined By Polio - Tribute to a Friend

On 30 October 2025, news broke out of the blue that Akin "Shuga" Tofowomo had passed away suddenly while undergoing surgery in Canada. From the shock, followed by tears and a slow… Read more »

Nigeria: Why Menopause Must Be Part of Nigeria's Sexual and Reproductive Health Agenda

When Ngozi (not her real name) turned 48, she noticed small changes she could not explain. Her sleep became disturbed, she woke up drenched in sweat, and her once-calm disposition… Read more »

Nigeria: Community Trades Worship for Wellness, Saving Dorawar Sallau PHC

What does it take for a community to access lifesaving care? For the Dorawar Sallau community in Garun Malam Local Government Area (LGA), Kano state, it took a sacred sacrifice:… Read more »

Africa: Lancet Countdown Africa Publishes Landmark Report On Climate Change and Health in Africa

PRETORIA - Climate change is driving economic losses in developing nations. It's slowing progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals and worsening threats such as infectious… Read more »

Nigeria: Community Health Promoters Are Boosting Modern Contraceptive Use Among Kenyan Somali Women

According to the 2022 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS), the use of modern contraceptive methods among married women increased from 53% in 2014 to 57% in 2022. Despite… Read more »

Africa: Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty As the Global Fund Secures U.S.$11.34 Billion in Ongoing Replenishment

In 2001, when the late Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations was championed the creation of the Global Fund, he is famously quoted as saying "When I first… Read more »

Nigeria: Restored Hope - Marmara PHCs New Paediatric Ward Transforms Child Emergency Care in Kano Municipal

In 2024, a Community Health Watch report covered by Nigeria Health Watch revealed the absence of a functional paediatric ward at Marmara PHC, Kano State forcing many families to… Read more »