Nigeria: Gombe Health Summit 2025 - Financing Accountability As the New Frontier of Reform

Sheriff Gbadamosi and Uche Kennedy (Lead Writers) Read more »

Nigeria: An Uncompleted PHC Leaves Sabon Gayan Community Struggling

On a rainy afternoon, Nurse Comfort John rushed to cover patient files with plastic bags as water dripped steadily through the leaking roof of Sabon Gayan Primary Healthcare Centre… Read more »

Nigeria: Closing Nigeria's Digital Readiness Gap in Epidemic Surveillance

Over the past decade, Nigeria has made significant progress in strengthening its disease surveillance capacity, particularly through digital innovation. One of the most impactful… Read more »

Nigeria: DRASA Health Trust Marks 10 Years of Impact With Bold Vision for the Future

Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh (DRASA) Health Trust is celebrating its 10th anniversary, marking a decade of developing Health Champions, supporting Nigeria's health systems, and… Read more »

Nigeria: How PHC Accountability Tracka Is Empowering Communities to Demand Better Healthcare

In Maitumbi, a community in Niger State, mothers continue to give birth on mats laid on the floor of the local health centre, a level two facility meant to benefit from the Basic… Read more »

Nigeria: Tackling Period Poverty Is Now a National Policy, but Can It Become Reality?

In August 2025, Nigeria made history. For the first time, menstrual health was formally recognised as a national development priority, with the validation of the National Policy on… Read more »

Nigeria: Health Workers' Impossible Workloads Are Deepening Nigeria's Doctor-Patient Crisis

On September 1st, 2025, the medical community and Nigerians were shaken by the tragic news of the passing of Dr. Femi Rotifa, a Resident Doctor in the Department of Surgery at the… Read more »

Nigeria: A Year of Progress At Kofar Fada PHC, Kano State, but the Work Is Not Done

According to Malam Isa Muhammad Abbas, the Chief Imam of Wudil, the women in the community feel uncomfortable being attended to by male health workers. "We need more female staff… Read more »

Nigeria: Nigeria's PHC Revitalisation - Ambition, Reality, and the Urgency for Accountability

For millions of Nigerians, primary healthcare (PHC) remains the first point of contact for their health needs. It is where mothers go for antenatal visits, children receive their… Read more »

Africa: Helium Credit Is Financing Africa's Private Clinics, One Loan At a Time

Across Nigeria, many privately-owned healthcare facilities face funding bottleneck. Pharmacies watch their shelves empty as they struggle to restock essential drugs. Laboratories,… Read more »

Nigeria: Black Market for Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food Is Putting Nigerian Children At Risk

The shortage of life-saving Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) in health facilities across the northern part of Nigeria, where they are meant to be provided free of charge to… Read more »

Nigeria: No Beds, No Care, Until Communities Demanded Better in Kano Municipal Council

Imagine arriving at a health centre in labour, only to hear the words: "No beds available." For many women in Kano Municipal Council (KMC) of Kano State, this nightmare is not a… Read more »

Africa: Enhancing Lassa Fever Medical Countermeasures in West Africa

Lassa fever remains one of the most pressing public health threats in West Africa. According to the Africa CDC, the viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) infects between 100,000 and… Read more »

Nigeria: Integrate Project Boosts Community Access to Family Planning Services in Kano

For more than five years, Dauda Musa has run a patent medicine shop in Rano Local Government Area (LGA), Kano. In 2023, after receiving formal training through the IntegratE… Read more »

Nigeria: From Palace to People - Traditional Leaders Drive Family Planning in Kano State

In the Rano Emirate of Kano State, the phrase 'family planning' is still being fought against, as it is seen as an imposition of western ideologies on the conservative community.… Read more »

Nigeria: Curbing Nigeria's Malnutrition Crisis Through Strengthened Food Fortification Channels

Nigeria's malnutrition crisis has left approximately 32% of children under five stunted, highlighting an ongoing public health crisis and a need to strengthen food fortification. Read more »

Nigeria: Standing At the Hourglass - Reflections On Nigeria's National Health Financing Dialogue 2025

There are rare moments in an academic's life when the steady accumulation of theory and evidence unfolds into real national reforms. After years of studying how financing shapes… Read more »

Nigeria: Dorawar Na'abba PHC Partially Operates Without Drugs, Water or Toilets

Sickness is not the only battle patients face at Dorawar Na'abba Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Dawakin Kudu Local Government Area (LGA) of Kano State. Pregnant women wait for… Read more »

Nigeria: From Clinics to Communities, Health Workers Can Defeat the Silent Pandemic of Amr

Chibuike Alagboso and Chinwendu Tabitha Iroegbu (Lead writers) Read more »

Nigeria: Telemedicine Is Advancing Quality Care and Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria

Universal Health Coverage (UHC) hinges on the fundamental principle that individuals should be able to access the full range of "quality" healthcare, without suffering financial… Read more »

Nigeria: Poor Quality Maternal Medicines - a Silent Threat to Childbirth in Nigeria

Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), prolonged bleeding after childbirth, remains the leading cause of maternal mortality, accounting for 23% of maternal deaths. In 2023, the World Health… Read more »

West Africa: West Africa Unite in Abidjan to Fast-Track Lassa Fever Vaccine and Strengthen Epidemic Preparedness

The 2nd ECOWAS Lassa Fever International Conference (#ELFIC 2025) concluded this Thursday 11 September 2025 in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, after four days of high-level… Read more »

Nigeria: West African Health Ministers Unite for Lassa Fever Vaccine Readiness - a Historic Step for Regional Health Security

The ECOWAS Lassa International Conference builds on the first convening held in Abuja in 2019, when the country came together to mark fifty years since the discovery of Lassa… Read more »

Nigeria: In Unguwan Jatau, Mothers Reach the Clinic Only to Face New Struggles

For expectant mothers in Unguwan Jatau, the struggle is not about reaching the clinic but about what awaits them when they arrive. "Look at this hospital, but it's of no use to… Read more »

Nigeria: West African Leaders Commit to Advance Lassa Fever Vaccine for the Region

In an historic moment for regional solidarity and leadership, West African Ministers of Health today pledged their joint commitment to advance the development of, and readiness… Read more »