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 »

Nigeria: A Simple Two-Block Toilet Is Transforming Sanitation in a Kogi Community

For Halima Shuaibu, a petty trader whose small stall of vegetables and household items is the sole lifeline for her four children, life is a constant battle for survival, made… Read more »

Nigeria: Building Business Resilience Against Mpox and Other Infectious Disease Outbreaks - Insights From International SoS

Mpox has been devastating communities in West and Central Africa, howewer in 2024, four previously unaffected countries, Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda reported their first… Read more »

Nigeria: Shared Responsibility - Rethinking Men's Role in Nigeria's Reproductive Health Agenda

Global efforts to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 continue. Goal 5, gender equality, is widely recognised as central to sustainable… Read more »

Nigeria: From Neglect to Renewal - Yan Dadi PHC Revitalised, but More Staff Needed

Seven months ago when Nigeria Health Watch visited Yan Dadi Primary Health Centre, it stood as a symbol of neglect with unsafe wards, no clean water, and women giving birth in the… Read more »

Nigeria: Lassa Fever Clinical Trials Strengthening Nigeria's Health Sovereignty

Nigeria continues to bear a high burden of infectious diseases, including Lassa fever, malaria, and tuberculosis. However, clinical trials capacity for therapeutics and vaccines in… Read more »

Nigeria: Health Behind Bars - How Kano Is Extending Health Insurance Coverage to Inmates

Kabiru Tanko (not his real name) was among the inmates moved from the dilapidated Kurmawa Custodial Centre to the newly built Maximum Security Custodial Centre in Janguza, Kano, in… Read more »

Nigeria: Pregnant Women Struggle At Mahuta Health Clinic in Kaduna State

For many pregnant women in Mahuta community in Kaduna State, accessing healthcare is a daily nightmare. With just one overstretched health clinic serving more than 20,000 people,… Read more »

Nigeria: Encouraging Results From a First-in-Human Phase 1 Clinical Trial of IAVI's Lassa Vaccine Candidate Published in New England Journal of Medicine

One dose elicits robust and long-lasting immune responses in healthy adults in the U.S. and Liberia Read more »

Nigeria: Strengthening Nigeria's Primary Health System With Lessons From Ethiopia

On 22 October 2025, Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare approved and released 32.9 billion Naira under the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF), the third… Read more »

Nigeria: Within the Lines - Komfot Health Provides Life-Saving Post-Abortion Care Amid Nigeria's Unclear Laws

When Cecilia Ahmadu began bleeding heavily, three days after performing a self-induced abortion, she knew something had gone wrong. "I was using more than three pads [daily] a few… Read more »

Nigeria: Maternal Deaths in Nigeria - When Systemic Neglect Meets Medical Complications

When my wife went into labour at night in June 2025, I was fortunate to be there to support her. As the hours passed, I watched her endure the excruciating pain of labour… Read more »