Health Meets Tech Application Challenge
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Are you a health worker or techie looking to improve Nigerian healthcare via technology? EpiAfric and Digital Health Nigeria invite you to…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 17 March 2017
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UNICEF Scales up Intervention in Malnutrition by 400% in North-east. FG disburses $500m maternal, child fund. Nigeria’s Centre for Disease Control to…
Nigeria Health Jobs Published on 16th March, 2017
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Health Journalist, Christian Aid/Nigeria Health Watch Journalism Masterclass, deadline 25th March, 2017. Details here Request for Expressions of Interest for a Consultant, Nigeria Health…
The silent thief of sight: Early detection can prevent blindness from Glaucoma
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Editor’s Note: Glaucoma is the leading cause of irreversible blindness in the world, with the highest number affected in Sub-Saharan Africa. This…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 10 March 2017
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FG explains plans to upgrade seven cancer centres across Nigeria. Eight years after raising billions, Turai Yar’Adua’s Cancer Centre remains abandoned, overtaken…
US Ambassador visits APIN-supported Centre at JUTH
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The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Ambassador W. Stuart Symington this week visited the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), to tour the…
“I banged on the hospital door at 1 a.m. with my daughter screaming in pain” – The difficulty of healthcare access in Nigeria
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Editor’s Note: This week’s Thought Leadership Piece recounts the harrowing experience of Nneoma Wokemba, a mother who found herself fighting to get…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 03 March 2017
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Hope dims for cancer patients as radiotherapy machines break down nationwide. How Twitter posts may have cost Nigeria’s former minister top position…
Nigeria Health Jobs Published on 1st March, 2017
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State Lead Consultant for Intensifying Adolescent HIV programming, NOC, UNICEF, Benue and Kaduna, deadline 5th March, 2017. Details here LGA Consultant for…
Zero Discrimination Day
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Abuja 1st March 2017– The world has struggled against the HIV and AIDS epidemic for the past three decades with substantial progress…