The weighty burden of NCDs in Nigeria: Time to Act
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Editor’s Note: This week’s Thought Leadership Piece comes from Dr. Mamsallah Faal-Omisore, a primary-health physician with qualifications in global health policy, infectious…
Will Nigeria’s STEPwise Survey change the narrative around NCDs?
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Editor’s Note: Ahead of the 3rd UN High-level meeting on non-communicable diseases holding on September 27th in New York, Staff Writer Chibuike Alagboso highlights the…
Strengthening Health Security through Field Epidemiology – Key messages from the 2018 NCDC/NFELTP Conference
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Since 2016, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) and the Nigeria Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Programme (NFELTP) have every year,…
Ageing but not infirm: Getting Geriatric care right in Nigeria
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Editor’s Note: This week’s Thought Leadership Piece comes from Nigeria Health Watch Editorial Assistant Beti Baiye. She explores the world of geriatric…
Patients’ Bill of Rights; Game Changer or Another Policy Paper?
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Beep… beep. Beep…beep…beep! Multiple text and WhatsApp notifications all from the same unfamiliar source. It is late, so I frown with more…
Wetin be Universal Health Coverage?
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In the push for global health reforms, no initiative has been as uniting as the call for Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Governments…
Crafting tailored training to improve healthcare leadership capacity: The LEAPS example
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“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” Jim John Continuous capacity development is integral in healthcare…
From Zero to Six: Can breastfeeding our babies accelerate Nigeria’s development? #WBWNG2018
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Every first week of August Nigeria joins the rest of the world to commemorate World Breastfeeding Week. Yet, if statistics are anything to go…
Face to face with Nigeria’s ailing emergency health system: One daughter’s story
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Editor’s Note: This week’s blog comes from a Nigeria Health Watch team member. She writes about coming head to head with the…
Gasping for Air: Doctor’s death exposes inherent risks of Nigerian public hospitals
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By Dr. Ifeanyi Nsofor and Patience Adejo (Lead Writers) Editor’s Note: On the 19th of June, 2018, headlines of Nigerian newspapers carried…