Nourishing the future: How UNICEF is providing nutrition care in Sokoto State
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According to the 2018 National Nutrition and Health Survey, Sokoto State is one of the four states with the highest prevalence of…
Taking ownership: Women in Jigawa community fund emergency transportation for pregnant women
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“My husband and I have always known that I would deliver at the hospital,” says Azeema Hussaini, 25, while sitting on a…
World Sight Day 2020: Shell, JV partners come together to give #HopeInSight
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By Beti Baiye and Dara Ajala-Damisa (Lead Writers) The trip from Yenagoa was short and uneventful. We arrived the community town hall…
AVADAR: How digital health fast-tracked Nigeria's drive to eradicate polio
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Polio, a contagious disease caused by the poliomyelitis virus is transmitted primarily when stool from someone infected contaminates foods, drinks or water…
ACEGID in Ede: Science Capacity evolving in Nigeria from an unusual Location
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When will the COVID-19 pandemic be over? Will life return to how it was before COVID-19 disrupted it? These questions probably run…
How active community case search transformed testing in Kano State
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For several weeks, sixty-year-old Musa Danyadikko had been grappling with a strange fever and cough that had defied all known treatment. One…
Mining HEFA: How Kaduna's facility census data can be used to improve health care delivery
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Data is one of the most important drivers of development, from conceptualisation of interventions to design and implementation. It is what largely…
How virtual training shaped COVID-19 reporting in Nigeria
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As COVID-19 hit Nigeria, concerns grew for many journalists as to how they were to report on the pandemic which affected every…
Health workers who deliver: LUTH's resolve to help COVID-19 positive mothers give birth safely
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By Adaobi Ezeokoli & Chibuike Alagboso (Lead Writers) Professor Chris Bode, Chief Medical Director at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), is…
In Safe Hands: First complex heart surgery at Reddington Hospital a huge success despite COVID-19
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By Chibuike Alagboso and Adaobi Ezeokoli (Lead Writers) When Oluwaytoyin Adebiyi, a 66-year old elderly resident of Ejigbo in Lagos State woke…