Nigeria: Partnership for Health - a conference on health in Nigeria.
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by Ike Anya (This post was first published on BMJ blogs) A major milestone passed in October this year, when Nigerians marked 50…
Polio in Nigeria - An emerging success story
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Vaccinations are celebrated as one of the miracles of modern medicine. In the past 50 years, it has saved more lives worldwide…
Twitter and Nigeria Health Watch
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Long before we started blogging, we would copy and paste the few stories on health from the Nigerian press on emails, and…
Cry my beloved Nigeria
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I cannot forget reading the epic “Cry the beloved country” in my early teens, and the impact it had on my life….
What Jonathan said about Health in his speech
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Picture courtesy of 234Next On Saturday, 11 September, Nigerian President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ), who came into the office of the presidency…
The kidnapping of doctors and why it matters
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That kidnapping is said to have become one of the biggest industries in Imo and Abia States is no longer news. An analysis…
Nigeria at 50 - a cholera outbreak and an unperturbed elite
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While in medical school in Nigeria, I learnt a bit about cholera …that it is an infection caused by the bacterium Vibrio…
Nigeria Health Watch on Twitter: aggregating health stories out of Nigeria
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Those of you that read Nigeria Health Watch regularly, will know that we routinely collect interesting health news stories in the Nigerian press, and…
Conference announcement - Nigeria: Partnership for Health II
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Since the very successful first Nigeria: Partnership for Health Conference in 2008, we have received several enquiries about when the next conference…
Shell, FHI and NACA collaborate on HIV/AIDS in the Niger Delta
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One great thing about going for conferences is the fascinating people you meet. One such person I met at the last International…