AfricaDiasporaEventsNigeriaThought LeadershipProfessor Eyitayo Lambo’s ‘Tour de Force’ and Call to Action By f5shc December 22, 2015 5 Mins read On December 9th 2015, we gathered in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, for the first Public Service Lecture of the Nigerian Primary Health… Read more
AfricaEventsNigeriaThought LeadershipVisits to Health ProjectsAn assignment of Hope: An insight into living with disabilities in Nigeria By f5shc December 15, 2015 4 Mins read By Ebele Vivien Okoli Editor: The 3rd of December was World Disability Day. Ebele Vivien Okoli, a Resident Doctor specialising in Community… Read more
AfricaDiasporaEventsNigeriaThought LeadershipTime to engage with mental health care in Nigeria By f5shc December 5, 2015 4 Mins read Enyi Anosike is a Public Mental Health professional, and a trustee of the Public Health Foundation of Nigeria. He writes this special… Read more
AfricaDiasporaEventsNigeriaThought LeadershipHIV elimination goals and the reality of living with HIV in Nigeria By f5shc December 1, 2015 4 Mins read Today is World AIDS day 2015. All over the media in Nigeria, there have been reports on the new goal of the… Read more
Thought LeadershipAdewole stands 'On the Shoulders of Giants': The 18 torchbearers of the Nigerian Health Sector By f5shc November 24, 2015 8 Mins read Editor: In this piece, Andrew F. Alalade, a Neurosurgeon and current Public Relations Officer of the Medical Association of Nigerians across Great… Read more
AfricaNigeriaThought LeadershipBalancing access and excess in the fight against antibiotic resistance in Nigeria By f5shc November 17, 2015 3 Mins read Resistance to antibiotics is a growing global problem. It is particularly acute in Nigeria because of our extensive and often inappropriate use… Read more
AfricaDiasporaEventsNigeriaThought LeadershipBefore the SDGs, how did Nigeria really do with the MDGs? By f5shc November 10, 2015 4 Mins read In August 2015, reports emerged in the Nigerian press that “Nigeria had attained the Millennium Development Goals”. The article below quoted the… Read more
AfricaNigeriaThought LeadershipTime for a comprehensive strategy on stroke service delivery in Nigeria By f5shc October 27, 2015 6 Mins read Editor’s Note: On October 29 the World will mark Stroke Day. Strokes are one of the highest causes of death in Sub-Saharan… Read more
AfricaDiasporaEventsNigeriaThought LeadershipOne year later, 5 most important lessons from the Nigerian Ebola response By f5shc October 20, 2015 6 Mins read On October 20 2014, almost exactly one year ago, the World Health Organisation declared Nigeria Ebola free, 42 days after the last… Read more
AfricaDiasporaEventsNigeriaThought LeadershipVisits to Health ProjectsHealth Watch Forum opens with a celebration of Nigerian heroes By f5shc October 13, 2015 4 Mins read In September 2014, the Ebola outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone was getting worse by the day. Nigeria had managed to… Read more