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Flushed Promises: How Nigeria’s Sanitation Emergency Keeps Fueling a Preventable Health Crisis Community water point in rural Nigeria highlighting WASH challenges”

Community water point in rural Nigeria highlighting WASH challenges”

Flushed Promises: How Nigeria’s Sanitation Emergency Keeps Fueling a Preventable Health Crisis

Chukwu Obinna February 6, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – When Nigeria declared a state of emergency in water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in...

Nigerian Expert Urges Africa to Rethink Autism Understanding Boluwatife Ayanwole speaking on autism inclusion at conference

Nigerian Expert Urges Africa to Rethink Autism Understanding

Mirian Gom January 16, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigerian autism expert and neurodiversity advocate Boluwatife Ayanwole calls for a major cultural shift...

Experts Push for Stronger Implementation Research to Improve African Health Systems Health experts at Abuja meeting calling for increased AMR surveillance funding

Health experts at Abuja meeting calling for increased AMR surveillance funding

Experts Push for Stronger Implementation Research to Improve African Health Systems

Oluwafunbi Bello December 12, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Health professionals have called for strengthened implementation research across African health systems to address...

Nigeria’s Cholesterol Crisis: The Young Lives Lost Before the Warning Signs Young Nigerian adults exercising as cardiologists warn about rising cholesterol-related heart disease

Young Nigerian adults exercising as cardiologists warn about rising cholesterol-related heart disease

Nigeria’s Cholesterol Crisis: The Young Lives Lost Before the Warning Signs

Oluwatobi Adu December 7, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – On a humid Lagos morning, the news spread quickly through a neighbourhood gym: a...

Africa, WHO Launch New Framework to Prevent Sexual Misconduct WHO scientist examines mosquito samples amid chikungunya outbreak

Africa, WHO Launch New Framework to Prevent Sexual Misconduct

Oluwatobi Adu November 29, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – The World Health Organisation (WHO) and 42 African Member States have unveiled a new...

Africa CDC Warns of Rising Outbreak Risks, Calls for Stronger Community Surveillance Africa CDC, Public Health, Ebola, Mpox, Cholera, Outbreak Response, Vaccination, Community Surveillance, Africa Health, WASH

Africa CDC, Public Health, Ebola, Mpox, Cholera, Outbreak Response, Vaccination, Community Surveillance, Africa Health, WASH

Africa CDC Warns of Rising Outbreak Risks, Calls for Stronger Community Surveillance

Oluwatobi Adu October 31, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has urged African governments...

Dying Too Soon: Why Nigerians Struggle to Live Beyond 54 Years A Nigerian nurse attends to a patient in a rural clinic, symbolising the country’s fragile healthcare system.

A Nigerian nurse attends to a patient in a rural clinic, symbolising the country’s fragile healthcare system.

Dying Too Soon: Why Nigerians Struggle to Live Beyond 54 Years

Korede Abdullah October 26, 2025

ABUJA, NIGERIA — In the heart of Africa’s most populous nation, a quiet emergency is unfolding —...

WHO Rallies Africa to Eradicate Polio Through Renewed Action WHO scientist examines mosquito samples amid chikungunya outbreak

WHO Rallies Africa to Eradicate Polio Through Renewed Action

Oluwatobi Adu October 23, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – The World Health Organisation (WHO) is urging African nations to intensify the fight against...

2025 World Sight Day: WHO Warns Only 26% of Africans Access Cataract Surgery WHO eye health experts examining patients during World Sight Day 2025 in Abuja

WHO eye health experts examining patients during World Sight Day 2025 in Abuja

2025 World Sight Day: WHO Warns Only 26% of Africans Access Cataract Surgery

Juliet Jacob October 8, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria — The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on African governments to prioritise investment in...

Africa Told to Take Charge in Malaria Eradication Drive Coordinating Minister of Health, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate

Africa Told to Take Charge in Malaria Eradication Drive

Korede Abdullah September 12, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Africa must take full ownership of the malaria fight to meet the 2030 elimination...

Africa Health

Flushed Promises: How Nigeria’s Sanitation Emergency Keeps Fueling a Preventable Health Crisis

Nigerian Expert Urges Africa to Rethink Autism Understanding

Experts Push for Stronger Implementation Research to Improve African Health Systems

Nigeria’s Cholesterol Crisis: The Young Lives Lost Before the Warning Signs

Africa, WHO Launch New Framework to Prevent Sexual Misconduct

Africa CDC Warns of Rising Outbreak Risks, Calls for Stronger Community Surveillance

Dying Too Soon: Why Nigerians Struggle to Live Beyond 54 Years

WHO Rallies Africa to Eradicate Polio Through Renewed Action

2025 World Sight Day: WHO Warns Only 26% of Africans Access Cataract Surgery

Africa Told to Take Charge in Malaria Eradication Drive

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