AHR’s Top 10 Health & Development Stories, 20 – 26 July 2026
✍️ Editor’s Note This week’s roundup captures the major health and development issues that shaped conversations in Nigeria and across Africa. From Nigeria’s maternal…
Topic
Birth Defects
Experts Push Mandatory Food Fortification to Prevent Birth Defects
LAGOS, Nigeria – Nutrition experts are urging the Federal Government to make food fortification mandatory, warning that nearly 11,000 Nigerian babies are born each…
WHO Pushes Wider Newborn Screening
ABUJA, Nigeria – The World Health Organization has called on countries to urgently expand newborn screening programmes, warning that millions of babies continue to…