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Nigeria Launches Nationwide Drive to Detect Undiagnosed Bleeding Disorders Health workers conducting bleeding disorder screening in a community

Health workers conducting bleeding disorder screening in a community

Nigeria Launches Nationwide Drive to Detect Undiagnosed Bleeding Disorders

Mirian Gom February 5, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – The Haemophilia Foundation of Nigeria (HFN)on Thursday launches a nationwide initiative aimed at identifying...

Makinde Inducts Nearly 4,000 Health Workers to Strengthen Primary Care Newly recruited health workers at induction ceremony in Ibadan

Makinde Inducts Nearly 4,000 Health Workers to Strengthen Primary Care

Mirian Gom February 5, 2026

IBADAN, Nigeria – Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde inducts 3,933 newly recruited primary healthcare workers, marking one...

Nigeria Tightens Antimicrobial Surveillance as Poor Data Threatens Public Health Health experts at Abuja meeting calling for increased AMR surveillance funding

Health experts at Abuja meeting calling for increased AMR surveillance funding

Nigeria Tightens Antimicrobial Surveillance as Poor Data Threatens Public Health

Chukwu Obinna February 5, 2026

ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigerian health authorities are rolling out a national quality assurance framework to fix weaknesses...

Nigeria Begins First Immunotherapy Trial for Colorectal Cancer Patients Doctors at OAUTH launch Nigeria’s first immunotherapy cancer trial

Nigeria Begins First Immunotherapy Trial for Colorectal Cancer Patients

Chukwu Obinna February 4, 2026

OSUN, Nigeria – Nigeria launches its first immunotherapy clinical trial, offering free, cutting-edge treatment to colorectal cancer...

SFH Reaches 4.1m Children in Nationwide Malaria Drive SFH

SFH Reaches 4.1m Children in Nationwide Malaria Drive

Korede Abdullah February 2, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – The Society for Family Health (SFH) expands Nigeria’s malaria prevention efforts in 2025, reaching...

After the Sirens Fall Silent: Why Nigeria Cannot Afford to Blink on Mpox WHO officials addressing news briefing on global disease response

After the Sirens Fall Silent: Why Nigeria Cannot Afford to Blink on Mpox

Korede Abdullah February 2, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – When Africa’s public health leaders quietly lowered the emergency siren on mpox, it was...

Nasarawa Selects 13 Health Fellows to Strengthen Rural Primary Healthcare WHO scientist examines mosquito samples amid chikungunya outbreak

WHO scientist examines mosquito samples amid chikungunya outbreak

Nasarawa Selects 13 Health Fellows to Strengthen Rural Primary Healthcare

Oluwafunbi Bello January 13, 2026

NASARAWA, Nigeria – Nasarawa State selects 13 health fellows to strengthen primary healthcare delivery in rural communities,...

One Country, Many Clinics: How Nigeria’s Primary Healthcare System Leaves the Poor Behind Understaffed primary healthcare centre in rural Nigeria

Understaffed primary healthcare centre in rural Nigeria

One Country, Many Clinics: How Nigeria’s Primary Healthcare System Leaves the Poor Behind

Korede Abdullah January 12, 2026

LAGOS, Nigeria – At dawn in a rural Nigerian community, a pregnant woman begins a long walk...

Unvaccinated Children Dominate Nigeria’s Measles Cases – NCDC Nisa Premier Hospital Abuja where suspected viral fever case was tested

Unvaccinated Children Dominate Nigeria’s Measles Cases – NCDC

Oluwatobi Adu December 24, 2025

ABUJA, Nigeria – Nearly 15,000 of Nigeria’s 19,213 confirmed measles cases this year involve children who receive...

When the Clinic Cannot Heal: Elewura’s Struggle for Survival in Nigeria’s Failing PHC System “Mother waiting with child outside dilapidated Elewura PHC

“Mother waiting with child outside dilapidated Elewura PHC

When the Clinic Cannot Heal: Elewura’s Struggle for Survival in Nigeria’s Failing PHC System

Oluwatobi Adu November 28, 2025

Elewura, Oyo State – At dawn, the first light fell not on the bustle of a working...

Nigeria Health

Nigeria Launches Nationwide Drive to Detect Undiagnosed Bleeding Disorders

Makinde Inducts Nearly 4,000 Health Workers to Strengthen Primary Care

Nigeria Tightens Antimicrobial Surveillance as Poor Data Threatens Public Health

Nigeria Begins First Immunotherapy Trial for Colorectal Cancer Patients

SFH Reaches 4.1m Children in Nationwide Malaria Drive

After the Sirens Fall Silent: Why Nigeria Cannot Afford to Blink on Mpox

Nasarawa Selects 13 Health Fellows to Strengthen Rural Primary Healthcare

One Country, Many Clinics: How Nigeria’s Primary Healthcare System Leaves the Poor Behind

Unvaccinated Children Dominate Nigeria’s Measles Cases – NCDC

When the Clinic Cannot Heal: Elewura’s Struggle for Survival in Nigeria’s Failing PHC System

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