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Health and Science - Partnership To Scale Up Malaria Treatment Measures Given the theme for this year’s World Malaria Day - “Sustain Gains, Save Lives: Invest in Malaria" - it is worth pausing to reflect on the need for integrated partnerships that are uniting efforts and amplifying resources to scale-up malaria prevention and treatment measures.
How Community Ownership Revives Healthcare In Nara Public healthcare centres in most rural areas of the country exist only in theory. There are few dilapidated structures manned by one or two disinterested health workers, who also attend to the community that has since developed greater confidence in native doctors, local chemists and Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs), than in the obsolete health centres.
Yakowa Launches Emergency Transport Scheme As part of efforts to strengthen health systems, the wife of the Kaduna State governor, Mrs. Amina Ibrahim Yakowa recently flagged off the Emergency Transport Scheme (ETS) in the State.
Mike Egboh and Garba Safiyanu: Scaling down the cost of malaria treatment in Nigeria Malaria is a deadly disease which kills at least 300,000 Nigerian children every year. The contribution of Malaria to the high mortality rate amongst children is of grave global concern.

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International Women's Day 2012 - Improving Women's Access to Skilled Birth Attendants in Rural Nigeria

On International Women's Day, it is worth pausing to reflect that for hundreds of thousands of women and girls worldwide even in the 21st century, pregnancy and childbirth is still fraught with danger. Access to skilled birth attendance during delivery is...

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National Human Resources for Health Forum

Solutions to HRH issues and challenges are multidimensional and many inputs are outside the control of ministries of health. This is the case for salaries, education programmes, working conditions and housing for health workers, which fall under the portfolios...

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First ever Presidential Summit on Health

Advocacy documentary leads to the first ever Presidential Summit on Health. The late President Umaru Musa YarAdua convened the first ever Presidential Summit on Health immediately after viewing ‘State of Health in Nigeria’, a 15-minute advocacy documentary...

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