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In Nigeria, health workers learn how to help women facing gender-based violence

In Nigeria, health workers learn how to help women facing gender-based violence

Like many health workers across the Sahel, Mairama Baba Yadafa has…

Dr Chieshi

Living with schizophrenia -An individual’s story

Abuja, 11 October, 2022 - Dr Chieshi was diagnosed with schizophrenia…

The delegate at ACEGID.

Nigeria expands genomic sequencing intervention beyond COVID-19

Osun, 11 October, 2022 - Given that genomic sequencing technology…

A mental health care worker with a patient.

In Nigeria, health workers learn how to help women facing gender-based violence

Borno, 7 Ocotber, 2022 – Like many health workers across the Sahel,…

Hajara a caregiver, administering malaria drug to her eligible child

Mothers adopt Seasonal Malaria chemoprevention drugs to keep malaria at bay in Adamawa State

Yola, 30 September, 2022 - Sitting on a wooden stool in front of her…

Saratu, a member of the Mobile health team providing essential health service in a nomadic setting in Yobe state.

WHO delivers critical health services to meet basic humanitarian needs of 1 million people

Yola, 30 September, 2022 - In line with the target of improving the…

A pharmacist storing drugs

Medicines can heal, but they can also harm

Abuja, 19 September, 2022 - In December 2017, Oluwatayo Akingbile,…

Mrs. Mercy Ameh checking the blood pressure of a pregnant woman in hard-to-reach area

Female health workers defy the odds, reach vulnerable populations with services

Abuja, 2 August, 2022 - Mrs Mercy Ameh is a passionate nurse who…

Mr Odido John receiving his first COVID-19 shot

Nigeria reaches vulnerable population with client-centred strategies for control of TB and COVID-19

Abuja, 26 August, 2022 - On a recent weekday, when 25-year-old John…

A health worker checking a patient’s blood pressure

States replicate successful low-cost hypertension solution model in over 80 PHC centres

Abuja, 26 August, 2022 - When 38-year-old man Mr Hassan Olusoji,…