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How Community Trust Is Improving Girls’ Sexual and Reproductive Health Education in Abuja Schools
Hadiza Mohammed and Onyedikachi Ewe (Lead writers) Success, 13, did not panic when she got her first period. ‘I was educated early,’ she recalled, ‘I simply used a sanitary pad…
Nigeria to Host the 2026 Inherited Blood Disorders Leadership Forum in Abuja
Abuja, Nigeria — 11 February 2026 — The Nigeria Society for Haematology and Blood Transfusion, in collaboration with the National Blood Service Agency and in partnership with the Novo Nordisk…
Private Sector Financing is Key to Improved Maternal Care in Nigeria
Maureen Moneke and Adanna Opara (Lead writers) Nigeria’s maternal mortality burden remains unacceptably high and points to persistent gaps in access to timely, quality maternity care. Despite financing reforms such…
How FOR M(om) is Pushing for Safer Medical Waste Management in Kano Hospitals
Mahdi Garba (Lead writer) Ogwuche Thomas works as a facility manager at EHA Clinic, a private health clinic in Kano State. His job entails managing healthcare waste and keeping the…
Beyond Out-of-Pocket: A Hospital-Linked Fund is Helping Nigerians with Chronic Illness Access Care
Tzar Oluigbo (Lead writer) When Dorothy (not her real name) arrived at work that morning, she was already in pain. The public-school teacher lives with sickle cell disease, a chronic…
A Solar Power Project is Keeping Primary Healthcare Centres Running in Abuja
Mahdi Garba and Chinwendu Tabitha Iroegbu (Lead writers) For more than six years, Olufunke Bamidele and her family have used the Primary Health Care (PHC) Centre, in Lugbe, a community…
HeliumCredit is Financing Africa’s Private Clinics, One Loan at a Time
Tzar Oluigbo (Lead writer) Across Nigeria, many privately-owned healthcare facilities face funding bottleneck. Pharmacies watch their shelves empty as they struggle to restock essential drugs. Laboratories, unable to afford new…
Lights Out, Lives Lost: The Human Cost of Hospital Blackouts on Maternal Health
Sunday Oko and Mahdi Garba (Lead writers)“Thirty minutes into my wife’s C-section, NEPA [a colloquial term for electricity distribution companies] interrupted [the hospital’s] electricity,” recalled Shehu Danjuma Umar, in a…
When Survival is not Enough: Malnutrition in Abuja’s Wassa Displacement Camp
Chinwendu Tabitha Iroegbu and Prudence Enema (Lead writers) What happens when fleeing from conflict leads straight into the arms of hunger? Reyan Safianu, 45, is struggling to make ends meet…
Nigeria Set to Host Global Interministerial Conference on AMR: Time to Mobilise the Private Sector
Emeka Oguanuo and Christopher Bassey (Lead writers) Nigeria will make history as the first African country to host the Global Interministerial Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), scheduled for June 29–30,…