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Towards improved Child Birth Spacing Services in Kano
As part of the civil society’s support to the Kano State Government on improving Child Birth Spacing (CBS) services and commodities, the Kano State-Led Accountability Mechanism (KanSLAM), recently hosted a three-day workshop for the development of the 2021 Kano State Costed CBS Work Plan. The activity was supported by the Women’s Integrated Services…
Read More »Raising political profile of Human Capital Development in the media
As part of efforts towards achieving the overall goal of raising the political profile of Health Entitlements (HE) and Human Capital Development (HCD) in Nigeria, the Kano State-Led Accountability Mechanism (KanSLAM), with support of the UK government-funded Lafiya programme, this week, trained select Kano journalists on infusing HE and HCD…
Read More »OP-ED: | Nigeria’s memory loss challenge: The burden and way forward, By Isyaku Yarube
Are you becoming more forgetful? Do you often get confused as to whether or not you have locked the front door of your house? Do you often forget where you kept your car keys or often miss your scheduled appointments? If you are above forty-five years old and your answer…
Read More »KanSLAM: Fostering accountability in Kano’s MNCH, Covid-19 spending
Accountability is an integral part of democratic governance; it is necessary for improving service delivery and ensuring access to quality life for the citizens Consequently, the work of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and the media are seen to be crucial in ensuring policymakers remain accountable to the…
Read More »X-Raying funding gaps in Nigeria’s epidemic preparedness
Funding epidemic preparedness and response (EPR) is indeed a multifaceted affair; it requires the funding of a wide-range of interdependent structures and systems, from surveillance infrastructure to sample collection system and testing laboratories. Without sufficient financial investment by governments at federal, state and local government levels, it is…
Read More »INDEPTH |NCDC: The triumphs and travails of Nigeria’s premier public health institute
Established in 2011, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) is mandated to enhance the country’s “preparedness and response to epidemics through prevention, detection and control of communicable and non-communicable diseases.” Until November 2018 when President Muhammadu Buhari assented to a bill for an act establishing the Nigeria…
Read More »PROFILE | Isyaku Yarube: The Moscow-trained medical physiologist researching on memory loss
Isyaku Yarube, the forty-eight-year-old Moscow-trained medical physiologist and academic is on a mission to find “what goes wrong when someone loses their memory (dementia), whether as a result of aging or due to one disease or another.” In 1990, while still a teenager, young Yarube left his native Tofa…
Read More »SuNMaP2 inaugurates malaria tracking group in Kano
Over the years, funds meant to combat malaria in Nigeria have not yield the desired results as the country still accounts for 25% of global malaria burden, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). In trying to change the current malaria narrative in Kano state, representatives of Civil Society Organizations…
Read More »INVESTIGATION | How COVID-19 palliatives got diverted
The COVID-19 palliatives distribution regimes in Kano and Jigawa states have left in their wake a litany of complaints and allegations of diversions against politicians, traditional rulers and even proprietors of Almajiri schools The sandy, erosion-ridden path leading to Fatsuma Yusuf’s home on the edge of Jaudi village…
Read More »ANALYSIS: X-Raying Kano’s implementation of PHC Under One Roof policy
Kano has made significant progress in the implementation of the PHC Under One Roof (PHCUOR) policy, however an “administratively autonomous and self-accounting Governing Board” is yet to be constituted for the State PHC Board; funding for PHCs is still domiciled at the State Ministry for Local Government while the respective…
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Nigeria Health Watch’s Dialogue Push for Closing Reproductive Health Access in Nigeria
Nigeria Health Watch’s national policy dialogue, themed “Closing Reproductive Health Impact Gaps – Strategic …
