Category: Explainers
Nigerian Students Can Now Get Free Contraceptives Delivered Discreetly to Their Hostel
GoMed Nigeria, UNFPA, and the Lagos State Government have launched a digital self-care platform giving University of Lagos students free contraceptives and…
An Abuja Fertility Doctor’s Case Just Grew From 3 Charges to 12. Here’s What’s Actually Alleged.
The Federal Government has expanded its criminal case against Abuja fertility doctor John Abebe from 3 counts to 12, adding allegations of…
A Beaded Bracelet Is Helping Health Workers Find Pregnant Nomadic Women Before It’s Too Late
A Kenyan epidemiologist built a GPS tracker into culturally worn beaded bracelets so health workers could locate pregnant pastoralist women on the…
This Group Just Won the World’s Largest Humanitarian Prize for Solving Africa’s “Last Mile” Problem. Nigeria Has the Same One.
Last Mile Health, an Accra-based organization supporting 20,000 community health workers across four African countries, has won the 2026 Hilton Humanitarian Prize.…
Nigeria Has Zero Liver Transplant Centers. That’s a Big Part of Why Liver Cancer Is Still a Death Sentence Here.
At a major African cancer research conference in Abuja, one detail stood out above the calls for more funding and research: Nigeria…
Africa CDC’s 2026 conference theme is “health sovereignty.” After this year’s outbreaks and financing fights, that’s not aspiration, it’s a diagnosis.
CPHIA 2026 has opened its call for abstracts and reviewers under the theme “Health Security and Sovereignty.” After a year covering outbreaks…
The US Just Moved Marijuana Off the Same Legal Shelf as Heroin. Here’s What Actually Changed.
The US has reclassified certain marijuana products from Schedule I to Schedule III, ending a 55-year-old classification. It’s not federal legalization, and…
Africa Is Finally Making Its Own Medicine. One Missing Test Could Undermine All of It.
Africa’s push to manufacture its own medicines is gaining real momentum. But without consistent testing to prove local generics work as well…
UNFPA Will Match Nigeria’s Spending on Maternal Health Medicine, Up to $4.5 Million. Here’s the Catch.
UNFPA has earmarked $4.5 million in matching funds to help Nigeria close its contraceptive and maternal health medicine funding gap, with Kwara…
Nigeria’s disease control agency is fighting a bill to create a second one just like it. Here’s the argument on both sides.
The NCDC has formally opposed a National Assembly bill to create a new public health institute, warning it would duplicate its own…