Category: Explainers
Africa Is Polio-Free. This Week It Admitted the Infrastructure That Got It There Might Not Survive Success.
African health ministers adopted a 10-year framework to preserve the surveillance systems, labs, and workforce built through polio eradication, infrastructure that's already…
Nigerian Hospitals Are Running Neonatal Incubators on Diesel. The Government Just Admitted It’s a Crisis.
Nigeria's Health Ministry says up to 70% of health facilities face power outages or have no electricity, forcing teaching hospitals to spend…
Canada Just Named Nigeria in Its Newest Recruitment Drive. Days Earlier, Africa Admitted It Has 1 Million Unemployed Health Workers.
Canada's immigration department publicly listed nurse practitioners, dentists, pharmacists, psychologists, and social workers as priority recruits from Nigeria and other countries. It…
Africa Just Committed to 3 Million More Health Workers. It Already Has 1 Million Sitting Unemployed.
African health ministers formally adopted a plan to train and retain 3 million more health workers by 2035. Buried in the same…
Nigerian Lawmaker: “The Cheapest Patient Is the One Whose Condition Was Prevented”
A House Committee chairman told public health professionals that prevention, not treatment, is Nigeria’s cheapest path to better health outcomes, at a…
47 African Health Ministers Just Sat Down in Addis Ababa. Nearly Everything We’ve Covered This Week Is on Their Table.
Health ministers from all 47 WHO African Region member states opened three days of deliberations in Addis Ababa today, covering emergency medical…
Should Nigeria Force Every Bouillon Cube to Fight Anaemia? Nutritionists Are Split.
Nigeria is weighing whether to make bouillon cube fortification mandatory to fight anaemia and neural tube defects. A food scientist is publicly…
Nigeria Just Got a Lab That Can Test for 100 Diseases From One Drop of Blood
NCDC and the US CDC have been quietly building Nigeria's capacity to test for up to 100 diseases from a single blood…
Breast Cancer Rates in Nigerian Women Have Nearly Tripled Since 2010, According to a Top Cancer Researcher
A leading Nigerian-American oncologist says breast cancer incidence among Nigerian women rose from 54.3 to 133.3 per 100,000 between 2010 and 2022.…
Surveillance Is the Key, Not Clinical Practice”: Dr. Steve C. Eke on Nigeria’s Epidemic Preparedness Gap
From the CDC’s Ebola response effort to a shelved plan for a national ambulance and emergency response system in Abuja, Dr. Steve…