Category: Explainers
Could Nigeria’s New Postcode System Fix Ambulance Response Times?
Nigeria launched its National Digital Alphanumeric Postcode System on October 1, assigning GIS-based codes to individual buildings. The government has flagged healthcare,…
She Runs a ₦300 Million Pharmacy. The Bank Offered Her ₦2.2 Million.
Crux Pharmacy does over ₦300 million a year in transactions, yet its owner recently qualified for a ₦2.2 million loan. Kayla Igwuoku's…
Nigeria Signed a $5 Billion Health Deal With the US. Nobody’s Seen the Fine Print.
Atiku Abubakar is demanding the Tinubu government publish its full health MOU with the United States, after Ghana rejected a comparable deal…
Africa Backed a Global Pandemic Pledge. Washington Just Blocked It.
African countries led the charge for a UN pandemic preparedness declaration built on real equity for pathogen sharing. The United States refused…
Digitisation Doesn’t Automatically Equal Transformation”: A HealthTech Builder on Why African Pilots Keep Failing to Scale
Dr. Agbor Ashu, MD, MSc in Health Informatics, built GiftedMom, an SMS and voice health platform that reached over 600,000 women, before…
What Nigeria’s Health Sector Should Watch at This Week’s UN General Assembly
World leaders open the UN General Assembly's High-Level Week today, with pandemic preparedness, sickle cell care, and AIDS medicine production all up…
He Got TB From the Gold Dust. He Went Back to the Mine Anyway.
South Africa's informal gold miners describe TB, silicosis, mercury burns, and chemical exposure as routine costs of work at unregulated mine dumps,…
Africa Just Found Out It’s the Best in the World at Counting Its Own Health Workers. It Still Doesn’t Have Enough of Them.
WHO and Africa CDC jointly convened health workforce experts from 37 African countries to review progress on national workforce data, revealing the…
She’s 3D-Printing Prosthetics So African Patients Don’t Have to Wait for Ones Made Overseas
Nneile Nkholise's iMed Tech designs and manufactures custom prosthetics, bio-implants, and surgical planning tools locally in South Africa, addressing the delay and…
Chinese Counterfeiters Used to Ship Fake Products Into Nigeria. Now They’re Manufacturing Them Here.
NAFDAC has warned that Chinese counterfeiters are now establishing manufacturing plants inside Nigeria rather than importing fake products, complicating the same product-trust…