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Aug 16
Review of 2015 PMTCT Data in the FCT
Regular analysis of PMTCT data revealed consistent errors in data reporting, mainly in the number of pregnant women counselled, tested, and received results (CTRR) and new, positive pregnant women who […]
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Aug 16
Reflecting on Nigeria’s Approach to Addressing Malnutrition
According to the WHO, 45% of child deaths are linked to malnutrition[1]. Every year in Nigeria, malnutrition claims the lives of about one million children under five years of age. […]
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Aug 15
Scaling Up Malaria Control in Nigeria: Challenges and Opportunities
Nigeria is strategically important to global malaria control efforts. An estimated 97% of the country’s 176 million population is still at risk of malaria. Nigeria also accounts for 11% of […]
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Aug 14
Reducing Maternal and Newborn Deaths Using Quality Improvement Methodologies: The Nigeria Healthcare Quality Improvement Project
Nigeria has a mixed health system with different archetypes in various states in the country. Quality of care remains variable in both public and private facilities. And while increased investments […]
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Aug 14
Spending to Save: Challenges and Opportunities for Financing Nigeria’s Saving One Million Lives Initiative
The Saving One Million Lives (SOML) initiative is a bold effort to improve child and maternal health in Nigeria through investment in six highly cost-effective areas or pillars: essential medicines, […]
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Aug 14
Strengthening Public Health Reporting from Private Facilities: The Case for Investing in Electronic Health Records
Stakeholders in programs that seek to harness the capacity of private providers for the delivery of priority health services in Nigeria will likely find that unreliable reporting of service-utilization data […]