Nigeria: Six states get $6.2m to fight child mortality

Nigeria HNN Team

The intervention was a demonstration of government and development partners’ commitment to scale up access to life-saving commodities that are necessary “to accelerate reductions in maternal, neonatal and child mortality and morbidity”.

JSI’s TSHIP project continues groundbreaking CHX and misoprostol work in Nigeria

Nigeria HNN Team

On December 5, 2013, the governor of Nigeria’s Bauchi State, Isa Yuguda, personally launched the state’s first misoprostol and chlorhexidine (CHX) program.

Nigeria: When Ulamas Resolved to Halt Infant Mortality in the North West

Nigeria HNN Team

The motives behind the newly adopted strategy were discussed at a media dissemination event on research from the ‘Saving Lives at Birth’ programme for religious leaders held in Kano,

African Countries Make New Investments in Health

Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Kenya HNN Team

This year, as UNAIDS reported, low and middle income countries are for the first time providing more funding themselves for HIV than they are getting from external sources.

Group asks Nigerian government to honour its health commitment

Nigeria HNN Team

AMHiN is a national coalition of Civil Society Organizations, Media and Professional Bodies committed to promoting accountability and transparency in the health sector.

Differing Levels of Progress Make Idea of ‘AIDS in Africa’ Obsolete

Nigeria, Cameroon, Ghana, Malawi, Togo, Zambia HNN Team

Progress in the battle against AIDS is widely divergent in different African countries, so much so that to talk about “AIDS in Africa” as one epidemic needing a single approach has become an anachronism, campaigners said on Tuesday.

Kangaroo mother care saved my premature twins – Mother

Nigeria HNN Team

The Country Director for Evidence for Action, Tunde Segun, stated that success stories must be told as evidence that, in the right condition and with appropriate care, premature babies could survive.

Nigeria: Experts seek technical solution to maternal, child mortality

Nigeria HNN Team

Experts have called for the need to leverage technology to reduce neonatal and maternal death rate in the country.

Nigeria: Child Profile

Nigeria HNN Team

The government has established a newborn health desk within the Federal Ministry of Health and has introduced a subsidy re-investment empowerment fund to administer maternal, newborn and child health funds.

Nigeria: Ensuring Women, Babies Survive Before and After Delivery

Nigeria HNN Team

With about 71,000 community health extension workers registered in 2012, their number is only a third the population of nurses and midwives, but the gaps they stop is becoming more critical.?