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Top Ten News Items on Health, 4 September 2020 

Vanguard, 4 September 2020
FG further relaxes COVID-19 restrictions
The Federal Government has relaxed emergency restrictions put in place in the wake of the outbreak of  COVID-19 pandemic as...
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Sun, 31 August 2020
NHIS set to accredit 100 Primary Health Centres in Kebbi
The National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) accreditation team, led by Dr. Okoh Christopher have started inspection processes of the...
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News Agency of Nigeria, 30 August 2020
President Buhari reiterates support for primary healthcare
 President Muhammadu Buhari promises to continue strengthening primary healthcare system and...
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This Day, 2 September 2020
Celebrating Nigerian health workers as unsung heroes against COVID-19
Contrary to popular belief that Nigeria’s COVID-19 burden would, 188 days after the first recorded case, lead to human and...
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The Cable, 03 September 2020
Sirika: COVID-19 tests must be done within three days to arrival in Nigeria
Hadi Sirika, minister of aviation, says passengers who undergo COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests more than four days...
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Sahara Reporters, 02 September 2020
Untapped $500m funding opportunity for Nigeria health sector
The Nigerian health sector is underfunded. While this is no new development, the COVID-19 pandemic brought this to the fore once again. 
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Business Day, 30 August 2020
Recurring epidemic: Why Nigeria’s 51 years fight against Lassa fever requires more funding, R&D
The effect of a pandemic could be as devastating as the negative outcome of a war, despite the lesson taught amid the COVID-19, yet...
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Daily Trust, 31 August 2020
76 In 100 women denied COVID-19 support in lockdown, survey shows
The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic has further marginalized women and exposed them to plethora of security challenges and domestic...
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Daily Trust, 03 September 2020
Nigeria has world’s highest sickle cell burden, says Foundation
he Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Sickle Cell Foundation, Dr Annette Akinsete has revealed that Nigeria has the highest burden of...
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Vanguard, 30 August 2020
FMC Yola again successfully separates conjoined twins
The Federal Medical Centre, Yola, has successfully separated another conjoined twins, the third in the series of such feat.
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WEEKLY BLOG RECAP

Lessons from Pathfinder Nigeria’s five decades of breaking boundaries in sexual and reproductive health

Pathfinder International started in Nigeria in 1965 when Dr. Clarence Gamble and his wife Sarah Gamble came to Nigeria in the hopes of laying a foundation for his work. Fifty-five years later, their journey has transformed lives and led to significant changes in Nigeria’s sexual and reproductive health space. 
 
With an estimated population of 196 million people, and a poorly managed and funded health care system, millions in Nigeria still lack access to essential health services. Eighty-six percent of married women of reproductive age aren’t using a modern method of contraception. Each year, an estimated 58,000 women die from pregnancy and childbirth complications in Nigeria, second only to India in terms of maternal deaths. 

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