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  • Nurturing the Nurturer: Promoting Adequate Nutrition for Pregnant Women in Sokoto State

    April 10, 2023 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Sokoto

    The Save the Child Initiative, in collaboration with the Society for Women Development and Empowerment in Nigeria, is working to ensure that expectant mothers receive proper nutrition during pregnancy so they can deliver healthy babies. The initiative provides iron and folic acid supplements, nutrition counseling, hosts antenatal clinics, and even travels door-to-door to provide education and care to those in need.

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  • Serving Freshness: How Coldhubs is Tackling Food Waste in Nigeria

    February 06, 2023 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    To help prevent food waste, Coldhubs provides solar-powered cold stations in local markets where farmers can store produce and perishable goods until they are ready to sell them. The organization has served more than 5,000 small farmers so far.

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  • Society for Family Health: Leveraging Digital Platforms to Train Family Planning Service Providers

    January 16, 2023 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Enugu

    The Society for Family Health developed a digital learning curriculum that intends to improve the knowledge base and train healthcare providers on how to properly administer hormonal IUDs. The digital training is available on the global learning platform Kaya and has proved to not only be more convenient and accessible, but is also more cost effective than traditional, in-person training.

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  • Jela's Development Initiatives: Promoting Inclusiveness in Mental Health Interventions

    December 26, 2022 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Jela’s Development Initiatives provides mental health support services through counseling sessions to help people with disabilities identify the causes of depression and resources to care for their mental wellbeing. One of their mental health initiative, Unburden, allows individuals access to free monthly group therapy sessions, experts, and a safe, judgment-free space where they can talk about what’s bothering them and work toward finding possible solutions.

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  • Nigerian Medical Students' Association: Active Citizenship for Health Improving Malaria Prevention and Treatment Awareness

    April 11, 2022 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    Different chapters of the Nigerian Medical Students’ Association came together to form the National Malaria Elimination and Sensitisation Project or NMESP in 2021 wherein 433 of their members volunteered to carry out outreach work. They collaborated with local churches, youth groups, and the local health centers to reach the community. In 46 days, they had spread malaria awareness in about 38 communities and tested 523 people with Rapid Diagnostic Test kits. They also prescribed medications, and distributed free repellents and insecticide-treated mosquito nets.

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  • From a Fact-Finding Visit to Providing Safe Water for Sauka Community

    February 07, 2022 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Sauka

    The international organization Riders for Health provided an electric generator to a community in Nigeria to power their water pump and get them access to clean drinking water.

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  • Guilty or not Guilty? How PSN Africa is addressing the realities of postpartum depression in Lagos State

    June 07, 2021 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos State

    The Postpartum Support Network Africa turned a foothold in one Lagos hospital into a 50-hospital network in two states combatting postpartum depression by training healthcare workers, screening for the problem, and providing therapy to mothers. The World Health Organization estimates that postpartum depression affects nearly 1 in 5 women in developing countries. Though common, it can be hard to detect and many lack awareness of its symptoms and treatment. PSN Africa's six-year push to improve the response to the problem has reached tens of thousands of mothers and their caregivers.

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  • Displaced but not forgotten: Organisations delivering family planning services to Abuja's IDP camps

    February 02, 2021 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria

    The Covid-19 pandemic complicated health care for women living in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Nigeria who already lacked access to family planning services and education, but collaborative efforts are working to change this. Through collective action, a group of non-profits worked together to create a one-day outreach event that provided education and trained community members to carry on the work.

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  • Health workers who deliver: LUTH's resolve to help COVID-19 positive mothers give birth safely

    September 02, 2020 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Lagos State

    When the reality of the coronavirus pandemic arrived in Nigeria, health officials at Lagos University Teaching Hospital prioritized preparatory training and created a COVID-19 volunteer team of responders. These efforts proved especially crucial when the need arose to provide care to women who were pregnant and positive for COVID-19. Although it was difficult to assemble a team who would handle the at-risk deliveries, the first attempt proved successful and the team has been able to expand their services since then.

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  • In Safe Hands: First complex heart surgery at Reddington Hospital a huge success despite COVID-19

    August 26, 2020 |

    Nigeria Health Watch |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Victoria Island, Lagos State

    A partnership between a Nigerian hospital and a cardiac interventionist group is helping to "bridge the gap in availability of quality cardiac and critical care services" for patients who are in need of care. Although the system was first tested unexpectedly during the coronavirus pandemic, it has shown early success in building and training local specialists to complete cardiac surgeries.

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