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📡 Today's Health Signals
🔴 Outbreak/Emergency · 🟡 Developing · 🟢 Routine reporting
- 🟡 Nigeria's federal government moves to decriminalise attempted suicide - Africanews English — Google News — Nigeria Mental Health
- 🟡 Beyond the EAP checkbox: Why Nigerian employers need real workplace mental health strategy, not just policy - Businessday NG — Google News — Nigeria Mental Health
- 🟢 Mental Health: Expert Seeks End to Stigmatisation - Radio Nigeria Ibadan — Google News — Nigeria Mental Health
- 🟢 Kaduna has mainstreamed mental health into primary, secondary care – Gov Sani - Daily Post Nigeria — Google News — Nigeria Mental Health
- 🟢 World Mental Health Day - Independent Newspaper Nigeria — Google News — Nigeria Mental Health
- 🟢 Remi Tinubu Urges Nigerians To Tackle Mental Health Stigma - TVC News — Google News — Nigeria Mental Health
Section Highlights
📰 News & Journalism
- Nigeria accounts for 39% of global maternal deaths: FG rolls out 215,000 MAMA kits - The Sun Nigeria
- Israeli Medical Experts Train Enugu Health Workers On Emergency Maternal Care - - TVC News
💬 Community Voices
- DGC: Osun NAWOJ demands greater investment in girls’ education, health, protection - Daily Post Nigeria
- Group marks anniversary with charity drive at General Hospital - FRCN HQ
🔬 Research & Data
- Malaria Model Reveals Only Combined Nets and Drugs Can Halt Transmission in Nigerian Children - Bioengineer.org
- Model Shows Targeting Mosquito Larvae Could Avert Thousands of Malaria Cases in Nigeria - Bioengineer.org
💰 Health Financing
- BHCPF Enrolment Records 1.3m Increase in Third Quarter - Voice of Nigeria
- Nigeria’s medical equipment market has a problem money alone cannot solve - Businessday NG
📋 Policy Watch
- NAFDAC seeks partners’ support to revive vaccine manufacturing in Nigeria - Businessday NG
- Senate moves to establish malaria elimination agency - Businessday NG
📡 Disease Surveillance
- NCDC Nigeria Ebola High Alert: Declared Over DRC Outbreak - Wansom AI
- NCDC Nigeria: Mandates Ebola Health Declaration Forms For Travelers - Wansom AI
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NHIH Weekly Digest — September 28 to October 05, 2026
2026-09-28 to 2026-10-05
# NHIH Weekly Health Intelligence Digest ### Nigeria Health Intelligence Hub | Week of September 28 – October 5, 2026 ## 1. 📣 Editor's Briefing The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has placed the country on **high alert** for Ebola, coinciding with an active diphtheria outbreak spreading across Kaduna and the FCT — making this the most consequential disease surveillance week of the quarter. The simultaneous management of two serious infectious threats is testing the capacity of federal and state health systems at a moment when surveillance infrastructure is still being strengthened. The N…
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