In a region where health threats know no borders, strengthening cross-border collaboration has become a matter of urgency for West Africa. Last week, a major step was taken toward improving health security across the ECOWAS region, as public health leaders…
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed a stark truth about public health systems around the world: no country, regardless of its resources, is fully prepared to manage a global health emergency without significant coordination and collaboration. In Nigeria, where diseases like Lassa…
IntroductionPublic health emergencies represent a profound challenge to national governance, testing the resilience of legal frameworks and healthcare infrastructures alike. In Nigeria, the recent Ebola outbreak of 2014 and the global COVID-19 pandemic starkly underscored the country’s vulnerabilities in managing…