Eric Dumo

Eric Dumo is a multimedia journalist from Nigeria with over 16 years of experience covering development issues, health, human rights and other important beats. A former Managing Editor of SaharaReporters, a leading news publication based in New York, he has won numerous journalism awards.

Nigerian army wives take the fight to cervical cancer

While their husbands defend their country from security threats in in the country’s north, a group of wives of Nigerian army officers are campaigning for the HPV vaccine, in hopes of definitively routing cervical cancer.

30 Jan 2025

6 min read

HPV Maternal and child health

NAOWA has continued to raise awareness of the disease in Kebbi and several other states. Credit: NAOWA

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Permanent Epiere wishes the malaria vaccine came earlier. Credit: Permanent Epiere

Hope and despair on Nigeria’s malaria frontline

27 Nov 2024

7 min read

Malaria Spotlight on malaria

Sanitation officials speaking to some Lagos residents about the disease. Credit: Eric Dumo

Lagos moves fast to quash cholera outbreak

2 Aug 2024

9 min read

Cholera Outbreaks

A nurse preparing a syringe with pentavalent vaccine in Nigeria. Credit: GAVI/2013/Adrian Brooks

Medics in the firing line: Nigerian health workers tell stories of courage

22 Feb 2024

8 min read

Health worker heroes Conflict & humanitarian

Bauchi governor administers the vaccine to a girl Credit: AsheNews

Nigeria’s HPV jab roll-out gathers momentum as wary mothers come aboard

20 Nov 2023

8 min read

HPV

Girls holding a banner to promote the HPV vaccine.

Nigerian girls look forward to roll-out of cancer-blocking jab

20 Oct 2023

6 min read

HPV Routine immunisation

A nurse speaks with patients at RAiSE Foundation center in Niger State. Credit: WHO/Blink Media/Etinosa Yvonne

“None of her granddaughters will have to experience this”: Cervical cancer in Nigeria

4 Oct 2023

7 min read

HPV

Kids help promote healthy lifestyle in the community. Credit: LOTS foundation

How a Lagos community built on a garbage dump learned to keep safe from disease

11 Jul 2023

8 min read

Malaria Typhoid Cholera

Nurses at Lagos hospital. Credit: guardian.ng

Retired nurses turn reinforcements at short-staffed Lagos health facilities

20 Jun 2023

6 min read

The road to the hospital has become safer and easier to ride. Credit: Eric Dumo

In Ogun state, Nigeria, a new road offers babies a path to vaccination

24 Apr 2023

6 min read

Routine immunisation Pentavalent

Millions of Nigerians usually come in physical contact during the country's national elections. Credit: Premium Times

How to prevent an election-demic

22 Feb 2023

7 min read

Lassa fever Outbreaks

Main entrance of Muritala Mohammed Specialist Hospital. Credit: Eric Dumo

United in crisis: Nigeria battles diphtheria

8 Feb 2023

5 min read

Diphtheria Outbreaks Vaccine safety

Parts of the Bayelsa community still submerged in water. Credit: Eric Dumo

Flood-displaced Nigerians rely on humanitarian intervention to stay healthy as outbreaks threaten

24 Nov 2022

5 min read

Conflict & humanitarian Cholera

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