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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.

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

Across the world, health workers brave conflict, emergencies and disasters, risking their lives to save the lives of others. VaccinesWork spoke to doctors and nurses in conflict-afflicted areas of Nigeria to learn what keeps them going.

22 Feb 2024

8 min read

Health worker heroes Conflict & humanitarian

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

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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

Health workers fighting Lassa fever. Credit: Alima

Courage and duty in Nigeria’s Lassa fever outbreak

16 Sep 2022

4 min read

Lassa fever Pandemic preparedness

Health workers on duty in Lagos. Photo credit: Eric Dumo

Monkeypox, Lassa and a pandemic: Lagos fights off a new COVID-19 wave with vaccination drive

26 Aug 2022

4 min read

Mpox Lassa fever Vaccine campaigns

From left to right: Adebimpe Raheem, Ahmed Kabir and Haruna Bashi. Credit: Eric Dumo

Angels of hope battle monkeypox in Nigeria

20 Jun 2022

4 min read

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