Applications are open for Grand Challenges Nigeria Advancing Innovative Solutions for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is confronting some of the most urgent health and development challenges in the world. Among the most critical of these is achieving substantial improvements in maternal, newborn, and child health. Despite various interventions over time, the country continues to face some of the highest maternal and child mortality rates in the world, with unrelenting poor indicators of morbidity, undernutrition, and human development. (more…)