The International Foundation for Science, IFS, has awarded a grant worth $15,000 to Dr Gabriel Anyanwu of the Department of Biochemistry, Bingham University, Karu, Nasarawa State, to support his research work, which seeks plant remedies for diabetes and obesity. IFS is a non-governmental organization based in Sweden. It supports...
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The Ekiti Government will vaccinate no fewer than 320,000 children ages nine months and 59 months under the integrated measles campaign from Oct. 20 to Oct. 26. Mrs Omolabake Ogundola, the Deputy State Immunisation Officer, Primary Health Care Agency (PHC) made this known while briefing newsmen in Ado-Ekiti on...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – No fewer than 100 million people join the poverty curve each year across the globe because of out-of-pocket spendings on health. The Programme Manager, Center for Social Justice (CSJ), Mr. Martins Eke disclosed this on Tuesday during a one day validation meeting of the...
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) says it will not hesitate to prosecute any erring hospital or pharmaceutical company that undermines the workings of the health insurance scheme. Acting Coordinator of NHIA in Ogun, Mr Bode Adeleke, made this known on Tuesday at a one-day sensitisation workshop for stakeholders...
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) hàs warned Nigerians against too much use of bleaching cosmetics, saying it could lead to skin cancer. This is contained in a statement signed by the agency’s media consultant, Mr Olusayo Akintola, and made available to newsmen on...
By PATRICK ABANG Calabar Against the backdrop of medical tourism, The Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital (UCTH), Professor Ikpeme Ikpeme has said that the desire of his administration is to provide first class infrastructural upgrade in the teaching hospital in line with the...
Ahead of the Seventh Replenishment Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in New York on Sept. 21, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), an NGO, has pledged 10 million dollars. AHF’s Marketing Manager in Nigeria, Mr Steve Aborisade, announced this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday. He stated...
Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, says the N10 billion earmarked in 2020 by the Federal Government for local production of vaccines, is still intact. The minister gave the assurance on Tuesday in Abuja, during the Ministerial bi-weekly update meeting on COVID-19 response. Ehanire said that the country had...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 21 more cases of monkey pox in the country within the past seven days. The NCDC via its official website announced on Sunday that the disease could be spread by close contact and exposure to an infected person’s respiratory droplets,...
Dr Leo Zekeng, Country Director, UN Joints Action Against HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), says the intervention of Global Fund has helped to reduce new HIV infections globally by 45 per cent. Zekeng said during the 7th replenishment preconference on Saturday in Abuja that Global Fund was indispensable in the fight against...
The World Health Organization has said that Nigeria has the highest death toll and confirmed cases of monkeypox in Africa. This was disclosed by WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, during a virtual press briefing tagged, ‘Road to defeating Meningitis by 2030’. Moeti said Nigeria recorded half...
The National Agency For Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has warned against misleading advertisement of regulated products by manufacturers without the approval of the agency. The Southwest Zonal Director of the agency, Mrs Roseline Ajayi, gave the warning during a stakeholders’ meeting on Thursday in Osogbo. Ajayi,...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto Breakthrough Action-Nigeria in its capacity and sustainability orientation for State Health Promotion Forum (SHPF) has promised to support in the development of specific work plan for its state social mobilization committee. Speaking on Thursday during a meeting with SHPF, The Sokoto State Coordinator of Breakthrough...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says cases of COVID-19 has declined globally. Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General said this on Wednesday in an online COVD-19 media briefing. “This is very encouraging. But there is no guarantee these trends will persist. The most dangerous thing is to assume they will....
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has announced 14 deaths in 10 states from suspected cases of yellow fever between January to July 2022. The NCDC stated this via its official website on Sunday. It said the affected states included Abia (one), Bayelsa (one), Benue (one),...
Nigeria recorded 48 additional cases of monkeypox between Aug. 8 and Aug. 14. The 48 cases were recorded in 16 states, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) stated on its website on Saturday. It stated that Lagos State topped the list of new infections with 15 cases, while...
The UN Joint Action Against HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has assured of its commitment to ensure that people living with HIV/AIDS can live a normal life HIV/AIDS through access to tests and treatments. Dr Leo Zekeng, Country Director, UNAIDS said on Wednesday in Abuja at an advocacy meeting to launch availability...
AIDS Health Care Foundation (AHF) and other Civil Society Organisations in the country, on Wednesday urged Nigeria and other countries to contribute to the Global Fund to tackle HIV, TB and Malaria. The Global Fund is targeting to raise 18 billion dollars to tackle the scourge of HIV, TB...
Aliko Dangote Foundation, Kano Government, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on improving Routine Immunisation in the state.. Speaking during the signing of the MoU on Wednesday in Kano, the Managing Director of Aliko Dangote...
A recent study has found that China’s first self-developed HPV vaccine, Cecolin, can offer female adults full immunity against two human papillomavirus (HPV). A group of Chinese researchers analysed data from 66-month follow-up visits as part of the bivalent vaccine’s Phase 3 clinical trial. They found that its efficacy...