By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – About 3,800 people die each day from tuberculosis while no fewer than 30,000 persons are infected from the deadly disease. The Borno State Commissioner of Health and Human Services, Professor Baba Gana stated this on Monday at an event to commemorate the 2024...
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that more than 2.5 million individuals contracted Tuberculosis in 2022 in Africa, equating to one person per every 13 seconds. Regional Director for Africa, WHO, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, said this in her message to commemorate the World TB Day....
The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Muhammad Ali Pate, has called for a review of the country’s strategies to combat the malaria burden. He said this when partners from the Malaria Alliance, RBM Malaria Partnership, and Nigerian officials of WHO Global Malaria Programme visited him...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says that Rotary International has committed more funds to support Nigeria in its efforts to eradicate all forms of polioviruses, especially the Circulating Variant Poliovirus (cVPV2). In a statement on the WHO’s WhatsApp page, it said that the new grant, amounting to 14,037,787...
The Cross River Government on Thursday announced the outbreak of Lassa fever in Ejah Community of Osupong Ward 1, Obubura Local Government Area of the state. This is contained in a notification Dr Henry Ayuk, Cross River Commissioner for Health in Calabar. Ayuk said the state government has...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised alarm on the increase in dengue infections recorded in 2023 globally, which represents a potentially high public health threat. The UN health agency gave the warning on Friday as it reported more than five million dengue infections and 5,000 deaths from...
By OUR HEALTH REPORTER – The World health Organization (WHO) has called for continued access to address urgent needs in north Gaza. The call came after the staff of the world health body participated in a joint UN mission to Al-Shifa Hospital in north Gaza on 16 December to...
By THELMA CHIOMA THOMAS-ABEKU (Lead Writer) – The launch of the Noma Centre Abuja is set to transform medical care for those affected by the devastating noma disease. The centre is more than just a treatment centre, it represents a symbol of hope, compassion, and community support, offering free services to...
By GRACE AUDU – News data released by the World Health Organization (WHO), show a low global rate of taxes being applied to unhealthy products such as alcohol and sugary sweetened beverages (SSBs). The findings, according to the data released today in Geneva, highlight that the majority of countries...
World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday raised an alarm over what it termed “increasing rate of Tuberculosis (TB) infection in Borno.” The organisation’s Head of Mission/Country Representative, Dr Walter Mulombo, expressed the organisation’s concern during the North-East Nigeria 13th WHO End-Term Joint Operations Review (JOR) in Yola. The...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has described a strike on an ambulance convoy outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip as horrific, reiterating his appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire. The ambulances evacuating critically injured and sick patients to Al Shifa Hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip were...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri -. World Health Organisation (WHO) in collaboration with the Borno State Government have flagged off a 10-day vaccination campaign on fIPV and nOPV across the 27 local government areas in the state. The fIPV which stands for Fractional doses of the Inactivated Poliovirus...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on the Federal Government to increase routine vaccination to nip outbreaks in the bud. Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General made the call during an online media conference. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports diphtheria to be an acute and highly...
Rep. Amobi Ogah, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, on Sunday in Abuja urged the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on malaria. He gave the charge in a statement he issued to commemorate the 2023 World Mosquito Day. The World...
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By GRACE AUDU (Health Correspondent) – The World Health Organization (WHO), shared on Monday its latest guidance on sexually transmitted infections (STI) at the STI & HIV 2023 World Congress taking place in Chicago, the United States of America, on 24-27 July 2023. With STIs on the rise, WHO...
On the eve of World Drowning Prevention Day, the European Regional Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) highlighted the urgency of raising awareness on drowning. As a public health issue, this has killed an estimated 20,000 people annually in the European region. “Most of us rarely, if ever,...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has attributed the spike in dengue fever to global warming marked by higher average temperatures, precipitation, and longer period of drought. Dr Raman Velayudhan, WHO’s Head of the Global Programme on control of Neglected Tropical Diseases told journalists at the UN in Geneva on...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The World Health Organization (WHO) says diphtheria is a vaccine-preventable disease, urging Nigerians to ensure that their children are fully vaccinated against the disease with the prescribed three doses of the pentavalent vaccine. The WHO Emergency Manager in charge of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) cancer research agency on Friday classified the commonly used artificial sweetener aspartame as “possibly carcinogenic to human”. Although, another UN Committee reaffirmed that there was a safe daily level of consumption. The joint assessment from WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and...