There are indications that Africa will need at least $12billion from now to 2015 to respond to issues of HIV/ADIS. This amount is $4billion higher than the curent spending in the region. The hint was given by the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/A...
There are indications that Africa will need at least $12billion from now to 2015 to respond to issues of HIV/ADIS. This amount is $4billion higher than the current spending in the region. This hint was given by the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV...
Fix sanitation; fix diseases is how experts have summed up the need for a clean environment and good personal hygiene so as to stop the transmission of communicable diseases, writes WINIFRED OGBEBO. The cliché that cleanliness is nex...
While 2012 was set as a deadline for Nigeria to eradicate the wild polio virus, the country has continued to witness upsurge in the virus with 56 cases already reported . In this interview with WINIFRED OGBEBO, Dr Abdullah...
Health workers in the field of Medical Laboratory Science have been called upon to avoid strike action in the course of their duties and to avoid dabbling in politics in the name of unionism. The minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu gave this adv...
As part of the multi-dimensional approach towards fighting drug counterfeiting, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has decided to deploy some regulatory officers to man the new Mega Drug Distribution Centers buil...
The National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) through the support of the Global Fund grant atthe weekend handed over the last 6 of 28 vehicles for community services against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. The agency said its part of intensifi...
Six children were killed in a fire on Friday in Dagoni village, Kaita local government area of Katsina State. A relation of one of the deceased, Malam Danjuma Mohammadu, said on Saturday in Dagoni that the inferno occurred at about 4.30 p.m. in a grana...
A reckless driver trying to maneuver his commercial bus from a heavy bonfire by protesters at Ikosi –Ketu area of Lagos killed two peoplw who were on a motorbike. An eye witness said the accident occurred when the mass protesters stopped a ...
The Christian Health Association Of Nigeria(CHAN), has revealed that the dreaded HIV/AIDS claims more than 2,000 lives of the total population of the country. This was disclosed by the director of Advocacy of the group, Pastor David Omorebokhae, ...
No fewer than 88 persons were killed in 112 road traffic crashes between January and December this year in Sokoto State. The Sokoto State Sector Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), Alhaji Aliyu Bawa, made the disclosure at the 2011 ...
Eight persons died while nine others sustained serious injuries following an accident at Kanawa Forest near Kwadon village in Yamaltu Deba Local Government Area of Gombe, on Sunday. According to an eye witness, Malam Mohammed Sani, the accident occurre...
The executive director, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Ado Mohammed, has declared that Nigeria has made significant stride and would eradicate polio within two years despite the upsurge in wild polio this year. Speaking a...
A medical practitioner with general hospital Lagos, Dr Tajudeen Salami , has called on the Federal Government to create offices of the National Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) in all the ports of the country. Salami told the Ne...
The Nigerian Urban Reproductive Health Initiative (NURHI) has revealed that child mortality rates in the country is on the increase because of low up take of modern family planning methods by the people. The Programme Director of NURHI,, Mrs Adeb...