Multi-faceted challenges complicate DR Congo’s Ebola outbreak
Ebola outbreak in DR Congo has averaged 5 new cases daily Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that...
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Friday, November 15, 2024
An exclusive interview with the DG of Nigeria’s AIDS control agency
Dr. Sani Aliyu is the Director General of the Nigerian Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA). He recently spoke...
Read moreWorld AIDS Day: 90% of children living with HIV are in Africa
In the world today, 3 million children and adolescents were living with HIV in 2017 out of which nearly 9...
Read moreNigeria has the highest number of unvaccinated children in the world
The World Health Organization (WHO) has revealed that Nigeria has the highest number of unvaccinated infants in the world with...
Read moreFirst-ever multi-drug Ebola trial begins in DR Congo
The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced the commencement of the first-ever multi-drug Ebola trial inDemocratic Republic of Congo. In...
Read moreNigerian government confirms yellow fever outbreak
The Nigerian government has announced a suspected hemorrhagic fever outbreak in Edo state turned out to be that of yellow...
Read moreHealth in Nigeria: Many stuffs don’t add up
In the last two months, I've had a first-hand understanding of the wide gap between what Nigeria's health administrators tell...
Read moreGoogle honors Nigeria’s Ebola heroine with a Doodle
Today would have the 62nd birthday of Dr. Ameyo Adadevoh, the Nigerian doctor that was credited for preventing a widespread escalation...
Read moreThe obvious link between underage marriage and vesicovaginal fistula in Nigeria
Late Wednesday October 24, 2018, Dr Amina Abubakar Bello, an obstetrician and the First Lady of Niger state in Nigeria,...
Read moreNigeria’s Center for Disease Control is a victim of its own success – DG
A single new pathogen, a single new virus can set us back 100 years. It can wipe out half of...
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