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How DR Congo’s Ebola outbreak became a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
On 17 July 2019, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the...
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Website of Nigeria’s health insurance scheme has been down for weeks
For at least five weeks, the website of Nigeria's National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has been down, healthnews.ng can exclusively...
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Two Nigerian states move to end open defecation
The governments of Ondo and Ekiti states have taken steps aimed at ending open defecation in their respective states. In...
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Gene editing used to eliminate HIV
In a study published July 2 in Nature Communications researchers report a possible new way to eliminate HIV from an infected animal’s genome....
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Confusion as implementation of new e-yellow card policy goes into effect
The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced its plan to phase out completely, all old versions of Yellow card and...
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New head appointed for Nigeria’s insurance scheme, NCDC boss appointed
Prof. Mohammed Sambo is the new head of Nigeria's National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). "Following the recommendations of report by an...
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Nigerian health genomics and AI start-up raises nearly $5m funding
54gene (the D.B.A. of Stack Diagnostics), the African-focused healthtech genomics and AI start-up that is leading in the diagnosis and...
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Only Ghana has eliminated trachoma in Africa
Even though the number of people at risk of trachoma which is the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness, has...
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These countries have HIV-related travel restrictions
UNAIDS and UNDP today released a list of 48 countries with HIV-related travel restrictions. UNAIDS and the United Nations Development...
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