A patient with fever in Ibadan was being injected with analgin, four other painkillers and four antibiotics. In its bid to ...

WHO releases Global Tuberculosis Report 2017 Global efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB) have reportedly saved an estimated 53 million lives ...

Dr Ren Minghui WHO's Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases, has disclosed that it is not possible to meet the ambitious hepatitis ...

"Outbreaks can be contained and pandemics prevented when countries have core capabilities in place" When a deadly mystery illness was ...

According to UNICEF, Nigeria currently accounts for 20 per cent of all of Africa’s births UNICEF says Nigeria currently accounts for 20 ...

The Marburg virus disease currently ravaging East Africa has a case fatality ratio of up to 88% Marburg virus is ...

UNICEF says doubling rate of current decline not enough to reduce child marriage in West Africa Unless progress is seriously accelerated, it ...

There is another Ebola-like disease outbreak plaguing Africa, it is Marburg virus disease in eastern Uganda The World Health Organization ...

Nigeria's Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has released the country's Monkeypox Outbreak Response National Guidelines It is available below Download ...

There are no specific treatments or vaccines available for monkeypox infection, but outbreaks can be controlled. Monkeypox is a rare ...