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Nigeria's Health Facility Registry has been inaugurated by the federal government with the aim of facilitating free flow of health information to the general public. Speaking at the inauguration in ...

The Federal Government of Nigeria in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) has inaugurated a Maternal and Perinatal Health Database Committee. The Committee would monitor and generate data from ...

Federal Government has called on stakeholders in the health sector to renew their commitment and provide resources to ensure that the fight against malaria in the country is successful. The ...

Cancer still remain a major public health threat in Nigeria. WHO report of 2017 showed that cancer account for over 72, 000 death annually in Nigeria. This number is set ...

Nigeria's health minister, Prof Isaac Adewole The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has announced that leprosy is curable and the treatment is free in all the designated ...

The new deal will help in the control of tuberculosis in Nigeria till 2029. The Nigerian government has signed a partnership agreement in funding support with the Global Fund to ...

Even though the low proposed budgetary allocation for health in the Nigerian government's 2019 proposed budget that was recently presented to the National Assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari for approval ...

On Tuesday, Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari, officially rolled out the country's Basic Health Care Provision Fund as appropriated by the National Assembly in the 2018 budget. The fund will be ...

HIV/AIDS still remains a public health threat that affects people across the world and Nigeria still ranks high among countries with huge burden of HIV in the world, making her ...

Dr. Sani Aliyu is the Director General of the Nigerian Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA). He recently spoke to healthnews.africa on various issues regarding HIV control in Nigeria ...