This was revealed during a press briefing held at the Ministry of Health headquarters, Abakaliki, on Monday, as part of events marking this year’s World Breastfeeding Week.
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The activity was recently launched in Adamawa and Bauchi states.
This agency said it will achieve this goal through its State Accountability, Transparency and Effectiveness (State2state) activity, which will last for a period of five years, 2020-2025.
The USAID/Nigeria Safe Surgery in Family Planning and Obstetrics activity, a part of the global USAID MOMENTUM project, will reduce maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity by supporting institutions and local organisations to introduce, scale-up and sustain evidence-based prevention and surgical management of obstetric fistula and female genital mutilation, mitigating the adverse effects and complications of these conditions.
Known as: Improving Sanitation, Hygiene and Safe Drinking Water in North West Nigeria, the activity to be managed by UNICEF will provide life-saving WASH services to more than 300,000 people in need of assistance.
The handover took place in a ceremony between Ambassador Leonard, who is leading the U.S. delegation on a tour of the U.S. government activities in Akwa Ibom, President and Founder of Belemaoil Nigeria Ltd. Tein Jack-Rich.
The admonition formed part of outcome of a recent training of selected media workers on TB reporting by the BreakThrough Action, Nigeria in collaboration with some states Ministries of Health.
The donation of equipment in Adamawa State was a part of USAID’s $19.2 million Integrated Child Health and Social Services Region 4 Award that will help more than 75,000 vulnerable children and their caregivers in Adamawa and Bauchi States become more resilient to the HIV epidemic’s health and social consequences.
In a statement, the agency said it recognized that Nigeria is experiencing food insecurity, which is compounded by the new global coronavirus pandemic and its effects on the food value chain.
Under the MOU, the United States through the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), will provide technical assistance to the NLNG-led Bonny Island Malaria Elimination Project. The partnership seeks to bring malaria deaths to zero in the community of 300,000 and make the island Nigeria’s first malaria-free zone.
Dr. Audu Liman, the Chief of Party USAID, gave the advice at Bomala village in Kwami Local Government Area of the state during the celebration of the 2021 International Mother Language Day at Bomala Primary School.
The trade platform, which is structured to manage the end to end of the supply chain for both importers and exporters from any part of the world with a protection of the legal framework and insurance against losses provides array opportunities, with four payment and service packages to accommodate everyone’s capabilities, including SMEs.
The inauguration was part of its two-day Social and Behaviour Change Advocacy Orientation and Work plan Development Workshop held last week at the Osborne La Palm hotel, Abakaliki
Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for more than half of the world’s populations living at or below the poverty line. A recent World Bank scenario estimates that COVID-19 could push up to 40 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa into extreme poverty, seriously eroding the progress that African countries have made to reduce deprivation during the past two decades.
He told the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Tuesday that the state of CPR or Family Planning in the country
was still far from achieving the desired goal.
Nanono at a webinar organised by Winrock International to inaugurate the USAID funded ‘Feed the Future Agricultural Extension and Advisory Services Activity,’ said that the Federal Government was determined to reposition the agric sector.
She told the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Ilorin that the speculation that such people are abnormal is not true as people base their stigma on myths and ignorance against blue-eyed people in the society
The US Agency for International Development through the Prosper Africa initiative is partnering with the United Bank for Africa Plc to increase two-way trade and investment between the United States and the nations of Africa.
The Ebonyi State Government on Tuesday signed a $40 million Memorandum of Understanding with the United States Agency for International Development for further Agricultural development in the State.
As part of efforts to curb outbreak of diseases, the Niger State Government has been urged to introduce a monthly environmental sanitation exercise.