Following several years of steady progress towards elimination of measles in the European Region, the number of countries that have achieved or sustained elimination of the disease has declined.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control with the World Health Organisation and Ebonyi State Government are responding to the outbreak of yellow fever in the state, which has resulted in ...
More than 20 million Nigerians may be living with Hepatitis B virus unknown to them, Anambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr Vincent Okpala, said on Monday in Awka.
The travel alert was issued in a statement made available to newsmen by the Head of Media and Public Affairs of NAHCON, Fatima Usara, on Tuesday in Abuja
This is according to a statement by Charity Warigon, Media and Communication Expert for WHO Nigeria, in Abuja on Tuesday.
WHO chief, Tedros Ghebreyesus, who announced the declaration in Geneva, called on countries to “take notice and redouble our efforts”
In an update on Friday, the world health body said 2,284 people had been infected since the outbreak in the country’s Ituri and North Kivu provinces nearly 11 months ago
In a report published on Wednesday, WHO listed other countries affected to include Bangladesh, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, South Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine, the West Bank and Gaza Strip
The world has failed to combat sexually transmitted bacterial infections in the past few years, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday in a study that estimates one million new ...
The World Health Organisation says “Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission” initiative has helped to protect 94.9 per cent infants exposed to HIV by their mothers in Nigeria.
The film tells the story of a young boy growing up with autism and the impact of the condition on his family as they raise him
As Nigeria eagerly awaits her certification as polio free by the World Health Organisation, the Aliko Dangote Foundation has boosted the nation’s efforts to finally end a scourge, which had ...
Adewole made the plan known in Abuja on Tuesday at the State Tuberculosis and HIV Programme Managers and stakeholders meeting
The DG spoke on Saturday at the opening of a Steering Committee Meeting of the West African Medicines Regulatory Harmonisation Project at Swiss International D’Palms Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria
The World Health Organisation has said there were a total of 591 Ebola cases, 543 of which are confirmed, and 357 deaths, 309 of which are confirmed, in the Democratic ...
No fewer than 1.35 million people die on the roads each year, while road traffic injuries are now the leading cause of death among young people, the latest statistics from ...
Nigeria has an estimate of 1.3 million children who are critically disabled out of estimated 25 million people with disability, the Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the UN, Prof. Tijjani ...
The Federal Government in collaboration with the World Health Organisation on Thursday restated commitments to end Noma disease in the country by 2023.
The Nigerian Medical Association has commended the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control over move to reduce the risk associated with cardiovascular diseases.
The statement, issued during the World Congress of Gynaecology and Obstetrics in Rio de Janeiro, stressed that such tests were both unscientific and a violation of human rights.
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