The organisation’s Measles Consultant, Dr. Bezu Beshir, made the disclosure at the 2017 sensitisation meeting on measles campaign with journalists in Bauchi.
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Etebu told the News Agency of Nigeria on telephone that the two cases were not fresh but old ones
The report indicate that the immunization exercise would be conducted at Internally Displaced Persons camps and host communities of Damasak, Banki, Bama, Gamburu, Ngala and Pulka.
WHO said South Africa’s travel and trade links with the island nation of Madagascar, where the outbreak has left no fewer than 124 people dead since September, puts it at risk.
WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, named Mugabe to the largely ceremonial post at a meeting on chronic diseases attended by both men in Uruguay on Wednesday.
Declaring open the event, Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, described tobacco as the legal drug that kills its users even when exactly used as intended by the manufacturers
Dr. Matshidiso made this pledge at the weekend in Maiduguri, while meeting with the Executive of Borno State, Kashim Shetima, who was represented by his Deputy, Usman Mamman Durkwa
The World Health Organisation said in the study that if current trends continued, there would be more obese children and adolescents than those moderately or severely underweight by 2022
Rogo, who is the Lead Health Specialist in Africa, World Bank Group, made this observation on Monday when he led officials of World Bank and Pharm Access on a courtesy call on the Kwara State Governor, Dr, Abdulfatah Ahmed, at Government House, Ilorin
The News Agency of Nigeria learnt that those with the suspected cases had been quarantined at the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital, Okolobiri, Yenagoa Local Government Area
Those inducted were the Director-General, Nigerian Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Prof. Karniyus Gamaniel; former Deputy Provost, University of Lagos, Prof. Herbert Coker; one-time national pharmaceutical advisor, World Health Organisation, Dr. Ogori Taylor; first African woman to bag the fellowship of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists in the US and Professor of Pharmaceutics
Humans bitten by an infected flea usually develop a bubonic form of plague, which swells lymph nodes and could be treated with antibiotics
The scope of the agreement covers sexual and reproductive health education and increasing consumer access to condoms.
“Most of the drugs currently in the clinical pipeline are modifications of existing classes of antibiotics and are only short-term solutions. “Antimicrobial resistance is a global health emergency that will seriously jeopardise progress in modern medicine,” WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom, said in a statement on Thursday in New York
A humanitarian medical organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres, said about 48 persons have died of cholera since the outbreak of the…
The development was confirmed by the Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, in a statement by his spokesperson, Boade Akinola
The Director-General of WHO, Tedros Ghebreyesus, stated this in the: “WHO HIV Drug Resistance Report 2017.”
Sobande of the Faculty of Clinical Science, Lagos State University College of Medicine, Ikeja, gave the advice in a lecture at the college auditorium in Lagos.
It said the investigation was imperative and urged the committee to expedite action on it to save the lives of Nigerians
Gonorrhoea is a sexually transmitted infection caused by bacteria called Neisseria gonorrhoeae or gonococcus