The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has commended the Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, for introducing measures to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in Nigeria.
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Nigeria is facing a critical funding shortfall in its efforts to combat tuberculosis (TB), with an estimated 80,000 expected TB patients in 2024 still unidentifiable or untreated.
As Nigeria gets set to mark 2025 World TB Day, government has vowed to eliminate the disease amid alarming statistics ranking the country 1st in Africa and 6th globally among 30 high-burden TB nations.
The University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) has become Nigeria’s first NSCC-NBTE/UNESCO Centre of Excellence-accredited National Skills Qualification (NSQ) training provider for Geriatric Social Care.
Renowned Nigerian physician, Dr Tochi Okwor, said that the 2018 Lassa fever outbreak exposed critical gaps in the nation’s infection prevention and control (IPC) system.
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday listed Nigeria among the eight countries likely to run out of supply of HIV treatments soon.
A psychologist, Prof. Remi Alarape, has advised individuals with suicidal tendencies to seek professional help rather than resort to suicide.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that up to 25 countries are expected to include malaria vaccines in their childhood immunisation programmes by the end of 2025.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that more than 47 million health professionals, patients, and advocates have signed a global call for urgent action to reduce air pollution.
The Sokoto State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Faruku Umar Abubakar Wurno, has issued a two-week ultimatum for unauthorized occupants of…