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Dr Felicia Anumah.

Healthy diet and lifestyle modification essential to preventing diabetes

Abuja, 24 November, 2021 - “For diabetes, prevention is the cheaper…

Antibiotics

Experts caution Nigerians against indiscriminate use of antibiotics to reduce future health crisis

Abuja, 22 November 2021 - The World Health Organization is supporting…

An incubator at the neonatal ward in Kwali General Hospital

World Prematurity Day - Saving every baby born too early

Abuja 17 November 2021 - In November 2019, Ijeoma Uchenna, 25 years…

Mr Abubakar Yabagi.

Diabetes- negligence of the disease is very risky

Abuja, 11 November, 2021 - Abubakar Yabagi from Niger State believes…

Group picture with Governor’s representative (5th right), the WR (6th right), Borno State Commissioners for Health (4th right), government functionaries from Born, Adamawa & Yobe as well partners and WHO personnel

Review of Health Emergencies Programme in Nigeria’s Northeast opens, government and partners solicit WHO’s continued support.

Maiduguri, 15 November, 2021 - The Biannual Joint Operations Review (…

Nurse Balu Bukar Adamu

Health workers leaving no stone unturned, responding to mental health cases in the Northeast

Maiduguri November 4, 2021- In Nigeria’s North East, 12 years of…

Dr. Walter Kazadi Mulombo at the commissioning of 48 solar panels at the polio laboratory.

WHO delivers solar panels to accredited polio laboratory in Borno State

Maiduguri, 12 November, 2021 - In Maiduguri, Borno state, the World…

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Gearing towards a TB free Nigeria- WHO and partners scale up action

Abuja November 10, 2021- The World Health Organization (WHO) has…

An eligible child being administered with Seasonal Malaria drug. Photo_credit_Kingsley_WHO

WHO supports Adamawa and Yobe States to administer Malaria drugs to over 1.9 million children

Yola, 1 November, 2021 - Maimuna Abdulraham a caregiver and four…

Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo, WHO Representative and UN Resident Coordinator (Ad Interim) giving his remarks at the UN Day commemoration in Abuja. Photo credit_WHO_Ogbeidee

UN reaffirms commitment to ensuring peace and prosperity for all in Nigeria.

Abuja, October 25, 2021 - The United Nations System in Nigeria has…