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CSM reactive vaccination in Sokoto

Meningitis outbreak- WHO intervenes to halt further fatalities.

Abuja, 14 April 2015 - The World Health Organization state office in…
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The Minister of Health (3rd left) and WR at the World TB Day

2015 World TB Day: Nigeria unites against tuberculosis.

Abuja, 24 March 2015 - The Federal Government has renewed its…
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Nigeria inaugurates National Laboratory Containment Committee for polio virus.

Abuja, 23 March 2015 - The Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) has…
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Nigeria commemorates 2015 World Oral Health Day

Nigeria commemorates 2015 World Oral Health Day

Nigeria has organised a week-long programme of activities to…
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Distribution of health facilities visited by DSNOs in February 2015

Rivers State expands mobile technology for real-time disease surveillance reporting

Abuja, 10 March 2015 - In Rivers, one of the two States in Nigeria…
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SCDDs personnel immunizing a child

Nigeria scales up local innovations to immunize children in insecure areas

Abuja, 28 February 2015 -- In determined efforts to interrupt…
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01 First child in the Federal Capital Territory to receive inactivated polio vaccine

Nigeria introduces inactivated polio vaccine into routine immunization schedule

Abuja, 20 February 2015 -- Nigeria has introduced the inactivated…
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Dr Hakeem Yusuf sensitizing local leaders on AFP

Nigeria enhances acute flaccid paralysis surveillance along international borders

Abuja, Nigeria 19 February, 2015 - The World Health Organization (WHO…
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Ibadan group picture

WHO supports Nigerian government in efforts to eradicate polio in 2015

Ibadan, Oyo Nigeria 5 February, 2015 – To sustain interruption of…
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Highway vaccination

Stopping WPV Importations: Kaduna vaccinates over 43,000 children on Transit

Abuja, Nigeria 02 February, 2015 - In Kaduna, 43,201 children were…
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