The Representative of the World Health Organisation in Nigeria, Dr. David Okello has urged Rotary International not to relent in its advocacy and fund raising efforts to ensure that polio is eradicated from the world. …
Read moreOn Friday 29 June, 2012 -- World Health Organization Nigeria organized a polio briefing meeting for representatives of Development Partners in Abuja. The objectives of the meeting were to provide updates on the current p…
Read moreWith a view to improving child health, the Nigerian government has introduced pentavalent vaccine into her routine immunization schedule. Pentavalent vaccine is a combination of five vaccines-in-one that prevents diphthe…
Read moreIn this issue: Lead Poisoning in Zamfara State of Nigeria Use of ARVs in HIV Prevention WHO support introduction of Pentavalent vaccine World Malaria Day 2012 Celebration in Nigeria Healthy Ageing View/Download…
Read morePledges of commitment by government and partners and advocacy for malaria prevention and control characterized interventions made during events organized to mark this year’s World Malaria Day (WMD) in Nigeria. T…
Read more23rd March 2012 -- On the occasion of World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) in Nigeria donated TB laboratory diagnostic equipment and consumables worth $330,000 to improve TB care in Nigeria. T…
Read moreThe National TB control programme under the Federal Ministry of Health has finally started a nationwide population based national TB prevalence survey. Advocacy, enumeration and data collection has started in three state…
Read moreThough TB control and prevention efforts in Nigeria has progressed relatively well over the almost two decades of the introduction of the DOTS Strategy, it still constitutes a public health challenge. According to the…
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