13 March 2002 --For Nigeria to meet the global target of interrupting transmission of wild poliovirus by the end of this year, it has been recommended that the country conducts two rounds of Sub-National Immunization Day…
Read more12 March 2002 -- In its continued efforts to find solutions to the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the country, the Nigerian government, over the weekend, held a Presidential Forum on HIV/AIDS. Hosted by President Olusegun Obasanjo…
Read moreA total of 51 wild polioviruses were isolated from 16 states in Nigeria in 2001. The virus is responsible for cases of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP). 33 of these were Type 1 while 18 were Type 3. Results of 20 other isol…
Read moreThe World Health Organization (WHO) is to spend about =N= 2.7 million this year to support State Epidemiology teams to implement Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) activities in the country. This was dis…
Read moreTHE INCIDENT An armoury at the Ikeja military cantonment in Lagos, Nigeria, containing "high calibre bombs" went up in flames at about 6.00 pm (local time) on Sunday, 27th January 2002, resulting in a series of ex…
Read moreEpidemiologists from WHO Africa and Eastern Mediterranean regions meet in Accra to discuss surveillance of diseases in the two regions 01 February 2002 -- Epidemiologists and Experts meeting in Accra to assess progres…
Read moreAbuja – 04 May 2021- When health teams discovered pockets of vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreaks in seven states in Nigeria (Lagos, Delta, Bayelsa, Zamfara, Niger, Sokoto and Kebbi), national and state authorities in co…
Read moreOsogbo, 4 October, 2022 - At a prevalence rate 8.1%, Nigeria continues to have a high burden of hepatitis B as an estimated 20 million of its people are chronically infected
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