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Nigeria vaccinates over 45 million people against yellow fever during the COVID-19 pandemic.
New films show the impact of yellow fever outbreaks in Taraba State, and the global efforts to eliminate yellow fever epidemics by 2026.
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Adamawa State strengthens awareness campaign on Monkeypox
Yola, 3 August, 2022 - As the threat of monkeypox looms globally, public health authorities in Adamawa state have intensified awareness campaigns to control the ongoing outbreak in Nigeria. The State Ministry of…
Read moreBorno state launches awareness campaign to commemorate 2022 World Breastfeeding Week
Maiduguri, 3 August, 2022 - In a bid to create awareness, promote and sustain exclusive breastfeeding, especially for infant’s health and survival, Borno state government through the wife of the Executive Governor of Bor…
Read more90% of people living with HIV access treatment
Adetimi Bayo lives with HIV in a heart of poverty in remote Nigeria. Being remote and being poor can mean out of reach of help and hope. When Nigeria decided to change its AIDS story, it changed the life story of thousands of people like Bayo.
Read moreWHO supports Nigeria in operationalizing the National Health Insurance Authority Act 2022.
Abuja, 1 August, 2022 - The World Health Organization Country Representative (WR), Walter Kazadi Mulombo, has underscored the organization's commitment to supporting Nigeria in fast-tracking the operationalization of the…
Read moreNigeria seeks to eliminate severe and often lethal mouth disease
As Chief Medical Director at the Sokoto Noma Children’s Hospital in the northwest corner of Nigeria, Dr Shafiu Isah dedicates his days to treating children suffering from a neglected disease that few people have even heard of.
Read moreLiving with Hepatitis-Day in the life of a patient
Abuja, 28 July, 2022 - After being diagnosed with hepatitis B in February 2021, Mrs Titilope Dada, 30, wept heavily for weeks, thinking it was a death sentence. She was diagnosed with hepatitis B at a health fac…
Read moreIncreasing COVID-19 vaccination in northeast Nigeria
Maiduguri – Hajara Maimuna Idi is sitting under a tree at the Gubio Road settlement for internally displaced people, in Borno State, northeast Nigeria. She is baffled by the reluctance of her fellow residents t…
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