Nigeria News

Abuja, 20 October 2016 - The Governor of Taraba in the north east has directed all immunization implementers and stakeholders in the state to support government by ensuring that all migrant children and those found in border settlements are fully immunized against polio.

Abuja, 20 October 2016 - Nigeria’s Minister of State for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire has restated the Federal Government’s resolve to continue providing effective leadership and mobilizing political and financial support by state governments in the north east to immediately stop the resurgence of the wild polio virus (WPV) circulation in areas at risk of re-infection.

Maiduguri, 18 October 2016 - The Borno state Commissioner for Health, Dr Haruna Mshelia has described the efforts of the surveillance network in reporting acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) cases, including those that were later confirmed as wild polio viruses (WPVs) from insurgents’ enclaves, as “exceptional display of gallantry worthy of recognition”.

WHO and partners are supporting the Borno State Government to respond to the humanitarian crisis in north-eastern Nigeria, where some 3.7 million people are in urgent need of essential health services. The actual numbers of people requiring life-saving help may be much higher as ongoing insecurity means many areas are still inaccessible.

Abuja, 16 October 2015 - The World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the government, has recently intensified its efforts to reach the most marginalised, hard-to-reach and nomadic communities of the North Central region of the country.

Following the adoption of a blueprint, states of Nasarawa, Niger and Plateau are working assiduously to provide the required health interventions to pastoral nomadic populations in their respective states with a view to boost population immunity and improve disease surveillance. 

On 11 October 2016, WHO in collaboration with the State Ministry of Health delivered emergency medical supplies to an international NGO partner for distribution to facilities in Gwoza Local Government Area (LGA). The supplies are enough to treat 20,000 people for three months.

October 2016 - The polio outbreak response in Nigeria and across the Lake Chad basin is being run within the context of a broader humanitarian emergency response, as north-east Nigeria is classified within WHO as a Grade 3 emergency. But what does this actually mean?

Abuja, 07 October 2016 - Worried by the increasing malnutrition cases among children and adolescents girls in Kaduna state, the wife of Kaduna state Governor Hajiya Ummi El Rufai has sought for the assistance of World Health Organisation (WHO) to tackle the rising cases of malnutrition in the state.

WHO and partners are supporting the Borno State Government to respond to the humanitarian crisis in north-eastern Nigeria, where some 3.7 million people are in urgent need of essential health services. The actual numbers of people requiring life-saving help may be much higher as ongoing insecurity means many areas are still inaccessible.

7 October 2016 - The World Health Organization is supporting the State Minsitry of Health in Borno State to deploy community resource persons (CORPs) trained on community integrated management of childhood Illness (cIMCI) and provision of integrated community case management of childhood illnesses (iCCM) to liberated areas of Borno.