Nigeria News

Abuja, 01 June 2015-The World Health Organization (WHO), in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) and National Primary Healthcare Agency (NPHCDA), conducted a two week monitoring and programme support mission to Abia and Niger States on the Rapid Access Expansion (RAcE)   2015 project from the 12—22 May as part of routine activities to ensure quality of implementation.

Kano, Nigeria 09 June 2015 - Newly sworn-in Governors of Kano and Sokoto, Nigeria’s very high risk polio states, have promised to surpass the gains recorded by their  predecessors  in a renewed commitment to stamp out the paralyzing disease from the traditional ‘polio sanctuaries’.

The latest case of wild polio virus (WPV) in Nigeria was reported from Sumaila LGA of Kano state on 24 July 2014 while Sokoto had circulating vaccine derived polioviruses in the environment in 2014.

Abuja, 11 June 2015 - The World Health Organization (WHO) has joined the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and United Nation’s Population Fund (UNFPA) in the grant signing ceremony of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) of funded humanitarian programme titled “Integrated Humanitarian Assistance for North East Nigeria” held in Abuja on 11 June 2015.

Abuja, 13 June 2015 - The World Health Organization (WHO) has coordinated immunization activities to support Adamawa State to immunize 68,495 under five children from 687 previously unreached settlements due to insecurity during the 6-9 June, 2015 sub-National Immunization Plus Days (sNIPDs), out of which, 646 were receiving oral polio vaccine (OPV) for the first time.

Abuja, 14 June 2015 - States in the North West of Nigeria comprising  Jigawa,  Katsina, Kebbi and Sokoto, sharing international borders with the Republic of Niger, have administered oral polio vaccine to 24, 952 children aged  0-59 months during the sub-National Immunization Plus Days (sNIPDs) conducted from 6-9 June 2015 to boost the immunity of populations living in border settlements.

Abuja, 15 June 2015 - Nigeria joined the rest of the world in marking the  2015 World Blood Donor Day, which commenced  with a procession along Shehu Shagari Way in  Abuja  dubbed “walk for life”, followed by a press briefing  on Saturday, 13th June 2015. The procession was led by the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Health, Mr. Linus Awute.

Abuja, 22 June 2015 - The World Health Organization (WHO) in Nigeria has successfully concluded two separate workshops in Abuja from 15-20 June, 2015. The workshops addressed different themes aimed at building capacity towards supporting the country in its drive to provide the required human resources for the attainment of the highest level of health by all Nigerians; and to document best practices that are contributing towards the goal of achieving interruption of polio transmission in Nigeria.

Abuja, 24 June 2015 - The Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the Governor of Yobe State on health, Dr Bello Kawuwa has lauded the effort made by the teams engaged by the World Health Organization (WHO) Hard-to-Reach project towards reaching children and women in areas with difficult terrains, including populations in security compromised areas of the state.

Enugu, Nigeria 07 July 2015 - As at 01 July 2015, the five states in the south east geo-political zone of Nigeria, namely Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo, have completed the introduction of the inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) into their respective state routine immunization (RI). The zone was included in the second phase of the IPV introduction which began in May 2015.

Abuja, 08 July 2015 - The third generation of World Health Organization (WHO) Country Cooperation Strategy (CCSlll) 2014-2019, has been launched by the permanent secretary in the Federal Ministry of Health, Mr. Linus Awute in Abuja on 07 July, 2015.

The five year CCSlll will focus on five strategic objectives: strengthening the health systems; promoting and scaling up priority interventions; addressing communicable and non-communicable diseases; health emergencies; and promoting partnership coordination and resource mobilization.