Jos, 26 January 2018 - His Excellency, Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State says the World Health Organization (WHO) occupies a central position in the development of the health system in Nigeria and improvement of the…
Read moreThe Government of Nigeria will launch a mass vaccination campaign to prevent the spread of yellow fever on Thursday (January 25) with support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners. More than 25 million people will be vaccinated throughout 2018, in the largest yellow fever vaccination drive in the country’s history.
Read moreAbuja, 22 January 2018 -The World Health Organization (WHO) has handed over 853 motorcycles to local government areas (LGAs) and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to ease transportation challenges faced by Di…
Read moreAbuja, 11 January, 2018, In an effort to strengthen the longtime partnership between WHO and NAFDAC, the new Director-General (DG) of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Profess…
Read moreMaiduguri, 15 December 2017 - For the first time since insurgency stymied healthcare services in the North-east, the affected population now have access to mental health services at primary health care (PHC) facilit…
Read moreMaiduguri,11 December 2017 - Following the successful implementation of the first oral cholera vaccination campaign (OCV) in Nigeria, more than 3500 team members, 80 independent monitors and 50 ward focal persons ar…
Read moreAbuja, 04 December 2017 - Reactive vaccination is continuing in high risk states to contain a Yellow fever outbreak in Nigeria. The International Coordinating Group (ICG) on vaccine provision for yellow fever has provide…
Read moreAbuja, 29 November 2017 - Nigeria has the second highest burden of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection in the world. With about 3.2 million people living with HIV, the country requires all three tiers of go…
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