One year after the internal declaration of Grade 3 emergency on the northeastern Nigeria, the World Health Organization (WHO) is conducting a comprehensive review of its humanitarian response to address health needs of n…
Read moreOsogbo, 08 September 2017-To protect over four million people living in Osun, South-west Nigeria, Global Fund through Society for Family Health, in collaboration with Federal Ministries of Health and World Health Organiz…
Read moreMaiduguri, 08 September 2017-With more than 1000 suspected and confirmed cases of cholera including 30 deaths in Borno state as of 07 Sept 2017, World Health Organization (WHO) has intensified its response efforts to con…
Read moreMakurdi, 07 September 2017 - “Sunday the 27 of August is not a day I will forget in a hurry. It was as if the heavens opened their doors and it did not only rain, it poured. Visibility was bad and with the torrential rai…
Read moreBenin, 31 August 2017-In an effort to reduce the unacceptably high measles disease incidence in Nigeria, the government with support from partners have planned to conduct a Measles follow up campaign targeting children 9…
Read moreAbuja, 31 August 2017-The World Health Organization (WHO) has donated equipment to the National Emergency Routine Immunization Coordination Centre (NERICC) to improve responsiveness in the resolution of routine immunizat…
Read moreMaiduguri, 29 August, 2017 - The World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners are moving swiftly to help health authorities contain a cholera outbreak in a camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in n…
Read moreAbuja, 23 August, 2017 – The Chairman, International Polio Plus Committee (IPPC), Mr Michael McGovern, has disclosed that Rotary International has spent close to 1.7 billion US dollars on polio eradication with most of t…
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