Lassa fever, otherwise called Lassa Hemorrhagic Fever (LHF), a deadly disease was first diagnosed in 1969 in the town of Lassa in Borno State, Nigeria. Since...
The plight of HIV Positive Mothers after being delivered of their babies has been near endemic, to say the least. It came to the fore recently...
The Federal Government has reiterated its commitment in strengthening the health sector towards achieving the global goal of eliminating HIV/AIDS by the year 2030. The health...
The Social Mobilisation and Technical Committee (SOMTEC) in Rivers State, has mapped out strategies to reactivate the body in its quest to check the trend of...
The Sickle Cell Foundation Nigeria (SCFN), and Sickle Cell Club, Lagos, have called for public support to help improve the lives of people with Sickle Cell...
The United Nations Popu lation Fund (UNFPA) says it has supported 6,214 women and girls in Nigeria with the provision of free fistula repair surgery. The...
A Consultant Paediatrician with University College Hospital, Ibadan, Dr Babatunde Ogunbosi, says that more than three million children worldwide die yearly of diarrhoea. Ogunbosi made the...
The Chief Medical Direc tor, Prof. Chris Bode, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, has called for synergy and respect among medical professionals for them to...
Kano State team leader, European Union Support Immunization Governance in Nigeria (EUSIGN), Dr Dayyabu Mohammed, has advised local food vendors in the state to ensure food...
A consultant urologist, Dr Ferdinand Nwamkpa, has decried the low number of urologists across the nation’s health facilities. Nwamkpa, who explained that theurologists are the class...