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Lagos government introduces new WASH policy

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The Lagos State Government has unveiled its new Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) policy, aimed at improving access to clean water and sanitation. The state government said the policy was in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)...
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Official: Ebonyi Registers 4,000 Pregnant Women in Health Insurance

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Ebonyi State Health Insurance Agency says it has enrolled not less than 4,000 pregnant women across the 13 local government areas in the state in its health insurance scheme. Divine Igwe, the agency’s executive secretary, said this in Abakaliki while...
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Nigerian government improves medical centre and establishes teaching hospital at university

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President Bola Tinubu has granted approval for the upgrade of the Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Birnin Kebbi to a teaching hospital for the College of Health Sciences, Federal University Birnin Kebbi (FUBK). As stated by the institution’s Head, Information and...
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Kenya’s vulnerable youth targeted by organ harvesting syndicates

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The price of a kidney in Kenya? Just under $1,000 plus a motorbike. That is how 30-year-old Joseph Japiny, from Oyugis town in Homa Bay County in western Kenya, got his boda boda – a motorbike taxi he uses...
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UNAIDS sets target to decrease AIDS-related deaths to 250,000 by 2025

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As part of efforts to end AIDS as a public threat, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has set specific targets by 2025 concerning people who inject drugs. UNAIDS under its Global AIDS Strategy 2021/2026 sets an overall...
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Nigerian journalists receive training on controversies surrounding “gene drives” from group

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A group- Renevlyn Development Initiative (RDI) on Friday held a training for Nigerian journalists on the controversies surrounding the ‘gene drives’ research organisations that allegedly target Africans as “guinea pigs.” The training, the organisers said, was aimed at equipping journalists...
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Nigerian government reaffirms commitment to promote local manufacturing

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The Minister of State for Health, Tunji Alausa, has called for a total ban on the importation of medical syringes into the country to encourage local production. Mr Alausa, who visited the Afrimedical Manufacturing and Supplies Limited Syringe factory in...
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Official report shows Kano treated 36,843 cases of Tuberculosis in 2022.

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Kano State treated 36,843 Tuberculosis (TB) cases in 2022, the state government has said. The state’s Commissioner for Health, Abubakar Yusuf, stated this on Saturday at an event commemorating the 2024 World TB Day. The event was held at Muhammad...
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Borno communities face challenges with staffing and drug availability despite well-built infrastructure

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The sunrise over Zabarmari village was beautiful in Jere Local Government Area of Borno State, but it offered no comfort to Fatima Sani, a 22-year-old woman in labour. Her baby was coming, but the nearest health centre – her only...
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28 children hospitalized, four dead in Kano

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A fresh outbreak of diphtheria disease has reportedly killed four children in villages in the Mingibir Local Government Area of Kano State. 28 others were said to have been hospitalised, according to a statement issued on Thursday by the Information...
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