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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The federal government and the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), on Friday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to enhance oncology care in the country. The Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Ali Pate, signed the MoU, along...
The Nigerian government has taken possession of 72 Toyota Hilux operational vehicles and other essential equipment to support the country’s HIV and Tuberculosis (TB) national responses and enhance the country’s healthcare system.
Represented by the Minister of State for Health,...
