Health

On 25 April, three West African countries = Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Benin – rolled out, in thousands, doses of an anti-malaria vaccine for infants between 5 and 17 months old. The rollout began five months after the World Health...

The UN health agency, World Health organisation (WHO), says the H5NI avian influenza virus has so far shown no signs of adapting to allow human-to-human transmission. So far, one human case has been reported in the United States since the...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has published the first global guidelines to prevent bloodstream and other infections caused by the use of catheters placed in minor blood vessels during medical procedures. The organisation made this known in a statement on...

The Dangote Cement company has launched a malaria intervention programme for host communities in Okpella, Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State. With the launch, the cement manufacturing company has begun to administer free anti-malaria treatments to residents in...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said the country has recorded 857 confirmed cases and 156 deaths of Lassa fever across 28 states of the federation from January to 28 April. NCDC, in its latest Lassa fever situation...

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has said Nigeria’s failure to cater adequately for the sexual and reproductive rights of young citizens is impeding Nigeria’s efforts to prevent the spread of HIV. The UNAIDS’ Deputy Executive Director of...

AstraZeneca, a British-Swedish pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, has announced that it is withdrawing its COVID-19 vaccine, Vaxzevria, worldwide. According to the multinational pharmaceutical company, the vaccine is being withdrawn because it can no longer compete with updated COVID-19 vaccines, which...

The Adamawa Government has extended the resumption of primary and secondary schools for the third term academic session to 13 May to enable the government to vaccinate children against measles. The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education and...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has said Namibia, a Southern African country, is the first high-burden nation globally to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of both HIV and Hepatitis B. The global health body disclosed this in a statement on Monday. WHO said...

To improve Nigeria’s fight against malaria morbidity and mortality, Nigeria’s Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Friday hosted key health players and experts to reevaluate its approach and strategies. The event themed: “Ministerial Roundtable Meeting: Rethinking Malaria Elimination in Nigeria,”...