Nigeria has commenced the process to be certified polio-free nation by 2020, having gone through three years without recording any case of wild polio virus. Nigeria...
The African Regional Office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that malaria-related deaths in the region have dropped from 555,000 to 403,000 between year...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it has shipped 900,000 doses of oral cholera vaccine to Mozambique, where access to clean drinking water is a key...
With Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) affecting 1.58 billion people globally, 39 per cent of whom live in Africa, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for...
The World Health Organisation, (WHO), on Sunday, said it has increase its efforts to support West African countries, in the ongoing Lassa fever outbreak. This was...
Immunisation experts have expressed worry over what they described as stagnation of immunisation coverage in Sub-Sahara Africa, saying in the past five years, the coverage has...
As part of efforts to combat and enhance the quality of cancer data in the country, a non-governmental organisation, Medic Aid Cancer Foundation has proffered ways...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has expressed concern over antibiotics resistance, warning that nothing less than global health security is at stake when antibiotics are misused....
Established in 1948, the World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) whose priority is public health. It contributes to promoting...
Nigeria and the rest of the world recently marked World Rabies Day, a day set aside by the international public health community to raise awareness on...
The Executive Director, Edo State Agency for the Control of Aids (EDOSACA), Flora Oyakhilome, has praised Governor Godwin Obaseki’s repositioning of the agency, noting that the...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has in collaboration with the World Bank Group launched the “Global Preparedness Monitoring Board”, a mechanism that will regularly monitor and...
This year’s World Malaria Day coincides with activities to commemorate the 70th anniversary of World Health Organisation (WHO). The Global Malaria Programme is marking the global...
Nearly one billion people will be vaccinated against yellow fever in 27 high-risk African countries by 2026, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said. The vaccination will...
The World Health Organisation WHO), yesterday, presented its 2018/2019 programme budget of $178million for the Nigerian health sector to the federal government. The document was jointly...
MUYIWA OYINLOLA in this report writes on some of the post election challenges of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in...
Nigeria’s outstanding police officer, DCP Abba Kyari has excelled in many investigations he has taken on and in so doing,...
In this concluding part of the Special Report which enters the third day today, LEADERSHIP highlights the sectors where the...
Maryam Ali Adamu is the chief executive officer of Aljism Skincare Products, a 100 per cent organic skincare products company...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila , has assured the internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Katsina State...
