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UNICEF REPORT: 270,000 Nigerian Children Living With HIV

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said no fewer than 270,000 children aged 0 to 14 years w…

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Drug Abuse: PSN Seeks National Rehabilitation Centre

Worried by the alarming rate of drug abuse in Nigeria, the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN)…

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Aisha Buhari Expresses Concern Over Maternal, Child Mortality

Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, has said that the high rate of maternal and child mortality i…

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Edo Set to Develop Health Master Plan

The Governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has revealed plans to constitute a council on healt…

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20-yr-Old NYSC Member Quarantined in Benue Over Monkey Pox

A 20-year-old National Youth Service Corp, NYSC, member serving in Benue State (names withheld), h…

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Bauchi Community, Govt Differ Over ‘Strange Disease’ Claim

Communities in Warji local government of Bauchi state have faulted the chairman of Bauchi State Pr…

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FG Flags Off Intervention Project In Health

The Federal Ministry of Health has flagged off a special health intervention project which is mean…

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GAMSU, GE Healthcare Train Nigerian Nurses, Midwives

To imrpove skills of Nigerians nurses and midwives, GE Healthcare in partnership with the Gamaliel…

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Ugandan Nurses, Midwives Call Off Planned Strike Over Low Pay

Nurses and midwives in Uganda’s public health institutions called off a planned strike over …

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Gaidam Canvasses Attitude Change, Receives Healthcare Reforms Award

Governor Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe State has called for attitude change among healthcare professional…

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New NAFDAC DG Resumes Office, Talks Tough On Fight Against Counterfeit Products

The new Director General, National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), P…

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Less Than 10 % Young People Know Their HIV Status in Kaduna – UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday that less than 10 per cent of you…

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Scientists Record Major HIV Breakthroughs

* 11% sufferers in poor countries risk becoming resistant to AIDS-prevention drugs, dying from con…

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Fish Meals Protects Against Sight Loss

Eating plenty of salmon, sardines and mackerel may protect against sight loss, new research reveal…

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How Poverty Compounds Poor Medical Treatment

It is no longer news that many Nigerians who are not able of pay their hospital bill after treatme…

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Kogi Doctors Threaten Strike Over Old Agreements

Doctors in Kogi have threatened to resume in two weeks a strike they suspended in June, if the sta…

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Wife of the Vice President Commissions Cancer Equipment

Wife of the Vice president, Her Excellency, Mrs. Dalapo Osinbajo has commissioned a new State of t…

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Nigerian Govt Sets Aside N28 Billion to Fund Primary Health Care Intervention in 2018

The Nigerian government has initiated a N28 billion health fund that will target the revitalisatio…

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GAVI Approves Support for New Typhoid Vaccine

The Vaccine Alliance, GAVI, has approved a support window to enable countries introduce typhoid co…

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LASU Sacks College Of Medicine Provost Over Financial Improprieties

The Lagos State University has suspended Babatunde Solagberu, the provost of the LASU College of M…

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