The World Health Organisation (WHO) has launched a social media campaign to raise awareness on mental health illness, believed to account for up to 11 per cent of risk factors associated with suicide. WHO, in a statement on Thursday, stated that Africa had the highest suicide rate in the...
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The Ekiti Government will vaccinate no fewer than 320,000 children ages nine months and 59 months under the integrated measles campaign from Oct. 20 to Oct. 26. Mrs Omolabake Ogundola, the Deputy State Immunisation Officer, Primary Health Care Agency (PHC) made this known while briefing newsmen in Ado-Ekiti on...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has reported additional 41 new cases of Monkeypox disease between Aug. 29 and Sept. 4, from 12 states of the Federation. The NCDC via its official website on Sunday said that the 12 states were: Lagos (14), Abia (7), Imo (6), Ogun...
Gambia has ordered importers and shops to suspend sales of all brands of paracetamol syrup while the government investigates a suspected link between the medicine and the deaths of dozens of young children. Last Thursday, the west African country’s health service said it had launched the probe after a...
The World Health Organization has said that Nigeria has the highest death toll and confirmed cases of monkeypox in Africa. This was disclosed by WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, during a virtual press briefing tagged, ‘Road to defeating Meningitis by 2030’. Moeti said Nigeria recorded half...
The Federal Government, in partnership with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF), has inaugurated a National Roadmap on Hand Hygiene for All. The roadmap gives direction for collaborative efforts to implement the Sanitation and Hygiene programmes under the UN Sustainable Development Goal six....
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has announced 14 deaths in 10 states from suspected cases of yellow fever between January to July 2022. The NCDC stated this via its official website on Sunday. It said the affected states included Abia (one), Bayelsa (one), Benue (one),...
A recent study has found that China’s first self-developed HPV vaccine, Cecolin, can offer female adults full immunity against two human papillomavirus (HPV). A group of Chinese researchers analysed data from 66-month follow-up visits as part of the bivalent vaccine’s Phase 3 clinical trial. They found that its efficacy...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says the world has recorded one million COVID-19 deaths in 2022, a ”tragic milestone” that must lead to more people being vaccinated against the disease. Dr Tedros Ghebreyesus said this on Thursday during an online media briefing. “We cannot say we are learning to...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called for countries to improve access to two lifesaving Ebola medicines, in its first guidelines on the viral disease, published on Friday. The recommendation follows review and analysis of clinical trials for the monoclonal antibodies mAb114 (known as Ansuvimab or Ebanga) and REGN-EB3...
Zimbabwe ministry of health says measles outbreak has killed 80 children in the country since April. The ministry said in a statement that the outbreak had now spread nationwide, with a case fatality rate of 6.9 per cent. The ministry blamed church sect gatherings for the surge. Health Secretary,...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 60 new suspected cases of monkeypox in its latest situation report covering Aug. 1 to Aug. 7 in 18 states of the federation and Federal Capital Territory (FCT). In its epidemiological report made available to the News Agency of Nigeria...
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), has reported 24 additional monkeypox cases in seven days from across 12 states in the country. The NCDC reported the cases via its official website. It stated that a total of 157 positive infections of monkeypox were confirmed between January 1 and...
The Milk Booster, a company that produces lactation products that help increase breast milk supply, on Friday introduced the first MilkBank in Nigeria in commemoration of the 2022 World Breastfeeding Week. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the theme of the 2022 World Breastfeeding Week was :...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State First Lady, Dr. Falmata Zulum has lamented over the low rate of breastfeeding among women in the state, adding that the Boko Haram insurgency has been a major threat to the promotion of exclusive breastfeeding in communities across the state. Dr. Zulum...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the world is currently facing a new outbreak of “unexplained acute hepatitis infections” affecting children. WHO Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus gave the warning on Thursday in his message to mark this year’s World Hepatitis Day, globally observed on July 28 annually....
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The World Health Organization (WHO) has taken some proactive and preventive measures to support the Borno State Government in the control and management of monkey pox, malaria, cholera and COVID-19 in Maiduguri Metropolis Council, Here, Mafa and Konduga LGAs of the state. These measures...
Accra/Brazzaville – Ghana has announced the country’s first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, after a World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre laboratory confirmed earlier results. The Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal received samples from each of the two patients from the southern Ashanti region of Ghana – both deceased and...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says 35 countries in five regions of the world have now reported more than 1,010 probable cases of unexplained severe acute hepatitis or liver inflammation in youngsters. According to a new update on Wednesday from the WHO, the number of the cases reported is...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says there is need to sustain the campaign against polio, warning that the disease is “very crafty.” Osinbajo gave the warning on Thursday at Presidential Villa, while receiving the Nigerian Biker, Kunle Adeyanju, who embarked on a polio-inspired charity ride from London to Lagos. Adeyanju,...