Abuja — On the 25th day of August 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) Africa region was certified polio free by the Africa Regional Certification Commission for Polio Eradication (ARCC), as Nigeria achieved the wild polio virus free status. Professor Oyewale Tomori, a leading virologist who helped spearhead Nigeria’s effort to kick out polio from the […]
By Royal Uche Lagos — Chichi Okafor, a 30-year-old Nigerian woman, unexpectedly became pregnant again before her daughter turned six months old. Although Okafor knew about using condoms to prevent unwanted pregnancies, she felt powerless. “My husband does not like it, so we resorted to the withdrawal method,” Okafor says. “I am three months pregnant. […]
ANALYSIS By Janusz Paweska and Michelle J. Groome As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on in Africa amid insufficient vaccination rollout, viral haemorrhagic fever has again raised its head. This adds to public health turmoil on the continent where resources to respond to emerging and re-emerging epidemic prone zoonotic diseases remain limited. In the first week […]
By Joseph Erunke Abuja — The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has said a total of 120 children in Nigeria have been infected with environmental poliovirus. The children, according to the agency of the United Nations,are not in particular region but scattered across different parts of the country. UNICEF Country Representative, Peter Hawkins, revealed this […]
Dodoma — The minister of health Dr Dorothy Gwajima has on Monday launched mobile health facilities that are aimed multiplying efforts in the fight against TB. Dr. Gwajima received five mobile clinics, 160 motorcycles, and 179 ECG machines that are to be distributed in five zones so as to reach out to people especially in […]
