Health in Nigeria
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BOTSWANA, 2017/07/29
The World Health Organisation (WHO), has commended the African region for making significant evolution in malaria control in the last five years.
Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO Regional Director for Africa, in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, said malaria incidence and mortality rates had declined by 42 % and 66 % respectively between 2000 and 2015.
Moeti made the commendation in Kigali, Rwanda, while speaking at the Initial Africa Health Forum, launched by WHO, Africa and the Government of Rwanda.
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BOTSWANA, 2017/07/16
You can meet the majority interesting people at conferences. If you can make your way through the sea of people to get to them. The initial Africa Health Forum organised by the World Health Organisation African region was no different - hundreds and hundreds of enthusiastic participants filling the Kigali Convention Centre in Rwanda, determined to find their way to universal healthcare (UHC) on the continent.
The forum promised to examine WHO AFRO's vision for health and development across the continent, explore concrete ways for partners to contribute to the work of the organization, meet the challenges that young people face, and provide a platform to talk about innovative strategies for the public health challenges that Africa just can't seem to shake.
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NIGERIA, 2017/04/30
A drug used to combat malaria in pregnant women could as well treat sexually transmitted infections (STIs), a study shows.
Results of the study by researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine, a medicine recommended during antenatal care visit for intermittent preventive treatment (IPTp) of malaria in pregnant women in malaria-endemic areas could cut the risk of getting STIs such as gonorrhoea, chlamydia, trichomoniasis, and bacterial vaginosis.
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NIGERIA, 2016/09/06
An emergency polio vaccination campaign aimed at reaching 25 million children this year has begun in parts of Nigeria newly freed from Boko Haram Islamic extremists, with fears that a lot of additional cases of the crippling disease will likely be found.
Two toddlers discovered last month were Nigeria's initial reported polio cases in additional than two years, putting the world on alert just months next the African continent was declared free of the disease.
One member of the Rotary Club's "End Polio Presently" drive said he almost cried at the same time as he got the news. It was a major blow to world efforts to stamp out polio, which persists in only two other nations, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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NIGERIA, 2016/07/25
In Nigeria, if we’re diligent and careful, we may at no time see an extra child lose the use of their legs to polio.
Thirty years ago, millions of children went unvaccinated against a preventable disease that persisted and paralysed in nearly each country in the world. Since again, the number of unvaccinated children has dropped precipitously. While we still have work to do to ensure not even one child is missed, the biggest challenge Nigeria has to contend with presently is complacency.
On 24 July 2016, Nigeria reached two years without a case of wild polio. That is commendable. But if reaching this landmark has left a lot of euphoric, total eradication would be historic. If Nigeria and the rest of Africa can make it to July 2017 without a case of polio, we will be officially polio free. To do this, we have to consolidate the evolution we have by presently made, and vigorously invest in our collective capacity to contain and wipe out the disease wherever it may linger.
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BOTSWANA, 2016/07/20
The United Nations Children Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has disclosed that despite successes chalked in the fight against Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), a lot additional needed to be done particularly in Africa.
UNICEF’s Executive Director, Anthony Lake, revealed that adolescents were generally dying of AIDS at an alarming rate and that the disease remained the leading cause of death in Africa.
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NIGERIA, 2016/01/12
Senate, the upper chamber of Nigeria’s legislative body, has directed the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board – JAMB – to extend the validity of university entrance exam results to three years, and to stop assigning students to institutions for which they have not applied.
Senators believe that holding – in a well-secured data bank – the results of would-be students who write the exam but do not fasten a place, would allow tertiary institutions to shop around for strong students and reduce the costs for candidates who sit the exam year next year.
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NIGERIA, 2015/10/31
On the heels of historic success against polio in Nigeria and across the continent of Africa, Rotary gives an additional US$6.9 million boost to Nigeria to support immunization activities and surveillance spearheaded by the World Polio Eradication Initiative.
This was the year at the same time as three became two, with the World Health Organization removing Nigeria from the inventory of polio-endemic nations, leaving just Afghanistan and Pakistan remaining. With no case of wild poliovirus (WPV) reported since 24 July 2014, additional than a year has passed with no samples testing positive for WPV across all country. This succcess is a tribute to the hard work of countless health care workers, traditional leaders, over 400,000 volunteers and the government who managed to turn the programme in Nigeria around by reaching over 45 million children repeatedly with polio vaccines.
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NIGERIA, 2015/10/11
Contrary to claims of an Ebola outbreak in Calabar, Cross River National, Nigeria is still a World Health Organization-certified Ebola free country, the Federal Ministry of Health has said.
Linus Awute, the permanent secretary of the ministry, said there was no basis for rumours of from presently on an extra outbreak of the virus.
"We are as well going to organize a press conference today. You know the news and rumours of Ebola in Calabar... ," Mr. Awute told PREMIUM TIMES over the phone on Friday.
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NIGERIA, 2015/09/29
Nigeria will continue to keep vigil over polio to make sure that the virus does not re-emerge in the West African country, a presidency statement said Sunday.
The African country was declared polio-free on Saturday by the World Health Organization, following the absence of any case of the wild polio virus since July 24, 2014.
In spite of the succcess, surveillance activities and immunization will continue across Nigeria to keep the country polio-free at all times, the presidency statement, signed by presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, said.
