WAHO and Nigeria CDC team up to conduct a Yellow Fever Simulation Exercise in Lagos
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The West African Health Organization (WAHO), in its efforts to contribute to the capacity building of ECOWAS Member States in the area…
NCDC Intensifies Response to the Lassa Fever Outbreak
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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has intensified its response to the Lassa Fever outbreak as the number of confirmed Lassa…
ECOWAS Regional Centre for Surveillance and Disease Control starts operations
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The West African Health Organization (WAHO) has announced the historic launch of the West Africa Regional Centre for Surveillance and Disease Control…
World is failing newborn babies, says UNICEF
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Situation in Nigeria is improving but progress is very slow Global deaths of newborn babies remain alarmingly high, particularly among the world’s…
Happy Valentine’s Day! Love Wisely, Share Love not HIV!!!
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Press Release by the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) The Director General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS…
Reported Cluster of Lassa Fever Among Health Care Workers in Ebonyi State
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On Sunday the 14th of January 2018, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) was notified of four cases of Lassa fever…
Healthcare Leadership Academy holds Graduation Ceremony, launches Alumni Association
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The Healthcare Leadership Academy (HLA), held the graduation ceremony for the 2017 cohort of the Healthcare Executives Leadership Program (HELP) and its…
Chatham House Paper: Continued medical detentions are ‘degrading and abusive’
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A new Chatham House paper suggests medical detentions – where hospitals forcibly detain patients unable to pay their medical bills – are…
Nigeria commences 2017 World AIDS Day commemoration
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Events to commemorate the 2017 World AIDS Day have commenced with a call on all stakeholders to work towards realising the right…
Monkeypox: Six more cases confirmed - Minister of State for Health calls for calm
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The Honourable Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has announced laboratory confirmation of six additional cases among the suspected cases…
Press Briefing by the President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Pharm. Ahmed I. Yakasai on the 90th Annual National Conference of the PSN
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Press briefing by the president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN), Pharm. Ahmed I. Yakasai, FPSN, FNAPHARM, FNIM, on the 90th…
Government confirms three cases of Monkeypox in Bayelsa
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The Federal Government has confirmed three cases of Monkeypox in Bayelsa. The Minister Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, made this announcement at…
Monkey Pox Outbreak Hits Bayelsa State
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On the 5th of October, 2017 released a press statement on a suspected Monkeypox outbreak in Bayelsa state. Read press release below:…
Case of Yellow Fever confirmed in Nigeria; Government starts Response
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The Hon Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, confirms a case of Yellow Fever in a young girl in Oke Owa Community, Ifelodun…