Top Ten News Items on Health, 10 March 2017
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FG explains plans to upgrade seven cancer centres across Nigeria. Eight years after raising billions, Turai Yar’Adua’s Cancer Centre remains abandoned, overtaken…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 03 March 2017
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Hope dims for cancer patients as radiotherapy machines break down nationwide. How Twitter posts may have cost Nigeria’s former minister top position…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 24th February 2017
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Nigeria’s Mohammed Pate, two other candidates shortlisted for Global Fund’s ED post. Health Minister Inaugurates Statutory Committees for National Health Act. Minister…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 17th February 2017
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FG approves new National Health Policy. FG Signs Seventy Million Euro EU Support For Health . Nigeria to benefit from MacArthur foundation’s…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 10th February 2017
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NACA, NCDC dismiss HIV/AIDS cure claims by Nigerian Professor. NASS to increase 2017 health sector budget to N1.1trn — Tejuoso. HMOs return…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 03 February 2017
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Jos communities reject polio vaccine, want food instead. Health minister denies knowledge of HIV cure by Abia professor. Reps to earmark more…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 27th January 2017
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Nigerian govt delivers N4.3 billion health, nutrition items to north-east. Nigeria does not know number of people with HIV, says minister. FG…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 20 January 2017
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Lassa Fever: NCDC confirms cases in 7 states, advices on preparedness by hospitals and healthcare workers. NHIS covers cancer, other tertiary ailments…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 13 January 2017
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Nigeria flags off scheme to revive 10,000 primary health care centres. Millions of children to receive measles vaccine in north-eastern Nigeria. President…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 06 January 2017
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Final trial results confirm Ebola vaccine provides high protection against disease. INTERVIEW: Nigeria’s health minister speaks on resident doctors, polio, tuberculosis, budget,…
Top Ten Health News Items in 2016
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Government of Nigeria reports 2 wild polio cases, first since July 2014. Lassa Fever Outbreak: 41 Nigerians killed in 10 states –…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 16 December 2016
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Full impact of devastated health services in north-eastern Nigeria revealed by WHO report. New WHO Country Representative formally assumes duties in Nigeria….
Top Ten News Items on Health, 09 December 2016
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Humanitarian emergency directors call for US$1 billion to meet the needs of 6.9 million people in Nigeria’s North East. Reps stop NHIS’s…
Top Ten News Items on Health, 02 December 2016
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FG launches Guidelines For HIV/AIDS Prevention. World AIDS Day: US donates $400m, urges FG To invest in health. 800 Nigerians die daily…