Professor Chukwuma Soludo, the Governor of Anambra State, Nigeria, has initiated comprehensive tuberculosis control programmes through the state’s Ministry of Health. These efforts are being carried…
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The National Coordinator of the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP), Dr. Godwin Ntadom, has announced the introduction of a new malaria vaccine at a media briefing…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that in 2022, more than 2.5 million individuals in Africa contracted tuberculosis (TB), equivalent to one person every 13…
Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council has endorsed the final report aimed at enhancing the nation’s basic healthcare services. Mr. Tunji Alausa, the Minister of State for Health,…
Since the establishment of the Central Bank of Nigeria’s N10.3 trillion intervention funds, the Nigerian healthcare sector has received only N141.64 billion, accounting for a meagre…
A team of surgeons has successfully transplanted a genetically engineered pig kidney into a living human for the first time, a US hospital announced Thursday. On…
The House of Representatives Committee on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Control has called Minister of Health and Social Development Muhammed Pate on allegations of misuse of…
The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) in Anambra State has issued a press release following an emergency executive council meeting.The meeting was called in response to a…
President Bola Tinubu has approved the establishment of an Africa Centres for Disease Control (Africa-CDC) Regional Coordinating Centre (RCC) in Nigeria, demonstrating the country’s commitment to…
President Bola Tinubu has appointed Dr. Temitope Ilori as the new Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), making her the first…