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ABUJA - The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) is currently meeting key market players in sanitation across West and Central Africa in Abuja. The meeting aims to promote access to sanitation commodities across the region. The meeting…

• Expresses concerns over global rate of antibiotic resistance ABUJA - The World Health Organization, WHO, has warned of dangers associated with diabetes. WHO said persons living with the disease may go blind, suffer kidney failure,…

DAKAR, Senegal, November 13, 2018/ -- To mark the World Pneumonia Day, civil society organizations from Africa and Haiti are asking their governments to step-up to eradicate Pneumonia which is responsible for more child mortalities than any…

President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Bill for an Act to establish the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). This new Act which will establish NCDC as a full-fledged parastatal, will also ensure that its valuable work is…

The Federation of African Medical Students’ Associations General Assembly (FAMSAGA) will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in grand style by hosting its first ever health conference at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria from the November…

A South Africa-based Nigerian physiotherapist has announced plans to provide on-call services to the public for a wide range of ailment requiring physiotherapy. In as press release, Prof. Efe Useh who practised in Nigeria as a…

ABUJA - The Federal Government has inaugurated the Governing Council for the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria, MDCN. The inauguration, done last Friday, followed months of protests by the Nigerian Medical Association that its members…

• Says nation in ‘demographic trouble’ with its uncontrolled births ABUJA - Nigeria has recorded 58 million increase in its population since it last conducted its population census in 2006, the Association for the Advancement of…

• NHO, in collaboration with Roche, holds 2018 WDD Media Round table Round Table Faculty (L-R): Accu-Chek Strategic Account Manager, Roche Products Limited Diabetes Care, Mrs Folasade Olufemi-Ajayi, Regional Sales Manager, Mr. Mubarak…

Every 12 minutes, Nigeria looses one woman to due to complications of pregnancy and this, according to WHO, UNICEF and UNFPA, resulted in the death of 58,000 women, in 2015 alone during childbirth. These startling figures were released…