Health

The NHIS and a ministerial committee are to draft the framework for the health insurance scheme

The 90-90-90 target was to achieve three major HIV/AIDS target by 2020.

The Nigerian government launches five policies to tackle the disease burden.

U.S. pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech announced last week that their drug is 95 per cent effective...

The decrease in new cases last week might be as a result of the significant drop in the number of...

The study shows that there is a higher prevalence of cross-reactive antibodies against the coronavirus in the blood samples collected...

The Group Individual and Family Social Health Insurance Programme (GIFSHIP) will be run by NHIS

Although Nigeria’s Anti-Discrimination Act of 2014 frowns against the ill-treatment of PLHIV, the ACT is not fully implemented as cases...

The country has five years to the target set by Nigeria for ending open defecation nationwide.

As many as 62 per cent of uninfected children aged 6 to 16 years had antibodies, the age group in...

VSF says it distributed materials worth N2 billion in the first and second phases of the COVID-19 intervention

The World AIDS Day is celebrated December 1 every year to honour the people who have fallen to the disease...

Mr Ogbuagu’s ground-breaking research in the field of modified genetic code has catapulted him into the public eye.

The doctors plan to go on strike because the government is not giving them medical insurance.

The controversial Lagos plastic surgeon is also charged with failure to comply with a summons by The FCCPC.

The committee will generate strategies for the zcquisition, deployment and options for licenced production of the COVID-19 vaccines.

Fibroids can develop at any time during a woman’s childbearing years, the gynaecologist said.

The study also suggests that preparation of maize 'ogi' or pap with cheese whey increases its essential amino acid content

He is the third doctor to be kidnapped in Kogi in two months.

Despite the increased COVID-19 infections, however, Nigeria witnessed a significant reduction in deaths last week.

Nigeria has recorded at least 75 deaths from yellow fever in 2020.

About 246 more people tested positive for coronavirus in Nigeria on Saturday.

The number of people with access to pipe-borne water dropped to 18 million people in 2019 from 21 million in...

This week alone, about 20 new confirmed cases of Yellow Fever were reported in the nation.

Global Fund says it is investing $500 million over the next three years to fight TB in 11 African countries.