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Nigeria’s dependence on foreign aid created room for USAID — an organisation responsible for disbursing most US international aid -...

Given the US’ major contribution to aid, Trump’s cuts could push 5.7 million more Africans into extreme poverty next year.

To manage a cancer patient from diagnosis to stabilisation, one would need an average of N16 million to N20 million.

A few days before he left office, former Governor Lalong commissioned the Trauma Centre at the Riyom General Hospital.

Patrick Youssef, ICRC’s Head of Africa Region, speaks to PREMIUM TIMES on how the ICRC tackles humanitarian crises in Nigeria,...

In addition to the exodus of doctors, about 75,000 nurses have left Nigeria since 2017.

In this report, PREMIUM TIMES provides a comprehensive look at key events that shaped the health sector last year.

Findings by PREMIUM TIMES reveal that an ever-growing refuse dump in the community has become a major cause of flooding...

UHC covers the full continuum of essential health services, from health promotion to prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), one in six men will experience some form of GBV in their lifetime.

"As at the end of September 2024, 82 per cent of the estimated PLHIV in US CDC- supported (Nigerian) states...

Currently, Nigeria ranks third in global preterm births with 774,100 preterm births annually and a high perinatal mortality rate.

Only about 33 per cent of pregnant women are on antiretroviral therapy (ART),

For too long, this premier tertiary hospital established in 1957, has been, as it were, on a sick bed waiting...

“When we have sick people in the community, we take them elsewhere. We have since lost hope in the hospital....

In February 2023, African leaders met once again to revisit the Abuja Declaration.

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Nigeria accounted for nearly 30 per cent of global malaria cases.

The first rollout of the vaccine will be in Bayelsa and Kebbi, two states with high seasonal transmission of malaria.

The programme aims to provide beneficiaries with free primary and secondary healthcare services for 12 months.

Nigeria has received 10,000 doses of the Mpox vaccine, but none for children under 18.

The University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital sustained significant water damage and was forced to suspend its operations for two weeks.

We have cleaned up the water at the hospital and basic services will resume, the Chief Medical Director of the...

“Beans used to be a regular meal for us, but now we can only afford it once a week."

Ranked by WHO among the 37 countries with critical health workforce shortages, Nigeria is battling an exodus of trained professionals...

Compared to Clade I and II, the new variant, Clade Ib, is considered to be deadlier and contagious, spreading rapidly...