Health Specials

SMC is designed to prevent and protect children against malaria.

The activists say African governments are yet to put strong measures to combat the increasing use of tobacco on the continent

The number of confirmed cases in Madagascar reached 7,153 on Monday, including 62 deaths.

The door-to-door campaign to vaccinate 800,000 children under the age of five is scheduled to last three days in polio hotspots.

Covid-19 has changed the world, but African communities are working to innovate in the face of the crisis.

A senior WHO official said that the topic of schools reopening have become a “political football”, which is not fair on children.

Health care workers are the soldiers on the front lines in the battle against coronavirus.

The report says Coronavirus is deepening the hunger crisis in the world’s hunger hotspots and creating new epicentres of hunger across the globe.

We realised that the virus has changed, a mutation.

Gambo Aliyu is the Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA). In this exclusive interview with PREMIUM TIMES’ Nike Adebowale, Mr Aliyu talks about the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on HIV/AIDS services.

This announcement dashes all hope that hydroxychloroquine, as well as the related drug chloroquine, could be an option at a time when there are too few treatments available for the virus.

The leaders, in the statement, urged manufacturers of essential malaria commodities to ensure the consistent availability of products and maintain production.

Despite progress made in testing for COVID-19, countries in Africa are averaging nine tests per 10 000 people.

Several states across Nigeria have suspended congregational prayers in an effort to stem the spread of coronavirus.

The committee is expected to decide whether the government should ban flights into Nigeria from high-risk countries or gathering at social activities and festivals.

The President of the Nigerian Association of Nephrology says about 25 million Nigerians have kidney disease.

Bamidele Omotola said Nigeria will continue to be at the bottom of the ladder when compared to other countries if it does not meet the SDGs by 2030.

As the world marks cancer day on Tuesday, many Nigerian patients are barely able to pay for their treatment.

The nation’s health insurance office paid staff ridiculous and illegal allowances including “upfront differential allowance”, “pre-retirement overseas training allowance”, and “children education allowances.”

The contractors for the projects blame the NDDC for their abandonment.

The 66 graduates were drawn from different professional backgrounds across the country.

Since 2015, Health Emergency Initiatives has been helping to roll back medical detention and saving lives by paying the hospital bills of poor Nigerians.