Health Specials

The disease control centre noted that seven deaths have been recorded in seven states in 2022.

Our reporting revealed that PHC facilities in the country cannot provide essential healthcare services.

“At least one child globally was infected with HIV every two minutes in 2020.”

Poor funding of the health sector leaves negative impacts on Nigeria’s rising population, with the country accounting for 20 per...

At least 17 million Nigerian children are undernourished; stunted and/or wasted, giving Nigeria the highest burden of malnutrition in Africa...

Despite TB being a vaccine-preventable disease, one-quarter of the World’s population, approximately 1.9 billion people, is infected with TB

“The policy has an overall goal of improving the life and standards of living for all Nigerians through population control”

Located in the South-west state of Ekiti are two health facilities built with millions of naira of public funds but...

The organisers said the event is aimed at finding solutions to challenges of vaccine production and supply chain situation in...

Senior officials, including those in charge of the facility in Katsina, have attempted a coverup to avoid accountability, sources told...

Health security aims to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats. In practice, this is limited to specific activities,...

The official noted that over one million children under the age of five also die as a result of losing...

NCDC said a total of 248,864 persons have now been discharged nationwide since the outbreak of the virus in Nigeria...

WHO said the increasing fatality figure was mostly driven by the omicron variant.

With no backlog of discharged cases, the disease centre noted that a total of 230,549 have been successfully treated and...

The disease centre stated that the country’s death toll still stands at 3,142, as no fatality was recorded on Monday.

The report will be launched on February 23, 2022, together with The Safety Guide for Journalists covering pandemics in Africa.

NCDC said in Nigeria a total of 254,124 have now been discharged nationwide.

Climate change has impacted Nigeria negatively in the past few decades though not as drastically as in some other parts...

The disease centre noted that the latest figure includes a backlog of 18 confirmed cases and a single discharged case...

With the new confirmed cases, the country’s infection toll has increased to 253,780, while the death toll still stands at...

As of February 2, 2022, NCDC data shows that a total of 20,593 people are still down with the illness...

The disease centre noted that Lagos State topped the infection chart with 57 new cases.