Tag: malaria

Mrs Adeyeye added that the growing challenge of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), which was one of the greatest threats to global ...

The bill seeks to establish an agency that will coordinate national efforts towards the prevention, control and eventual elimination of ...

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) also treated 136,778 malaria and 13,877 cholera patients in Zamfara.

According to the report, MSF treated more than 440,000 children for malnutrition in 2025, the highest number recorded by the ...

The webinar explored how Primary Health Care (PHC) transformation could accelerate malaria control and elimination in Africa.

Ghanaian authorities baulked at terms requiring the sharing of sensitive health data, the source added.

She called for strengthened prevention efforts and expanded access to life-saving interventions, stressing that vulnerable communities must not be left ...

Mr Aina said the government is using a mix of data tracking, free services, and immunisation campaigns to address preventable ...

As Nigeria experiences a severe Lassa fever season, the World Health Organisation (WHO) notes that laboratory testing is required to ...

The defamation suit stemmed from Chemonics' complaints against Zenith Care to US authorites in 2020.

Mr Salako attributed the progress to strategic expansion of diagnostic networks, especially the GeneXpert network, which has increased from 32 ...

If the Gates Foundation’s final 20-year push is about reducing maternal and child mortality, eradicating malaria, ..., Nigeria sits at ...

According to figures provided in the statement, ITN campaigns reached about 6.1 million people in Delta, 9.1 million in Kaduna, ...

The report says a shift toward investments that deliver the highest value, such as primary care and proven child survival ...

Recently, South Africa, Eswatini, and Zambia commenced the first rollout of the twice-yearly HIV-prevention injection, marking the initial public use ...

Mr Salako noted that Nigeria has placed 98 per cent of people living with HIV on treatment, surpassing the UNAIDS ...

Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu described the outcome as a shift toward country-led partnerships

This groundbreaking partnership forms part of LG’s Life’s Good Care Campaign, designed to protect families and promote healthier communities nationwide.

Between 2021 and 2023, 63 million insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) were distributed nationwide, bringing coverage to about 70 per cent of ...

“Mosquitoes have really dealt with us here,” says a beneficiary of the free net.

In August, the country’s leading DNA testing centre, Smart DNA Nigeria, released its 2025 Annual DNA Testing Report, revealing that ...

Nigeria's health financing dialogue revealed both opportunities and persistent gaps that must be bridged to strengthen the country's health system.

He added that the existing global health financing structure, shaped over the past 25 years, has proved inadequate in addressing ...

She said the intervention targeted children aged three to 59 months, those most vulnerable due to weaker immune systems