Tag: Meningitis

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

The agency noted that the past 11 years have been the warmest in the modern era, with oceans continuing to ...

Mr Idris said the festive period, characterised by increased travel, large social gatherings and food sharing, coupled with dry-season conditions, ...

The NCDC via its official website on Friday, highlighted the continued public health challenge posed by these diseases

In April 2025, Nigeria’s health sector faced a mix of urgent challenges and progress.

The global target, he noted, is to reduce the number of zero-dose children by 25 per cent by 2025 and ...

Most of the people who have died presented late. This is why we keep saying, once you start noticing the ...

They are urging governments and donors to support global efforts to protect lives and sustain vaccination programmes.

According to the NCDC, six states—Kebbi, Sokoto, Katsina, Jigawa, Yobe, and Gombe—remain high-burden areas.

The statement noted that the vaccine doses are part of an emergency response campaign targeting individuals aged one to 29 ...

NiMet listed the states most vulnerable to an outbreak of meningitis.

He added that the state government had released N30 million to purchase drugs and other consumables for the responsive activity ...

The global bodies said the stagnation in global immunisation coverage since 2022 and the failure to return to 2019 levels ...

NAFDAC noted that detecting and removing the product from circulation is essential to prevent harm to patients

Nigeria recorded 1,742 suspected meningitis cases, including 101 confirmed cases and 153 deaths in seven states between 1 October 2023 ...

Just as it warns against counterfeit Tandak injection, NAFDAC has also recalled a children's cough syrup after its laboratory analysis ...

Nigeria recorded a total of 303 confirmed cases and 190 deaths from Cerebrospinal Meningitis (CSM) across 29 states and the ...

According to her, meningitis can be infectious or non-infectious, with viruses accounting for the majority of the infectious type.

An official said 65 deaths were recorded in Fourteen Local Government Areas of the state.

Some of Nigeria's health indices provide context to how dire the situation is in the country.

The ministers have been meeting in Brazzaville on how to improve the state of health in the continent.

The deaths from meningitis in Nigeria so far are less than in 2018.

He said the agency has begun sensitisation to curb the epidemic so that it does not spread to neighbouring local ...

AFP surveillance is the backbone of the global polio eradication effort.

PREMIUM TIMES analyses how Nigeria fared in 2018 in the surveillance, prevention and management of six diseases.