Tag: Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey

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

According to the Kebbi State Nutrition Office, 608 severely malnourished children died between January and September 2025 across 21 treatment ...

The strike, which took effect from 1 November, marks an escalation of the dispute between resident doctors and the government ...

She cited a 2020 study across 20 secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory which found that about 32.9 per ...

The data also shows that no Nigerian state has met the National Policy on Population target of reducing the unmet ...

According to the trend figure in the report, exclusive breastfeeding has improved from about two per cent in 1990 to ...

The report suggests that poverty and lack of education remain the most significant barriers to women’s empowerment in reproductive health, ...

Mr Salako said the decline reflects gradual gains in access to and use of family planning services nationwide.

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

NAFDAC enumerates the benefits of exclusive breastfeeding and the challenges discouraging it among nursing mothers.

Stakeholders worry that the COVID-19 pandemic has widened the funding gap in family planning services in Nigeria

This year, the health survey sought to take blood samples from Nigerians for malaria, anaemia and genotype testing but shuns ...

Nigeria estimated population is currently at over 198 million with an annual growth rate of 3.2 per cent.