Tag: tuberculosis (TB)

In 2023 alone, Nigeria reported 467,000 new TB cases and 71,000 deaths

She added that the government is also enhancing funding and partnerships to scale up TB control programmes amid dwindling donor ...

Nigeria ranks first in Africa and sixth in the world, accounting for about 4.6 per cent of the global tuberculosis ...

According to WHO, TB is the 13th leading cause of death and the second leading infectious killer after COVID-19 (above ...

No disease should be tolerated, especially deadly infections like TB and COVID-19. All diseases need to be tackled with new ...

The official said that the UN High-Level world leaders had agreed to mobilise 13 billion dollars per year to finance ...

Nigeria ranks first in Africa and sixth amongst 30 countries globally with the highest burden of the disease.

Nigeria has already surpassed the number of TB cases notified in 2020 by seven per cent.

It’s time to strengthen our resolve and tackle all of the diseases that afflict our most vulnerable communities — at ...

Global health experts seek improvement of the 100-year-old BCG vaccine.

Mr Chukwulobelu blamed lack of funds and low awareness for the high burden of TB in the state.

Many states have not done their analysis and cannot say how much it would cost additionally on their premium to ...

Apart from the pandemic, the fight against TB has been chronically underfunded in the last few years.

Case tracing of people suffering from Tuberculosis in the country has slowed down in recent month due to COVID-19

Nigeria was declared free of the polio virus on Tuesday as the world continues to battle the coronavirus.

Cholera outbreak in Yobe, and why you should engage in physical exercise

Globally, an estimated 10 million people developed TB in 2017.