Tag: tuberculosis

Professor Quarraisha Abdool Karim explaining how to deploy an innovative therapy. Africa has the scientific leadership and intellectual capital to ...

TB remains one of the world’s deadliest disease and every day, about 4,100 people die, while 30,000 people fall ill ...

WHO described vaccine inequity as the most obvious lesson from the pandemic.

Mosquirix is not just the first approved vaccine for malaria; it is also the first developed for any parasitic disease.

Nigeria remains one of the 30 countries globally with the highest burden of the disease, while it also ranks first ...

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

Nigeria remains one of the 30 countries globally with the highest burden of TB.

Health officials want media attention given to Tuberculosis as COVID-19

When people with tuberculosis cough, sneeze or spit, they propel the TB germs into the air.

Nigeria remains one of the 30 countries globally with the highest burden of tuberculosis.

The pandemic has eliminated 12 years of progress in the global fight against Tuberculosis.

Global Fund says it is investing $500 million over the next three years to fight TB in 11 African countries.

Buhari calls on the international community to use the latest technology and tools to address the Tuberculosis (TB) epidemic.

Every year, about 245,000 Nigerians die from tuberculosis

Nigeria will use the $890 million grant to reduce the burden of HIV, TB and Malaria over an implementation period ...

It estimates that countries affected by HIV, tuberculosis and malaria urgently need US$28.5 billion to protect the progress achieved in ...

Prisons and other places of detention must be part of nations COVID-19 plans, with dedicated participation of the affected population.

Trials to assess the usefulness of the BCG vaccine in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic are already underway.

In 2016, Nigeria adopted GeneXpert as the first diagnostic tool for the disease.

The official reminded everyone that although COVID-19 is dominating the world's attention, "there's another respiratory disease that is both preventable ...

He said the NCDC boss will remain in quarantine in one of the rooms in his house for 14 days.

There have been initiatives in Nigeria to develop local technology. But in my experience, these initiatives fail to get traction.

Malaria would take the highest allocation of $417. 8 million, followed by HIV with $329.1 million and Tuberculosis (TB), $143.5 ...

Mrs Buhari says 18 Nigerians including children die every hour from tuberculosis in the country.

The cost of the drug, rifapentine, will be cut from U.S. $45 to $15 dollars for a recommended three-month course ...