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Climate change risks upending global fight against malaria
Climate change and its impacts, particularly extreme weather and heatwaves, pose a “substantial risk” to progress being made…
NCDC warns Nigerians against rising antimicrobial resistance crisis
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention has highlighted the emerging threat of antimicrobial resistance where bacteria,…
NAFDAC seeks security agencies’ partnership to rid South-East of sub-standard drugs
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) on Monday in Enugu sought the partnership of security…
FG to adopt task-shifting, task-sharing policy to tackle non-communicable diseases
The Coordinating Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has said that the National Task-Shifting and Task-Sharing (NTSTS) Policy…
Updated guidelines on COVID-19 revise risk of hospitalisation
The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its guidelines on COVID-19 treatment, with revised recommendations for non-severe cases…
Surgeons in New York announce world’s first eye transplant
Surgeons in New York have performed the first-ever whole-eye transplant in a human, they announced on Thursday, an…
Administrators urge govts to prioritise health workers’ conditions of service
The Institute of Health Service Administrators of Nigeria (IHSAN) has called on government at all levels to prioritise…
Medical physicists seek support on passage of regulatory bill
The Nigerian Association of Medical Physicists (NAMP) has appealed to President Bola Tinubu and the National Assembly (NASS)…
Stakeholders advocate stronger policies protecting young people living with HIV
Stakeholders have called for strengthening of the legal framework and policies to protect young people living with Human…
More action needed to write ‘final chapter’ of TB
Tuberculosis (TB) response is bouncing back from disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but more effort is needed…