Nigeria Among Top Hepatitis Death Contributors
By Babatunji Wusu The World Health Organisation (WHO) has named Nigeria as one of the countries driving global hepatitis deaths in 2024, highlighting the disease’s heavy toll worldwide. In its…
NAFDAC Proposes Strict New Regulations to Combat High Sodium Intake in Nigeria
By Babatunji Wusu The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has sounded a critical alarm regarding the soaring levels of salt consumption across the country. During…
Africa CDC Allocates 899,000 Mpox Vaccines
|By Adejumo Adekunle – The Access and Allocation Mechanism (AAM) has allocated 899,000 Mpox vaccine doses to nine African countries, including Nigeria, in response to the Mpox outbreak across the…
WHO ISSUES A WARNING ABOUT TAINTED COUGH MEDICINE IN CAMEROON.
Tunji Wusu – According to the World Health Organization, a batch of cold syrup marketed as Naturcold and distributed in Cameroon had exceptionally high concentrations of dangerous chemicals that were…
COVID-19: THE FG RECEIVES A $9.26M FUNDING FROM CANADA.
Tunji Wusu – The Canadian Government has awarded the Federal Government a $9.26 million (Can) grant to expand the delivery of COVID-19 vaccination services to high-risk populations and to strengthen…
NIGERIA IS EXEMPT FROM RECEIVING THE ‘LIFESAVING’ MALARIA VACCINE THAT WILL BE GIVEN TO 12 OTHER AFRICAN NATIONS.
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization, the UN Children’s Fund, and the Global Vaccine Alliance (GAVI) announced that 12 African nations would get malaria vaccine. In a statement, the organizations…
ACCORDING TO REPORTS, THE COVID-19 VACCINE LEFT ACTOR JAMIE FOXX “PARALYZED & BLIND.”
Following a COVID-19 vaccination side effect, it has been reported that American actor Jamie Foxx has experienced partial paralysis. According to Hollywood journalist A.J. Benza, the vaccine caused him to…
WHO DECLARES END TO COVID GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY
The World Health Organization ended the global emergency status for COVID-19 on Friday more than three years after its original declaration, and said countries should now manage the virus that…
247 MILLION CASES OF MALARIA HAVE BEEN REPORTED WORLDWIDE.
According to a recent WHO estimate, there were 247 million cases of malaria worldwide in 2021, up from 245 million cases in 2020 and 232 million cases in 2019. The…
NCDC DG, GETS NEW APPOINTMENT AT WHO
The appointment of Chikwe Ihekweazu as an assistant Director-general of the World Health Organisation (WHO), as assumed by the Director-general, Tedros Ghebreyesus said, the appointment will “further accelerate WHO’s work…
