Speaking ahead of the 2016 World AIDS Day, outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that the organisation is working toward ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. “The United Nations is working worldwide to end AIDS by 2030,” Ban said on Monday in New York in his message for World AIDS Day, observed on Dec. […]
Continue ReadingA community health expert, Mrs Karounwi Israel, says pawpaw seeds can help in the management of diabetes, stop cancer growth, kill bacteria and heal viral infections. Israel, the President of KARIS, a non-governmental organisation, which teaches people on many wonders of plants and fruits, spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos. […]
Continue ReadingThe Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, has said that the Federal Government would establish three more obstetric fistula hospitals by 2017 to end the cases in the country. Mrs Boade Akinola, Director Media and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Health, said this in a statement made available to newsmen on Monday in Abuja. According […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal Government of Nigeria, has disclosed plans to upgrade seven cancer treatment centres and provide additional machines to reduce the burden of the disease in Nigeria. The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, made this known in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday. “As we are talking today, […]
Continue ReadingUK scientists and clinicians working on a groundbreaking trial to test a possible cure for HIV infection say they have made remarkable progress after a British test patient showed NO sign of the virus following treatment.Scientists treating the 44-year-old patient are now hopeful of a breakthrough in what has been described as “one of the […]
Continue ReadingThe National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has expressed its determination to enforce quality delivery in hospitals across the country.Mrs Nonye Unaegbu, Senior Manager, Head Formal Sector of the scheme stated this during a sensitisation and awareness programme organised for staff of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. Unaegbu said the new Executive Secretary […]
Continue ReadingThe patient whose kidney was removed after a doctor mistook it for tumour is responding to the treatment. The 23-year-old herdsman from Fufore Local Government in Adamawa state, Isa Hamman, had his kidney extracted by a doctor in a private clinic who conducted a surgery on him. The doctor’s conduct was described as unprofessional by […]
Continue ReadingNasiru Shua’ibu, a professor in the Biochemical Parasitology Department of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, has developed a new malaria vaccine to prevent high rate of death from malaria fever.Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Zaria, Kaduna State on Tuesday, Mr. Shu’aibu said the new malaria vaccine was different from others currently […]
Continue ReadingFive confirmed cases of Lassa fever were reported from four states of Nigeria within the ending of August and early September, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, said. The agency said two cases were reported in Plateau State, one each in Rivers, Bauchi and Gombe states. “The case reported from Gombe died on 22nd […]
Continue ReadingThe Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria has spoken about the effect that foreign exchange scarcity in the country is having on manufacturing and importation of drugs to the country.It was categorically stated that if the Federal Government fails to take measures to tackle the crisis, it could lead to a “national health calamity” among Nigerians. The […]
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