The World Health Organisation (WHO) says six countries, including Nigeria, accounted for around 50 percent of malaria deaths worldwide in 2020. The organisation disclosed this in its world malaria report released on Monday. According to WHO’s latest report, there was an estimate of 241 million malaria cases and 627,000 malaria deaths — mostly of children under […]
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The World Health Organisation, WHO, has said that a quarter of the world’s population are at risk of developing Tuberculosis, TB, during their lifetime. According to WHO, countries are not doing enough to end tuberculosis (TB) in spite of global efforts that averted about 54 million TB deaths since 2000. WHO, at the release of […]
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By Femi Adesina Let me begin by telling a story. On June 1, 2015, the day I resumed work as adviser on media to President Muhammadu Buhari, he had admonished me: “Adesina, always tell me the truth. That is what I want from you. In this type of position I have found myself, it is […]
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