The United States has signed a five-year, $5.1 billion bilateral Health cooperation Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Nigeria. A statement titled, ‘Strengthening U.S.-Nigerian Health Cooperation under the America First Global Health Strategy’, by the US mission in Nigeria on Read more…
The Federal Government has signed a five-year, $5.1 billion bilateral Health cooperation Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the United States to advance the America First Global Health Strategy. The partnership is aimed at supporting resilient, self-reliant, and durable Health Read more…
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said Monday it had identified a new strain of the mpox virus in England in a person who had recently travelled to Asia. “Our genomic testing has enabled us to detect this new mpox strain,” said Read more…
Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Monday declared an end to the latest outbreak of Ebola, which has caused at least 34 deaths since August. The virus, which is often fatal despite recent advances in vaccines Read more…
South Africa, Eswatini, and Zambia were to begin on Monday administering a groundbreaking new HIV-prevention injection in the drug’s first public rollouts in Africa, which has the world’s highest HIV burden. Lenacapavir, taken twice a year, has been shown Read more…
South Africa, Eswatini, and Zambia on Monday began administering a groundbreaking HIV-prevention injection in the drug’s first public rollouts in Africa, which has the world’s highest HIV burden. Lenacapavir, which is taken twice a year, has been shown to Read more…
The Jigawa State government has finalised preparations for a major polio vaccination exercise targeting 1.5 million children across the state. The announcement was made during a media dialogue organised by UNICEF ahead of the campaign. Dr. Shehu Sambo, Executive Read more…
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has estimated that the distribution of condoms for prevention of the disease in Nigeria has fallen by 55 per cent from last December to March this year. The figure, released Tuesday Read more…
A three-year campaign to bring vaccines against human papillomavirus (HPV) to low-income countries has prevented 1.4 million cervical cancer deaths, the vaccine alliance Gavi said Monday. “An estimated 86 million girls are now protected against the leading cause of Read more…
The Federal Government has launched major national Health strategies to strengthen planning, resource allocation, service delivery performance measurement, and across the country. The launch was announced in a communiqué issued on Friday, and signed by the Federal Ministry of Read more…