Health

The Abia State Commissioner for Health, Dr. John Ahukanna, says the state has keyed into the new United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Health Policy Plus (HP+). Ahukanna made the disclosure in Umuahia on Tuesday at a seminar organised by the agency. The commissioner said that government was convinced …

The head of the United Nations’ peacekeeping operations has vowed to do more with Democratic Republic of Congo’s government to help improve security in the country’s east, where attacks by rebels are affecting efforts to contain an Ebola outbreak that has killed more than 150 people. The UN peacekeeping chief …

Air pollution is the “new tobacco,” Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. He warned that the simple act of breathing is killing 7 million people a year and harming billions more. Nine out of 10 people breathe polluted air, or over 90 percent of …

Bauchi State Agency for the control of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Leprosy and Malaria (BACATMA) and ‎the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have called on journalists to continue their support for the fight against Malaria. Executive Chairman of the agency, Dr. Mohammed Sambo Alkali made the call at a Media …

Psychiatrists have called on professionals in mental health to collaborate with non-professional organisations to educate and create more awareness about mental issues in the society. The psychiatrists made the appeal at a seminar organised by two NGOs, the Nous Foundation Nigeria and Sparkle Foundation Nigeria, on Saturday in Lagos. A …

The locally made product is marketed at 180 baht per bottle of 30 600mg tablets, while the imported product retailes at more than 1,000 baht per bottle. BANGKOK – The World Health Organization has certified the Government Pharmaceutical Organization’s anti-retrovirus HIV drug Efavirenz, and the GPO is now looking to overseas …

Zambia has been classified by the World Health Organisation to be at very high risk of importation of cases of Ebola virus disease (EVD) from the ongoing epidemic of the disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo due to the heightened transmission of the virus in North Kivu and …

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo on Saturday announced N250 million as the start-up capital for health insurance scheme in the state. He described health insurance scheme as a necessity for quality life and should be embraced by individuals, governments, and corporate organisations. Okorocha made the announcement at the official flag-off …

Forty years after World Health Organisation (WHO) highlighted the importance of primary health care in tackling health inequality in every country, through the historical Alma Alta Declaration, global health leaders converged in Kazakhstan to renew the declaration. The leaders are also reassessing and reflecting on the reasons for the slow …

In just ten months, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported more than 41,000 cases among EU member states as a whole, which led to 40 deaths. The WHO also noted the spike in cases, and fatalities, is higher than any other figure reported throughout a 12-month period so far …