It is feared that Nigeria stands to loose a total number of 300,000 children within the ages of 0-5 years to acute malnutrition in 2016 if drastic measures are not swiftly put in place to tackle the menace. 

Zakari Fusheni, a nutrition specialist in UNICEF Abuja office, on Wednesday disclosed this at a retreat on malnutrition with the theme:

“Malnutrition: the major cause of under five-5 mobility and mortality in Kaduna state: call for action” which was organised by the Kaduna state ministry of local government, health and human services, in collaboration with UNICEF Kaduna field office, also disclosed that over 1.6 million Nigerian children are malnourished.

The federal government on Thursday said that there is a distressing rise in cases of undetected and undiagnosed tuberculosis in Nigeria, saying that this development puts a lot of Nigerians at the risk of the disease. 

The government said this just as Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited and its venture partners in the Agbami field project reiterated their commitment to partnering with it and state governments to tackle the scourge of tuberculosis and other health issues in the country.

Minister of State for Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has said the present administration is committed towards forging a closer relationship with medical social workers in the country. He stated this when the national president of the Association of Medical Social Workers of Nigeria (AMSWON), Abubakar Alhassan Bichi led a delegation to his office in Abuja.

The National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA) today, unveiled a simplified version of the HIV/AIDs Anti-Discrimination Act 2014 to aid better understanding and maximum utilization of the provisions. 

NACA's DG, Prof John Udoko who did the unveiling in Abuja said the law needed to be broken down into everyday language devoid of legal terminologies so that people can understand it. 

He said "Nigeria is one of the few countries in the world with an anti-discrimination law related to HIV/AIDs. Making a popular version of this law available will result in increased demand for testing services and improved quality of life for people living with HIV in Nigeria."

The World Tuberculosis Day was marked worldwide on Thursday March 24, the 134th anniversary of Dr. Robert Koch’s discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, with a call by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for new commitments and new action in the global fight against tuberculosis – one of the world’s top infectious killers.

However, while WHO seems happy that there has been tremendous progress in recent years as the world is on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal of reversing the spread of TB by 2015 the story in Nigeria was not so impressive.

The Lagos State Government says it is finalising policy on treatment guideline for people living with Sickle Cell Disorder, even as the disorder has been declared as a major public health issue.

Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who made the disclosure at a seminar organized by National Sickle Cell center in collaboration with Sickle Cell Non Governmental Organisations, stakeholders and those living with the disorder in Lagos, said the disorder had become an emergent health concern, given the data of 300, 000 to 500, 000 children born with it yearly in Africa.

Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara has sponsored the treatment of about 5, 000 patients who suffer from various ailments from 20 local government areas of Bauchi state. 

The free medical services which commenced yesterday at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital [ATBUTH], Bauchi will be rendered by a team of professional doctors known as ‘Doctors on the move Africa’ and would last for two weeks.