The WHO Emergency Committee on Tuesday said the Ebola situation in West Africa no longer constitute public health emergency and as such the temporary recommendations adopted in response should now be terminated. 

This information is contained in a statement issued after the ninth meeting convened by the WHO. The Committee also noted that since its last meeting, all the three concerned countries had met the criteria for confirming interruption of their original chains of Ebola virus transmission.

The Global Fund Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has agreed to give Mali 170 million dollars to promote prevention and fight against HIV/AIDS. 

Executive Director, Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Michel Sidibe, said on Wednesday after meeting with Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in Bamako. 

He said at a press conference that the fund has renewed its partnership with Mali by giving the country over 100 billion CFA Francs. “This is a clear demonstration of the good working relationship.

A Chevron Company, Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited and its Co-Venturers in the Agbami oil field project have announced plans to kick off a tuberculosis (TB) campaign to raise awareness of the deadline disease in Kano, Lagos, Kaduna and River States.

The campaign is aimed at sensitizing people on the dangers, prevention, management and treatment of TB.

As part of efforts to reduce the health care challenges in the nation, the Federal Government of Nigeria has announced plans to address inadequate facilities in 10,000 primary health care centres across the country.

The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, disclosed the plan in Abuja‎, according to Channels TV reports, stating that  the Federal Government was committed to improving the health care needs of Nigerians in order to sustain the progress so far recorded in the health sector.

A fake gynecologist recently arrested by the police in Ibadan, has been disowned by a hospital she claimed to have worked for.

Dammy Ojo, whose actual name is Miss Damilola Ojo, was reported to have defrauded unsuspecting residents of over N23 million, had told the police that she began her career as a nurse, with an Oyo-based private health institution, Goodswills Hospital.

Management Sciences for Health (MSH), an organisation which supports health projects in 19 states in Nigeria, has expressed concern on health indices in the country. It said it was unacceptable that more than 150 women die every day due to preventable causes while 2,300 children die daily and another one in five Nigerian children will not celebrate the 5th birthday.

Speaking at MSH's 10th anniversary, the Country Representative, Dr Zipporah Kpamor, said, “We believe that the situation is not hopeless as indicated by the interruption of the wild polio virus transmission and recent success with the control of the Ebola epidemic show.

The group Community Health and Research Initiative (CHR) says its analysis of Niger states 2016 budget presented to the state legislature did not provide adequate funding for routine immunisation. 

The finding is the outcome of a scorecard on Nigers budgeting presented by CHR as a coalition of civil society organisations and media working on routine immunisation met in Minna, with directors of Niger State Primary Health Care Development Agency, according to a statement.