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Head of Nutrition, Federal Ministry of Health, Dr. Chris Osa Isokpunwu, has said. Nigeria needs over $912 million to implement its National Nutrition Intervention Plan to check the menace malnutrition resulting in high rate of infant/mother mortality in the country.
Discussions at the ongoing AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa, have focused on the dearth of homegrown scientific solutions to HIV/AIDS on the continent. This comes as participants at the conference say that many of the breakthroughs in the treatment and control of the viral disease are coming from abroad instead of within.
According to them, donors from the United States of America and other developed nations commit more funds and resources to HIV/AIDS programmes compared to governments in Africa, the region that is most affected by the disease.
The Federal Government has announced that it is set to carry out 10,000 subsidised surgeries on indigent Nigerians which will include cleft lip and palate repairs, myomectomy, hysterectomy and Vessico-Vagina Fistula (VVF) amongst others in 46 tertiary institutions.
Also, there will be treatment of 200,000 severely malnourished children categorised under weight loss, stunted growth as well as poor resistance to infection as the devastating health effect of the condition, especially on their physical and intellectual growth needs to be tackled.
About 17 Health Management Organisations (HMOs) under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) have been delisted, Mrs Ahunna Ochor, the Coordinator of the scheme in Enugu State, has said.
Speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu, Ochor said the affected HMOs could not provide quality health to enrollees.
The Plateau State Government has expressed its readiness to partner with the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to establish a state health insurance agency to promote healthcare services.
Notice is hereby given that the Annual Mid-year General Meeting of the Healthcare Providers’ Association of Nigeria will be held on Thursday 28th July 2015 at 10.00am. The meeting is open to all members of and those who have applied for membership of Healthcare Providers’ Association of Nigeria and all Healthcare providers’ who are considering becoming members. Your attendance is greatly appreciated. Matters of interest to the providers will be discussed.
Global health experts, scientists and others will storm Lagos next week to brainstorm on emerging deadly diseases threatening the African continent.The Lagos State Government in collaboration with Global Emerging Pathogens Treatment Consortium (GET).
A leadership development expert, Dr. Kelechi Ohiri, has called for an intervention fund to revamp health care delivery in Nigeria like those offered by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to agriculture, aviation and the manufacturing industry.
The Ogun State government has closed down at least 26 private hospitals, whose management have failed to revalidate their facilities in line with regulations. The institutions affected reportedly failed to comply with the Private Hospitals and other Health Establishments Registration Edict of 1988.
Dr. Nafiu Aigoro, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, ordered the closure during a monitoring and inspection exercise. Represented by Dr. Solomon Shokunbi, the Permanent Secretary said the act is in the best interest of the people.
On July 28, Nigeria will join the rest of the word in commemorating the 2016 edition of the World Hepatitis Day. The event, which is observed annually, was inaugurated by the World Health Organisation to raise global awareness on hepatitis or a group of infectious diseases known as Hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E, and to encourage the prevention, diagnosis, as well as the treatment.
The first global World Hepatitis Day was marked on May 19, 2008 through the effort of the World Hepatitis Alliance in collaboration with various patient groups. The commemoration received an international endorsement following the adoption of a resolution during the 63rd World Health Assembly held in May 2010. The date of the event was later changed to July 28 each year by the assembly, in honour of the birthday of the Nobel laureate, Baruch Samuel Blumberg – the man who discovered the Hepatitis B virus.
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New York City’s Health Department on Friday reported the first female-to-male transmission of the Zika virus, which is most typically spread by the bite of an infected mosquito.
The U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said the report was the first documented case of sexual transmission of Zika from a woman to her male sex partner. “All previously reported cases of sexually transmitted Zika virus infection have been spread from men to their sex partners,’’ the Atlanta-based CDC said in a statement.
The infertile women in Africa have been neglected, mistreated and discriminated because they cannot bear a child. This isnot right and has to change. The Merck More Than A Mother campaign will empower those infertile women in Africa through improving access to information, awareness, health and change of mindset.
It is with passion that Rasha Kelej, the Chief Social Officer of Merck Healthcare is raising awareness about this discrimination, stigma and ostracism women undergo for their inability to have a child. The campaign will also encourage men to acknowledge and discuss openly their fertility problems and strife for an approach to family building with their partners in order to progress towards shared fertility responsibility.
The Nigeria Olympic Committee (NOC) Medical and Scientific Commission yesterday released guidelines on how to avoid the Zika virus to sports fans travelling to Brazil for the Olympic Games.
The Olympics will hold in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from August 5 to 21, while the Paralympic Games is scheduled for September 7 to 18. According to the guidelines to prevent the spread of the Zika virus pre and post Rio 2016 made available to The Guardian, pregnant women are advised not to travel to Brazil, while athletes, officials and other Nigerians in the country for the games should prevent mosquito bites by using insect repellent and protective clothing.
Doctors have called on the Federal Government to declare hepatitis B a health emergency as it did with HIV/AIDS. The appeal, they said, had become imperative to save Nigerians from health complications associated with the disease.
According to a Consultant Gastroenterologist with the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos, Dr. Olufunmilayo Lesi, Nigeria has one of the highest prevalence of hepatitis B infections in the world.
