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The Kwara State Action Committee on HIV and AIDS (KWASACA) has recorded no fewer than 432 children infected with HIV and AIDS between January and June in Kwara. The Coordinator of KWASACA, Dr Seleem Alabi, disclosed this at the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) Kwara Chapter Week in Ilorin on Wednesday.
The National Orientation Agency (NOA) in collaboration with UNICEF has concluded plans to establish 90 theatre groups in three states to mobilize and support communities to access health care services for the healthy development of children.
The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Stuart Symington, on Monday urged Nigeria to continue to invest in building resilient health systems as this will safeguard citizens and act as a strategy to bolster economic transformation in the nation.
According to a statement made available by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Mr Symington made this call during a courtesy visit to the agency’s office in Abuja.
The Nigerian government plans to equip primary healthcare centres across the country to screen and treat diabetes and hypertension. The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, made this plan known on Monday while declaring open the 4th Pan- African Diabetic Foot Study Group Conference and the Advance Course on Diabetic Foot/Podiatry in Abuja.
According to a statement on Tuesday by the ministry’s spokesperson, Boade Akinola, the programme was organised by the Pan-African Diabetic Foot Study Group in collaboration with World Diabetes Foundation and Mark Anumah Medical Mission.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has reassured it has the capacity to effectively diagnose and respond to monkeypox after Britain confirmed two cases of the disease in two patients one of whom had travelled to Nigeria.
Some 9.6 million people will die of cancer in 2018, according to a report of the Global Cancer Statistics 2018 released on Wednesday by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
IARC is part of the World Health Organisation (WHO). The number of people around the world, who have cancer is growing rapidly, with 18.1 million new cases, the report said.
Rains Force Hospitalization Of 183 Children For Malaria, Pneumonia
At least 183 children have been admitted into intensive care at a hospital in Maiduguri in the last week to be treated for malaria and pneumonia.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF or Doctors Without Borders) which runs the 30-bed Paediatric Hospital in Gwange says the facility is “full that medical teams have been left with no option but to have children share beds.”
It Is Necessary To Educate Children About The Sensitive Parts Of Their Bodies—Adeyemo
The Director and Lead Coach of the Vocational Career Clinic International, Oluwakayode Stephen-Adeyemo, together with other childcare and youth experts have called on parents and guardians not to shy away from teaching their children and wards about sex and drug abuse.
The experts, who spoke during the fourth edition of VCC’s Excellence and Viability Retreat, which held recently in Ejigbo, Lagos, stated that if parents failed to teach their children some important lessons, they would be exposed to the wrong things elsewhere.
Founder of Avon Medical and GAVI Champion for Africa, Dr Awele Elumelu, has joined global health leaders at a photo exhibition to call for increase vaccine coverage in countries where children are under-immunised. The champions at the “Vaccine Heroes” exhibition in Geneva reiterated their commitment to saving the lives of children around the world.
“Immunisation is one sure way to prevent diseases, save our children and advance our economy,” said Elumelu.
Humanitarian crisis, corruption and mismanagement at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi Araba, have resulted in unhygienic conditions, a severe shortage of medicines and medical supplies in the hospital.More...
The World Health Organisation, WHO said no fewer than 800,000 people commit suicide annually, the second leading cause of death among people between the ages of 15 and 29 in 2016.Medical Expert Attributes Student Poor Performance to Phone Addiction
A medical doctor in Kano State, Dr Tijjani Haruna, has attributed poor academic performance among some students to phone addiction. Haruna, who is working with the Mohammed Abdullahi Wase Specialist Hospital, Kano, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kano on Sunday.
A New Director General/CEO in the person of Dr Obi Peter Adigwe has been appointed for the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD), Abuja.Global Fund accuses Nigerian CSO officials of misappropriating millions donated to fight Tuberculosis
Global Fund, an international donor agency, has accused officials of a Nigerian civil society organisation (CSO) of stealing from money meant for their staff salaries.
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, is an international financing organisation founded by billionaire American couple, Bill and Melinda Gates; recently deceased former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan; Amir Attaran and Jeffrey Sachs.
