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Global leaders have called for investments in solutions that would advance the health, rights and well-being of girls and women. These investments, they said, would drive economic growth and development as well as ignite change across communities.
More than 20 US states that use a combination of drugs to carry out lethal injections will find it harder to conduct executions due to Pfizer's ban on sales of its chemicals, but the move will have little impact on the handful that rely on a single drug.
The pharmaceutical giant's move last week cuts off the last major U.S. source for drugs in the deadly mixes, and it adds to the difficulties of states that were already struggling to procure chemicals for lethal injections.
For the total eradication of polio in Nigeria, the government of Canada, through Marie-Claude Bibeau, Minister of International Development and La Francophonie, has announced a contribution of $19.9m.
The grant, which will be implemented during the period 2016/17 – 2020 by the World Health Organisation (WHO), is expected to sustain the polio eradication gains through strengthened Routine Immunization (RI).
Renowned Virologist and President of the Nigeria Academy of Science, Professor Oyewale Tomori, has said the discovery of a strain of Zika virus circulating in Brazil and other parts of the Americas in the Cape Verde area of Africa, should worry 
Can you imagine the operating theatre being run by robots instead of surgeons? Experts believe this could be the trend in the near future. This follows the first successful soft tissue surgery performed recently by an autonomous robot, giving rise to speculations that robots would soon be able to perform complicated operations without human assistance.
The Sixty-ninth session of the World Health Assembly (WHA) takes place in Geneva 23-28 May 2016. The Health Assembly is the supreme decision-making body of WHO. It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States. 
Nigeria is set to witness a boom in its health care delivery services as a Japanese company, Nijap-Fuji Nigeria Limited, partners with hospitals across the country in the supply of high- tech medical diagnostic equipment.
The chairman, Nijap-Fuji Nigeria Limited, Mr. Kato Kazumichi, who disclosed this over the weekend, said the aim is to bring Nigeria’s health care sector to the Japanese level as Japan has the highest life expectancy in the world, attributed to the highly – developed health care facilities.
The House of Representatives has launched an investigation into alleged misappropriation of Global Fund’s grant of $1,349,087 between July and December 2013 by the workers of the Department of Health Planning, Research and Statistics (DPRS).
This is even as the lawmakers berated the management of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) for allowing drugs for the treatment of HIV/AIDS to expire in their stores before beneficiaries could access them.
African Health Ministers Urged to Unite Against Neglected Tropical Diseases
The Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Folorunso Adewole yesterday called on African Ministers of Health to unite against Neglected Tropical Disease, NTDs, by including them in their Health Agenda, and ensure that they are no longer neglected. 
There is tension in the Ekiti State civil service over the five month salary arrears owed workers. The workers are also aggrieved over government’s failure to pay last December deductions.More...
The Federal Government on Tuesday said the pest,Tuta absoluta,popularly known as ‘Tomato Ebola’, which is responsible for the massive destruction of tomato in farmlands, had invaded six states in Nigeria.
It also disclosed that Nigeria spent about N80bn ($400m) annually importing tomato paste, adding that many of the imported products were substandard.
The Eastern Naval Command on Monday took free medical services to the people of Ugep in Yakurr local government area of Cross River State as part of activities lined up to mark the Nigerian navy’s 60th anniversary. Some of the services offered include blood pressure test, diabetes screening, malaria treatment, deworming, health talk, eye screening as well as drug administration.
In his opening remark at the event, the flag officer commanding (FOC), Eastern Naval Command, Rear Admiral James Oluwole, said the event was aimed at boosting the Nigerian navy’s relationship with the civil populace.
Ethiopia’s foreign minister and previous health minister, Tedros Adhanom, has thrown his hat into the ring as Africa’s first and only candidate for the post of director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO).
A new U.N. health chief will be appointed during next year’s World Health Assembly.
Merck, a leading science and technology company, announced today that the largest single delivery of praziquantel tablets in the history of the Merck Praziquantel Donation Program recently arrived in Abuja, the capital of Nigeria. The west African country has received around 34 million tablets for mass distribution to school children. With this, Merck has donated more tablets to a single country than it did to the entire continent in 2012 (27 million).
