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The National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has agreed to suspend its strike. The NARD reached the decision on Tuesday, June 21, 2016, after a meeting with other health officials.
The strike will be suspended till the association holds another meeting on July 14.
Experts have said maternal mortality rate is on a steep increase in the country largely due to poor funding,ignorance, and underutilization of the 13 essential life-saving commodities for women and children recommended by the United Nations.
Speaking on the side-lines of a stakeholders meeting in Abuja yesterday, the national coordinator, Civil Society for Family Planning (CSFP), Mr Adeleye Adewale, said the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) report of 2013 puts maternal mortality rate at 576 deaths per 1,000 live births, adding that the new report which is likely to be out soon, may even have a larger figure.
The verdict is out: Adults and children with Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) who start antiretroviral therapy (ART) as early as possible reduce their risk of developing serious HIV-related infections. The new findings were published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases on June 15, 2016.
Congolese Health Minister Felix Kabange on Tuesday said the World Health Organisation (WHO) has sent over 11 million doses of yellow fever vaccines to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).
Kabange made the statement while speaking with newsmen in Kinshasa during a meeting to assess the situation of yellow fever outbreak in the country.
The minister of health, Prof Isaac Adewole has given his first assignment and litmus test to the director-general of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Dr Abdusalami Nasidi on the reported case of nutritional emergency in Borno State, where it has been estimated that eight children might die daily as a result of malnutrition.
The minister who gave the charge on Monday, at the conference room of the Centre during the opening ceremony and inaugural meeting of the governing board of the ECOWAS Regional Centre for Disease Control (RCDC), said NCDC needs to as a matter of urgency, dispatch a rapid emergency team to Borno state.
Taraba State governor, Darius Ishaku has said that his administration will not relent in the efforts to reduce maternal and child mortality in the state.
Ishaku, who stated this yesterday in Jalingo during the occasion of the flag-off ceremony for the maternal newborn and child health week said the state government has put in place clear-cut policies and programmes for the provision of maternal and child health care.
Joint Health Sector Unions & Assembly Of Health Care Professionals Communique
RE — COMMENCEMENT OF 7 DAYS WARNING STRIKE 
Imagine having a child that was normal at birth, but suddenly after 24 months the child’s skills begin to regress? Imagine having to take care of a child with disability without knowing what to do or where to go? If you can imagine these, then, you will appreciate what a number of Nigerian parents who have children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, ASD, are currently going through. 
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams in Maradi, Niger are trialling a first-of-its-kind, thermo-stable vaccination for Rotavirus, a highly infectious disease that causes severe diarrhea and dehydration, killing an estimated 450 000 children around the world each year.
“Vaccines for Rotavirus do exist and the disease is completely preventable,” says Dr Stephen Nurse-Findlay, one of the hosts of Al Jazeera’s award-winning medical show, The Cure. “But these vaccines must be kept below eight degrees celsius, which makes it difficult to reach children in remote communities where resources are limited, and where the temperature can often soar.”
A civil society group Evidence for Action, E4A, has called on Nigeria government to make health budget transparent to be able to revamp the sector.More...
The management of Nigeria’s premier University and teaching Hospital, University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, Oyo State, has taken delivery of an ultra-modern laboratory unit.
The Federal Government has pledged its commitment towards supporting breastfeeding and improving funding to Scale -up nutrition and breastfeeding practices across the country.
The wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari made this known today in Abuja, during the Launch of 2016 Lancet Series on Breastfeeding and High – level Policy Dialogue on Promoting Breastfeeding for National Development in Nigeria.
Gov. Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State has approved the establishment of clinical laboratory research centre in the state to serve as research training and services centre for HIV, Lassa fever and emerging viruses.
A new study has revealed that mothers who take paracetamol during pregnancy may be increasing the risk of their children developing autism. Published in the Journal of Epidemiology, the study found that children exposed to paracetamol during pregnancy were at a 30 per cent increased risk of losing some attention functions.
Even though the painkiller is usually given to pregnant women, researchers say they have now identified an association between exposure to the drug and subsequent autism in boys.
