The Federal Government has signed a five-year, $5.1 billion bilateral health cooperation Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the United States to advance the America First Global Health Strategy with a…
Read More Nigeria, US sign $5.1bn MoU on health care cooperation with focus on Christian-run facilities
Iorfa Tor-Ayiin, a consultant family physician at the Federal Medical Centre, Makurdi, has advised Nigerians to undertake regular medical check-ups to prevent Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). Mr Tor-Ayiin gave the advice…
Read More Regular medical screening key to preventing hypertension, diabetes, says expert
The global fight against Lassa fever has recorded another breakthrough as the Oxford Vaccine Group administered the first dose of a new Lassa fever vaccine to a volunteer in the…
Read More Oxford begins first human trial of new Lassa Fever vaccine
Bill Gates, chair of the Gates Foundation, has warned that the number of children dying before their fifth birthdays is set to rise in 2025, for the first time since…
Read More Funding cuts to raise child deaths for first time since 2000, Bill Gates warns
South Africa, Eswatini, and Zambia were to begin on Monday administering a groundbreaking new HIV-prevention injection in the drug’s first public rollouts in Africa, which has the world’s highest HIV…
Read More Africa unveils groundbreaking HIV-prevention injection
