Sam EFERARO

The Ministry of Health of South Sudan, with support from the World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other partners, on Monday January…

Uganda’s disease surveillance system was recently put to a rigorous test when two people, contacts of confirmed Ebola Virus Disease cases in DRC crossed into the country through Kasindi Point of Entry (PoE) on 20th January 2019. The…

According to Graceanne Svendsen, the practice manager at Shafer Plastic Surgery and Laser Center in New York City, anal bleaching which he also calls “unisex intimate bleaching”,  is the process of applying chemicals to the skin around…

The World Health Organization (WHO) is scaling up response to the Lassa fever outbreaks in states across Nigeria to strengthen rapid containment of the disease.  To this end, the organization  is mobilizing experts to intervene in…

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries said a European Medicines Agency (EMA) panel on Friday recommended approving migraine treatment Ajovy, a drug that the company has been counting on to revive its fortune. Ajovy was approved by…

Almost five years have passed since he nearly died of Ebola in Liberia, but Richard Sacra has never wavered from his commitment to the struggling West African nation. The 56-year-old family doctor from Massachusetts was among a…

  Following the success of the first cycle of its Boys’ Conversation Café (BCC) Initiative, Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF), has kicked off the second cycle of this project to educate a wider range of boys in Nigeria…

Concerned by increasing level of drug usage in Nigeria, a drop-in treatment centre has been opened for women by the United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC), the European Union (EU) in collaboration with the Centre for…

No fewer than 14.3 million people (14.4 per cent of Nigerian’s population) in the age group of 15 to 64 years abused drugs such as tramadol, codeine and cannabis within the past one year. This is the highlight of  the first ever…

As Ebola outbreak rages on in Congo, vaccine giant Merck has announced plans to ship another 120,000 doses of its  experimental vaccine to aid officials combating the virus. Associate Vice President Lydia Ogden told the…