Africa Health Times

The Nigerian government on Thursday revealed it was ‘anxiously’ waiting for the result of pilot RTSS/ASO1, the world’s first antimalarial vaccine, recently introduced in Malawi. Success of the vaccine, the government said, would catalyze…

Latest data released by the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) have revealed how four million children under one year old in Nigeria missed out on first dose of measles vaccine in 2017. The data, which were made available to Africa…

Kills 58 The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Wednesday said 15 states across Nigeria had recorded outbreaks of meningitis. Also, 58 people have died of the disease “in 2018/2019 season,” the agency revealed. In…

United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) is set to launch a social media campaign by the name “VaccinesWork” to promote global support for immunization. The campaign, to be launched on 24 April, 2019, is to further convince the world that…

Over 3,500 children were among residents of Nigeria’s north-east who were forced into joining terrorist and other violent groups in the last five years, United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday, April 12. In a…

To probe causes of all maternal deaths The Nigerian government on Monday April 8 declared a State of Emergency on maternal and child mortality in the country. Also, the government announced that for every death of any…

The initiative enables line managers to interact with field data on “Smart Touch Screens,” and the platform uses mobile phones for conducting active case searches for priority diseases and routine immunization assessments at health facility…

The Federal Government has renewed the appointment of Prof. Auwal M. Abubakar as the Medical Director, Federal Medical Centre, Yola, Adamawa State, for a second and final term of four years. The appointment takes effect from 2nd …

“Each day, nearly 4,500 people lose their lives to TB and close to 30,000 people fall ill with this preventable and curable disease. Global efforts to combat TB have saved an estimated 54 million lives since the year 2000 and reduced the TB…