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DELTA, Nigeria – The Delta State Government has commenced plans to establish its first neuropsychiatric hospital alongside a state-of-the-art public health laboratory, with both…
ABUJA, Nigeria – The World Health Organization (WHO) says investments made to eliminate polio are strengthening broader disease surveillance and outbreak response systems across…
GENEVA, Switzerland – The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Ebola outbreak has become the country’s largest on record, claiming 1,587 lives and infecting…
GENEVA, Switzerland – The World Health Organization (WHO) has stepped up efforts to strengthen meningitis response across countries by promoting regional collaboration, technical support…
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have launched a…
ABUJA, Nigeria — Half of all approved diagnostic tests for six priority epidemic-prone diseases in Africa cannot be used in most primary healthcare facilities,…
ABUJA, Nigeria – The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched the world’s first global database for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), providing governments, researchers and…
ABUJA, Nigeria – Africa’s leading public health agency has called for stronger international surveillance and cross-border cooperation after a humanitarian health worker who responded…
ABUJA, Nigeria – Nigeria’s investments during the COVID-19 pandemic have evolved into a powerful defence system against future disease outbreaks, with the National Agency…
MAKURDI, Nigeria – A senior medical doctor working with the AIDS Prevention Initiative in Nigeria has died from complications linked to Lassa fever in…
