Health
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Nigeria Has 7.3m Undernourished Adolescent Girls, Women Of Reproductive Age -UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that the number of Nigerian adolescent girls and women aged 15-49 years…
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135m People In Africa Have Ear, Hearing Problems- WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that an estimated 135 million people in Africa have ear and hearing problems.…
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Over Four Billion People Will Be Obese By 2035 – Report
More than half of the world’s population will be overweight or obese by 2035 without significant action, according to a…
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Nigeria Records 85 Lassa Fever Deaths In Six Weeks -NCDC
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said that eighty-five people in the country died from Lassa fever within…
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NCDC Commissions First Southwest Zonal Reference Laboratory
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) and the Ekiti State Government, with funding from the World Bank’s…
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FG Commissions Five Brachytherapy Machines For Cancer Treatment
In line with efforts to reduce the distance cancer patients have to travel for treatment, the Federal Government has commissioned…
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Africa May Account For 50% Of Global Childhood Cancer By 2050 -WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that if concrete steps were not taken to stem the tide of cancer,…
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WHO Elated As Nigeria Blazes Trail In TB Prevention, Treatment
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that Nigeria made an exponential increase in Tuberculosis (TB) case detection and also,…
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18.9m Nigerians Saved From River Blindness – Health Ministry
The Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) has announced a record-breaking stop treatment decision that frees nearly 18.9 million Nigerians in…
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NAFDAC, Benin Republic Destroy Tramadol, Pharmaceuticals Worth N95bn
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and the Government of Benin Republic have destroyed five…
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