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President Tinubu Appeals to Nigerian Health Practitioners in the Diaspora

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, during the unveiling of Nigeria’s Health Sector Renewal Investment Initiative, pled with the Nigerian Doctors in the diaspora to...

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Deadliest Diphtheria Outbreak in West Africa Yet: Examining the Global Health Implications

17,000 suspected cases, below-par National Vaccination coverage, and a completely broken Primary Health Care System are what now stands between Nigeria and a...

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Game-Changing Milestone: FDA Approves First Gene Interventions to Treat Patients with Sickle Cell Disease

The FDA(Food and Drug Administration) has approved two remarkable gene therapies, Casgevy and Lyfgenia, to manage sickle cell disease (SCD). In a press...

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Addressing Policy and Regulatory Challenges in Scaling Up NTD Eradication Efforts

The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) plan 2021-2030 in 2021, kicking off a decade committed to governing, eliminating,...

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Growing Concerns Surround the Respiratory Illness in China

Last Monday, the WHO requested information from China over “an increase in respiratory illnesses and reported clusters of pneumonia in children.” According to...

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Breaking News: Anthrax Claims Lives of 17 People in Uganda

As reported by AFP on Thursday, a local official said “the situation is under control” after at least 17 people died of anthrax...

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Hope on the Horizon: Malaria Vaccine to Reach Cameroon’s Population in 2024

Following the arrival of the first consignment of malaria vaccines in Cameroon on Wednesday, November 22 2023, the United Nations announced the imminent...

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Voices from the Frontline: A British-Palestinian Doctor’s Perspective on Gaza Hospitals amid the Israel-Hamas Conflict

Addressing a press conference in London, the UK-based Surgeon revealed how the nature of the injuries he treated evolved over time. “On my...

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Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act 2017

The Nigerian Senate passed the Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshots Bill on July 11, 2017. The Bill guarantees that victims of...

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Legitimacy of LGBTQ in Nigeria

The representatives of a coalition of civil societies in Nigeria on Monday publicly warned the Federal government of Nigeria against signing the EU-ACP...

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Do Africans want a change in skin colour?

It is no longer a matter of secrecy that skin lightening or bleaching is the order of the day among African Women and...

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World Toilet Day: LASG and Harpic Holds Campaign Against Open Defecation

World Toilet Day is about inspiring and helping to cultivate the habit of the global sanitation crisis. Established by the World Toilet Organization...