Nigeria is listed as one of the 15 countries most hit by food and nutrition crises due the humanitarian crises in the Northeast. The situation is predicted to get worse in 2023 if actions are not taken. According to the World Food Programme (WFP), because of the armed conflict affecting Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa, 4.4 […]
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Nearly 40 million children around the world are at risk of measles disease as vaccination coverage has steadily suffered setbacks since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organisation (WHO) says. The organisation, in a news release, explains that the decline in vaccines coupled with the diminishing surveillance of the disease, and delays […]
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With an estimated 19.9 million survivors, Nigeria accounts for the third highest number of women and girls who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation worldwide, a new report revealed. In May 2015, former Nigerian President Ebele Jonathan signed Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act against FGM and all other gender-based violence in the country, but the […]
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Turkey is set to donate 100,000 doses of the Chinese SINOVAC vaccine to Gabon, Osman Ahad Gun, Charge d’Affaires at the Turkish Embassy in Gabon said. Ahad Gun disclosed this at a meeting to discuss when and how the vaccines would be made available to the government of Gabon. The meeting was held on Thursday, […]
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Adam Bulama Modu, 25, walks with great difficulty. When he sits, he does so carefully too. Because of a huge, painful swelling in his belly, as well as other symptoms that come with abdominal tuberculosis, the young man has had a tough life. His health took a sharp turn for the worse over six years […]
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Authorities in the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) say the country is recording a daily spike in COVID-19 cases. Dr Gilbert Ndziessi, the country’s Coordinator of the National Technical Committee for the Fight Against the COVID-19, said on Tuesday Jan. 4, that over 100 COVID-19 positive cases were recorded daily in the country as against 30 […]
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has commenced an oral cholera vaccination (OCV) after a recently concluded cholera vaccination campaign in Jigawa State, Northwest Nigeria. As of the second week of Oct. 90,908 suspected cases were recorded and over 3,000 deaths have been reported across 32 states since the beginning of the year, according to WHO. […]
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has approved a malaria vaccine for children in Africa. The vaccine which is called RTS,S – was proven effective six years ago. Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO, announced the development at a press briefing on Wednesday. Dr Ghebreyesus, said it was “a historic moment. The long-awaited malaria vaccine for […]
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A coalition of organisations and experts have launched a roadmap in prevention and control of meningitis globally by 2030. The coalition, which includes the United States Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Epicentre the Meningitis Research Foundation, PATH, UNICEF, the Gates Foundation, and […]
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World Health Organisation (WHO) staff in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been accused of sexual violence on women in the country. A recently published report by an independent commission set up in Oct. 2020 by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO Director General, bemoaned “structural weaknesses and individual negligence” by staff and the WHO administration […]
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has received 250,380 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine donated by the United States government under the auspices of the COVAX initiative. This is the second consignment of vaccines donated by the American government to the DR Congo coming a few weeks after the reception of 250,000 doses of the […]
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The United States government has donated a consignment of 100,620 doses of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to the government of Gabon within the context of the COVAX initiative. The vaccines were formally handed over to the Gabonese government on Wednesday, Sept. 23 by Christopher Tramann, the interim Chargee d’Affaires at the US Embassy in […]
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