By Ijeoma Ukazu | The United Nations Children’s Fund, (UNICEF) has said that almost 15 percent of global AIDS-related deaths in children and adolescents globally occur in Nigeria. In a report released to mark the 2020 World AIDS Day, UNICEF…
A six-month Media-in-Health-Care-Accountability Project through which the International Press Centre hopes to facilitate the emergence of a corps of next generation investigative health reporters is commencing this December. The project seeks to enhance the capacity of the media and younger…
The World Health Organization (WHO) and immunization experts in the African Region have called on countries and health stakeholders to prioritize immunization services – which have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic – in order to protect children and communities…
By Ijeoma Ukazu | As the Network of Reproductive Health Journalists, Nigeria marks its 10 years of existence, it is calling on all stakeholders to ensure quality sexual reproductive health care services among all Nigerians especially women and young girls.…
The Lagos State Health Management Agency (LASHMA), in its commitment to ensure that residents at the grassroots have access to affordable, effective and quality healthcare, has partnered with First Bank of Nigeria Limited to utilise its over 13,000 Firstmonie Agents…
The Federal Government Thursday formally launched the Group, Individual and Family Social Health Insurance Programme (GIFSHIP), which offers citizens an opportunity to participate and benefit from health insurance, especially for those not currently captured under any form of health insurance…
A non-governmental organisation, Florence Modupe Foundation (FMF), has donated educational and food materials to visually-impaired pupils at the Federal Nigeria Society for the Blind in Oshodi, Lagos state. Speaking at the event held recently at the Centre in Lagos, Bukola…
By JOAN Yakub | Olayide Akanni, Executive Director, Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS), has disclosed that the COVID-19 pandemic has eroded the consciousness of people to HIV/AIDS infection which has led to an increase in the number of positive cases over…
By Ijeoma Ukazu | The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has said at least 36 percent of women who have ever been married have experienced one form of violence from their spouse or the other. UNICEF’s Child Protection specialist, Dr.…
By Ijeoma UKAZU | The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has warned of the damaging effects caused by COVID-19 as its growing consequences on children is threatening irreversible harm to education, nutrition and general well-being saying, the pandemic is lurching…
