By Ijeoma Ukazu | In a bid to addressing the plight of minority women and vulnerable groups in the society, a non governmental organization, the Mothers And Marginalised Advocacy Centre (MAMA Centre) has called for alls for adequate policy attention…
By Mayowa Adeniran | Save the Children International and the Lagos State Ministry of Health have been taking concerted efforts towards preventing pneumonia which has been identified as one of the diseases killing children under 5 in Lagos. Commemorating the…
The World Health Organization (WHO) finds that 18.3% of COVID-19 deaths in the African region are among people with diabetes, one of the conditions that global studies have found to increase the risk of severe illness and death among patients…
While combatting multiple public health challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government of Nigeria, with support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners relaunch an accelerated series of mass preventive vaccination campaigns to protect Nigerians against vaccine preventable…
MAYOWA adeniran | The World Health Organization (WHO) is supporting the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) to tackle the outbreak of Yellow Fever in Delta and Enugu States. The WHO will also empower Delta and Enugu States to investigate…
Despite Nigeria having achieved the wild polio-free certification, the Federal Government with the collaboration of other partners is leaving no stones unturned in making sure that all forms of poliovirus are no longer circulating in the country. The last case…
By Isaiah Owolabi, Project Director & Co-founder, HACEY Health Initiative “I want to have enough money to visit doctors when I want, and where I want.” Adeola, 23, is a graduate of HACEY’s Back on Track program at Ibafo, Ogun…
By Mayowa Adeniran | The Post Pregnancy Family Planning (PPFP) Project is supporting the Lagos state government to increase modern contraceptive uptake among women within the post-pregnancy period. The project which is being implemented across 184 private health facilities within…
By Mayowa Adeniran | As Nigeria joins the World to celebrate this year’s World Population Day, Development Communications Network (DevComs) has called on the Nigerian government to provide for the needs of women and girls. The group stated this in…
THE Federal Government through the Ministry of Women Affairs has launched a project to distribute about one million sanitary pads to women and teenage girls in the country in order to cushion the effect of COIVD-19. Dame Pauline Tallen, Minister…
