By Ijeoma Ukazu – As the last quarter of the year is rounding up, a non governmental organization, Public Health Sustainable Advocacy Initiative, PHSAI, has called on Lagos State Governor, Mr Akinwumi Ambode to release allocated fund for Family Planning,…
Halima Galadima wheels herself into the Dialysis Unit of Garki Hospital with the support of her teenage daughter on September 11. She is too weak to walk as she is overwhelmed by dizziness. In preparation for the day’s dialysis session,…
By Ijeoma Ukazu – Worried by the high rate of unsafe abortion, teenage pregnancy, drug abuse, sexually transmitted infection among teens between 13 to 19 years, a team of experts are advocating for early and proper health education for teens…
By Ijeoma Ukazu – To ensure family planning is embraced by women of reproductive age, the Nigerian Urban and Reproductive Health Initiative 2, (NURHI 2) has carried out a 72 hour make-over of some family planning unit in order to…
October 31st this year will mark the fourth year the National Health Act was passed into law. After a long, rigorous, but concerted advocacy championed by the Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, and Non-Governmental Organisations, NGOs, the act was signed on…
The United Nations (UN), through the Nigeria Humanitarian Fund, has allocated US$2 million to support the response to a deadly cholera outbreak in Yobe State, north-east Nigeria that could affect thousands of people.
Two hundred teachers selected from the 21 local government areas of Kebbi State are in the process of being trained in administering Unplugged, a novel school-based drug prevention programme in secondary schools throughout the State.
National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has seized a total of 35 containers of tramadol at various ports in Nigeria. Moji Adeyeye, the Director General said this on Sunday as she spoke to some journalists. She…
Under the Nigerian Labour Law passed in 2004, a woman working in the country’s civil service has the right to maternity leave of three months, as long as she provides a medical certificate stating she should not or cannot work.
The UN has said no fewer than 1.6 million people are killed annually by tuberculosis and the disease would cost about one trillion dollars in economic loss by 2050. “Despite being curable and treatable, TB kills more than 1.6 million…
