The Federal Government has launched a sixty-two-point-one-billion-naira Trust Fund to sustain efforts that are geared towards handling of HIV-AIDS related cases in Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari performed the launch of the private sector-led during a ceremony at the State House in Abuja. Meanwhile; the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Winnie Byanyima, has…
The United States government has supplied additional three point two million doses of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine to Nigeria. US Ambassador to Nigeria, Mary Beth Leonard, has visited the National Strategic Warehouse to see the latest supplies. Ambassador Leonard visited the facility together with the Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Doctor Faisal Shuaib.…
The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency has confirmed three hundred and ninety-five new cases of Circulating Mutant Poliovirus Type Two across twenty-seven states and the Federal Capital Territory. NPHCDA Executive Director, Doctor Faisal Shuaib, disclosed this in a statement, saying the outbreak was a result of the immunity gaps in children. He attributed this to low immunisation…
An American man has become the first person in the world to get a heart transplant from a genetically-modified pig. Fifty-seven-year-old David Bennett is reported to be doing well, three days after the transplant operation at the Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, which lasted for about seven hours. Bennett was considered unqualified for a human heart transplant…
Nurses and midwives working in health facilities of the Lagos State government are expected to return to work today after suspending their strike, which lasted for just twenty-four-hours. The Lagos State chapter of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives announced the suspension of the strike a day after reaching an agreement with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.…
French President Emmanuel Macron has warned he intends to make life difficult for people in France who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19. Macron gave the warning in an interview with France’s Le Parisien newspaper. His comments came as a bill on Covid passes was delayed by opposition lawmakers uniting against the government. A debate in parliament…