The Executive Director of, the National Primary Healthcare Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr Faisal Shuaib, has said that the demand for Primary Healthcare services in the country has remained sub-optimal due to poor quality of care, low level of trust in the health system arising from misinformation and disinformation as well as social, cultural and geographical […]
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Sperm • Reduced semen motility, abnormal morphology leading causes of male infertility in regions, researchers find • Recommend general body cleansing, detoxification few months before conception Researchers in Nigeria and South Africa have raised the alarm on decreasing trend in quality of sperm in men from the two countries. The researchers in a study titled […]
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The Global Initiative for Asthma, GINA, the World Health Organization, WHO, and the Nigerian Thoracic Society, NTS, have called on world leaders to increase health budget in order to enhance access of their citizens to effective and quality medications, particularly, asthma patients. The bodies made the call on Tuesday, in commemoration of the 2023 annual […]
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Fake drugs Attorney General Alliance Africa Programme (AGA-Africa) in collaboration with policy makers of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) have rolled out the legal implications of fake medicines. They also rolled out strategies for safeguarding the pharmaceutical landscape in Nigeria and beyond from the nefarious activities of drug counterfeiters. Speaking at a two-day workshop […]
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A new document tagged ‘Situation at a glance’ on Meningitis in Nigeria, released yesterday, by World Health Organisation (WHO), showed that from October 1, 2022 to April 16, 2023, a total of 1,686 suspected cases, 532 confirmed cases and 124 deaths, with a Case Fatality Ratio (CFR) of seven per cent were reported from 81 […]
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A public health physician and Chief Executive Officer of Fest-Michelle Consultancy Services, Dr Festus Adetonwa, has advised men to examine their wives’ breasts before sucking them. He said there could be discharges from the breast like blood which men should always watch out for when engaging in the act. He said this at the grand […]
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The WHO said Wednesday that Covid-19 deaths had dropped by 95 percent since the start of the year — but warned the virus was still on the move. The World Health Organization said Covid-19 was here to stay and countries would have to learn how to manage its ongoing non-emergency effects, including post-Covid-19 conditions, or […]
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The abandoned hospital Residents in New Kutunku in the Gwagwalada Local Government Area of the Federal Capital Territory are bearing the brunt of a 12-year-old health facility abandoned by the Federal Capital Development Authority At New Kutunku, life is cheap, especially the lives of pregnant women, children, and senior citizens. Yet, a cottage hospital stands […]
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Extreme weather events in Malawi and Pakistan have driven a “very sharp” rise in malaria infections and deaths, a global health chief said ahead of World Malaria Day on April 25. Cases in Pakistan last year, after devastating floods left a third of the country under water, rose four-fold to 1.6 million, according to the […]
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About three weeks ago, precisely on April 6, 2023, the House of Representatives triggered outrage with a bill banning fresh doctors from Nigerian universities from traveling abroad to practice or further their education until they have put in five years of compulsory service in Nigeria’s health sector. If the bill, sponsored by a member representing […]
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