Category: Health

The Executive Director, Balanced Stewardship Development Association (BALSDA), Mr Adeleye Adewale, says that Nigerian government is committed to increase Modern Contraceptive Prevalence Rate, to achieve 27 percent by 2020. Adeleye, who stated this in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State capital, during the launching of Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan (CIP) for the state, was assisted by […]

Optometrist with the FCT Public Health Department examines four-year-old Fatima Ibrahim. Her younger brother, mother and health worker look on THE Federal Capital Territory Public Health Department has carried out eye screening at Ruga, close to Abuja City Gate, where children are going blind due to itchy eye infection. The ICIR first reported how more […]

• as WHO says 350 million infected globally, many unknowingly infected with virus A gastroenterologist at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Prof Jesse Otegbayo, has said that about 23 million Nigerians are living with Hepatitis B, the virus said to predispose sufferers to liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. Speaking with Sunday Tribune, the health […]

The Bayelsa State Government says it has concluded arrangements to establish a University of Medical Sciences in the state. The Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Mr. Daniel Iworiso-Markson, said in a statement that Governor Seriake Dickson had already forwarded a bill to the Bayelsa State House of Assembly for the establishment of the Bayelsa Medical […]

A document that would provide direction for a sustainable family planning programme in Ekiti State has been launched by the state government. Titled Family Planning Costed Implementation Plan, CIP, the document encloses the detailed activities, strategies, goals and indicators to address all components towards achieving the state’s vision on family and reproductive health covering 2019 […]

Aliko Dangote Foundation and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have expressed commitments to reduce malnutrition in Nigeria through improved quality fortification of foods. They made the pledge during the Food Processing and Nutrition Leadership Forum in Lagos where chief executives of leading food processing companies committed to adequate fortification in major food staples by 2020. […]

These children in Ruga are going blind with itchy eye infections IT begins with itching. Swelling of the eyes follows. The swollen eyelids tighten up and the children are unable to open their eyes. More than 20 children are having an eye infection in Ruga, a remote settlement around the Abuja City Gate, close to […]

The Federal Ministry of Health has recalled 2.4 million bottles of cough syrup containing codeine after a recent audit of the substance carried out by National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC). According to a statement by Mrs Boade Akinola, Director Media and Public Relations of the ministry on Sunday in Abuja, […]

Twenty world leading HIV scientists have debunked some assumptions and myths about HIV infection, as they launched an evidence-based consensus that systematically refutes the rationale for laws that criminalise its spread. The 20 global experts, in HIV research, epidemiology and patient care issued the consensus at the 22nd International AIDS Conference(AIDS 2018) in Amsterdam, Netherlands […]