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… Calls on Countries To Work Towards Eliminating It, Achieving SDGs The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti has hinted that malaria remains...

…Hails WHO For Organizing Training On Integration Of Oral Cholera Vaccine (OCV) The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire has said that cholera outbreaks has...

Federal government has said that, the environmental catastrophe has exacerbated noncommunicable diseases, enhanced an ecology where many infectious diseases thrive, deteriorated air quality, food...

…Can Now Produce Vaccine The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has been recognised as a maturity three regulatory agency by...

Dr Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, recalled that during the UN High-Level Meeting on Tuberculosis in 2008, world leaders agreed to mobilize...

Since Russia's military offensive in Ukraine began on February 24, WHO has worked around the clock to ensure a steady flow of health supplies...

More than half of parents and pregnant women (51%) believe they have been targeted with marketing by formula milk firms, much of which is in violation of international rules on infant feeding practices, according to a new WHO/UNICEF report. The report, How Formula Milk Marketing Influences Our Infant Feeding Decisions, is based on interviews with parents, pregnant women, and health professionals in eight countries: Bangladesh, China, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam.  It reveals the formula milk industry's systematic and unscrupulous marketing methods for influencing parents' newborn feeding decisions. According to the research, industry marketing strategies include uncontrolled and intrusive web targeting, sponsored assistance networks and helplines, promotions and free gifts, and promotions and free gifts; and practices to influence training and recommendations among health workers. The messages that parents and health workers receive are often misleading,...

The Japanese Government through the COVAX facility on Wednesday gifted Nigeria with 859,600 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine and 175 Solar Direct drive Refrigerators to...