The World Health Organisation, WHO, on Wednesday called for urgent action across the world to achieve safe and sustainably managed water, sanitation and hygiene for all in order to prevent devastating impacts on the health of millions of people. Findings from WHO and UN-Water’s Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation …
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The Federal Government has warned Nigerians against buying antibiotics over the counter, saying it accelerates antimicrobial resistance and leads to avoidable deaths. The FG made this known on Friday at a press briefing to commemorate World Antimicrobial Awareness Week with the theme ‘Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance Together’. The government …
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The Edo State Government has banned the sale and usage of four syrups that are being investigated by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The medicines have been linked to kidney injury and death of over 66 children in The Gambia. They are Promethazine Oral Solution, Kofexmalin Baby Cough Syrup, Makoff …
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President Vladimir Putin of Russia says his country has approved a COVID-19 vaccine that works quite effectively, adding that his daughter has been vaccinated. According to Reuters, Russia has become the first country in the world to grant regulatory approval for a COVID-19 vaccine, after only two months of human …
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By Christopher Samuel That the ravaging COVID-19 which has since the beginning of the year spread rapidly around the globe could leave a very serious public health crisis in its wake is no longer news. In many parts of the world, attention is shifting to how to concretize local, regional …
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COVID-19 cases in Nigeria increased further on Wednesday with 284 cases reported by the country, despite efforts by authorities to flatten the curve of the pandemic. The new cases, confirmed by the specialist agency the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Twitter took the country’s total infections to 6,677 …
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Drug-resistant gonorrhoea spreads from an infected person’s throat during oral sex, the World Health Organisation has warned. The world health body says the human throat acts as a ‘silent reservoir’ for gonorrhoea, and that the problem is driving the drug-resistance crisis currently being experienced in the treatment of gonorrhoea. Drug-resistant …
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The Zamfara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulaziz Yari, on Tuesday attributed the renewed outbreak of meningitis which has claimed hundreds of lives in parts of the country to flagrant disobedience to God Specifically, he said fornication was the main reason God was punishing Nigeria with meningitis. He added that God decided to send …
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The European Union is supporting Nigeria with €36m (N7.65bn) to help fight indiscriminate drug production, trafficking and use. In his speech at the second national symposium on drugs and drug control held in Abuja, the EU’s Acting Head of Cooperation, Juan Urteaga-Casla, stated that the union was supporting the work …
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