HEALTH

Gonorrhoea: Hope for possible vaccine

Daily Dispatch July 11, 2017

For the first time, a vaccine a vaccine has tested positive to abilities to act as protection against gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted infection. Sscientists in New Zealand say study of 15,000 young people, published in the Lancet, showed infections were cut by about a third. This is coming

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HIV/AIDS: 1m Nigerians may die by 2022 – DG NACA

Daily Dispatch July 10, 2017

Dr. Sani Aliyu, the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, has said Nigeria must take full sponsorship of its HIV/AIDS programme or risk losing one million of its citizens currently living with the disease before 2022. Aliyu stated this while fielding questions from State House correspondents in Abuja on Sunday. He […]

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Lassa Fever hits FGC, Langtang, I student confirmed dead

Daily Dispatch July 9, 2017

Plateau health commissioner Kuden Deyin has confirmed the death of one student, while two others have been hospitalised, following an outbreak of Lassa Fever at the Federal Government College, Langtang. “Yes, there was an outbreak of Lassa Fever at the Federal Government College, Langtang; it has claimed one life while two others are in the […]

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How N58m SUV landed NHIS ES in trouble — and earned him suspension

Daily Dispatch July 7, 2017

Usman Yusuf, executive secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), has been suspended for three months by the minister of health, Isaac Adewole, over allegations of fraud. In a letter dated July 6, 2017 seen by TheCable, Adewole said Yusuf’s response to the petitions written against him were “considered unsatisfactory”. An investigative committee to […]

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More funding needed to meet global water, sanitation targets – Report

Daily Dispatch July 7, 2017

The 2017 UN-Water Global Analysis and Assessment of Sanitation and Drinking-Water report has underscored the need for countries to commit more resources to meet SDGs targets on water and sanitation by 2030. News Agency of Nigeria  (NAN) reports that the analysis came against the backdrop of a report that almost two billion persons around the […]

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MSF urges G20 to take action on health issues

Daily Dispatch July 7, 2017

The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) called on G20 leaders to follow through on the declaration made by their health ministers in late May.MSF welcomed the acknowledgement by G20 health ministers in their declaration that critical health issues such as drug-resistant infections, including tuberculosis (TB), and attacks on