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Gender-responsive support from Nigeria’s polio eradication programme to tackle COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy

Ibadan, 27 April 2022 - Fatunmobi Christiana, a nursing officer with…

Mr Aliyu Bello and his daughter to receive the routine Immunization

All-of- society approach is steppingstone for scaling up vaccination activities

Abuja, 26 April, 2022 - Cuddling his 14-week-old daughter, who had…

The Minister of health Osagie Ehanire, the WHO Country Rep, Walter K Mulombo, and cross section of participant at the even

WHO facilitates training of health workers on Oral Cholera vaccines for preparedness against cholera outbreaks x

Abuja, 26 April, 2022 - The World Health Organization (WHO) has…

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WHO conducts training on the integration of oral cholera vaccine in emergency and preventive situations

Abuja, 22 April, 2022 - The World Health Organization will be…

Stakeholders at the ministerial press briefing on World Health Day

WHO and stakeholders call for multisectoral approach towards climate change and other environmental threats to public health

Abuja, 8 April 2022 - As Nigeria joins the world to commemorate the…

Fatimah Saliu, uses firewood to prepare meals for her family.

Women using firewood face increasing health risks

Abuja, 7 April, 2021 - On a sunny afternoon in Dukpa village, a…

Mr Ede John Chimobi, a TB survivior

Tuberculosis is not a death sentence -survivor’s path to recovery

Akwa, 6 April, 2022 - When 29 years old Mr Ede John Chimobi, a native…

A patient taking TB drug.

Amidst COVID-19 response, WHO and partners support Nigeria towards attaining a TB free- status

Abuja, 31 March, 2022 - When Ms Tina Amos, a 42-year-old mother of…

Rukayat Yunsa, attending ante-natal service at the Kuchingoro PHC.

Closing access gaps, rural populace solicit for more functional primary healthcare centres

Abuja, 31 March, 2022 - Early in the morning on 24 September 2013,…

Doctors working on a sample at a laboratory in Obafemi Awolowo University

Nigeria bolsters laboratory capacity for antimicrobial resistance towards Universal Health Coverage

Abuja, 28 March, 2022 - Imagine a world where medical treatment of…