The World Health Organization (WHO) is to spend about =N= 2.7 million this year to support State Epidemiology teams to implement Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response (IDSR) activities in the country. This was dis…
Read moreEpidemiologists from WHO Africa and Eastern Mediterranean regions meet in Accra to discuss surveillance of diseases in the two regions 01 February 2002 -- Epidemiologists and Experts meeting in Accra to assess progres…
Read moreAfter more than two years without the detection of wild polio in Nigeria, the Government reported three laboratory confirmed wild poliovirus type one (WPV1) cases with onset between July and August 2016. All three cas…
Read moreKano, In Kano State, Nigeria, the recent integrated vaccination campaign that ended last week demonstrated the power of community-led action in advancing public health. From traditional leaders and religious figures to p…
Read moreAbuja – 04 May 2021- When health teams discovered pockets of vaccine-derived poliovirus outbreaks in seven states in Nigeria (Lagos, Delta, Bayelsa, Zamfara, Niger, Sokoto and Kebbi), national and state authorities in co…
Read moreOsogbo, 4 October, 2022 - At a prevalence rate 8.1%, Nigeria continues to have a high burden of hepatitis B as an estimated 20 million of its people are chronically infected
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