Nigeria News

Abuja, 27 September, 2019 - On 28 September every year, Nigeria joins the world to raise awareness about dog mediated human rabies and highlight progress made in defeating the disease. This year’s theme ‘Rabies: Vaccinate to Eliminate’, focuses on ‘vaccination as the foundation of all rabies control efforts’ and highlights the need at individual and community level to ensure that dog vaccination should be considered a routine activity.

Abuja, 24 September, 2019 - An innovative technology using a mobile short message service (SMS)-based software is being used to improve the quality and sensitivity of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP) surveillance in Nigeria. Known as AVADAR (Audio-Visual Acute Flaccid Paralysis Detection and Reporting), this innovative technology is greatly assisting health workers and key community informants to timely detect and report AFP cases.

Lafia, 20 September 2019 - In a primary healthcare centre in the suburbs of Nasarawa State, Nurse Ayenajeh Sasefu carefully arranges vaccines for various diseases adhering to Government guidelines for vaccine management.  

“These vaccines are very sensitive”, she says, as she arranges the different vaccines according to their temperature sensitivity within the cold storage equipment.  “We usually store these vaccines with caution because if not properly handled, its potency can be reduced”, she adds. 

Abuja, 18 September 2019 - Nigeria joined the world in commemorating the first “World Patient Safety Day” on 17th September 2019 themed "Patient Safety: a global health priority. “

Abuja, 11 September, 2019 - As part of the activities leading to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) High-level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) to be held in New York on the 23 September 2019, the second edition of the Abuja Walk the Talk: “The Health for All Challenge” is being planned with the main aim of raising awareness about Universal Health Coverage (UCH). 

Maiduguri,  7 September 2019 - Experts from Nigeria and Niger Republic have reviewed cross-border surveillance strategies with a view to ensuring eligible children along inaccessible borders are protected from vaccine preventable diseases including measles and polio.

Abuja, 7 September, 2019 - To ensure synergy and achievement of maximum legislative impact towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Nigeria, the World Health Organization (WHO) supported the first-ever strategic retreat of Principal Officers of the five Health Committees of the National Assembly (NASS) in Abuja from 4-5 September 2019. 

Abuja, 7 September, 2019-The Federal Government, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO), Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and partners, is launching a Yellow Fever (YF) reactive vaccination campaign, in three States to help control an expanding YF outbreak in Nigeria identified in Ebonyi. 

Maiduguri, 3 September, 2019 - Bukar Mustapha, 60, has been displaced from his ancestral home in Kukawa since 2015. He  has been living with infection of the appendix for the past four years in Teachers’ village IDP camp in Borno state. 

Abuja, 30 August, 2019 - “My daughter will never be beautiful again, flies follow her around all day. The stigma has made her drop out of school and the contractures make her limp. I am afraid she will not find the husband of her choice”, says Mrs Chizoba Obiaru of Okrika Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State.

A 58-year-old mother, Mrs Obiaru’s 17-year-old daughter, Chinenye Obiaru is one of the 500 cases of Buruli Ulcer (BU) reported in 2018.