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Achieving polio eradication in Nigeria: Prospect and challenges

Ihesiulo Grace 21 June 2018 0

For more than two decades, polio had continue to constitute an intractable challenge to global public health and indeed the African Region. Polio was endemic in most countries in the African Region in the 1990s, with 12,000 cases reported each year in the Region. The virus was resilient and

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Health minister says JOHESU had no agreement with FG

Ihesiulo Grace 30 April 2018 0

Minister of Health Professor Isaac Adewole has clarified that the Federal Government had no existing agreement with the Joint Health Sector Union (JOHESU) to warrant this latest strike action. The minister who was reacting to some and advertorial in some national dailies however said that the government had already constituted a high level body to […]

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Group petitions Adeosun over mounting demurrage on donor drugs

Ihesiulo Grace 23 November 2017 0

……30 donor drugs containers incurring demurrage of $9,450 each, per day ……Increases 300,000 deaths by malaria per year or 830 death per day in Nigeria. The coalition of 16 organization under the aegis of the Country Coordinated Mechanism (CCM) Nigeria, comprising civil society, development partners, academia, MDAs and people living with HIV, TB and Malaria, […]

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FG seeks global elimination of illicit trade on tobacco products

Ihesiulo Grace 16 October 2017 0

Francesca Iwambe- Abuja The Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, on Monday said the best way to tackle the danger posed by illicit trade on tobacco products to public health, economy and the environment across the ECOWAS sub-region is for the member countries to embrace international ratification of the Protocol to Eliminate Illicit Trade in […]