Global Vaccine Alliance (GAVI), the World Health Organisation and the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday announced that 12 African countries would receive malaria vaccine. The...
Ministers of Health, Osagie Ehanire, and the Minister of State for Health, Joseph Nkama on Tuesday stated that Nigeria needs N1.89 trillion to reduce malaria prevalence...
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) says it has contributed $768 million dollars to Nigeria’s fight against malaria from 2011 to date. This is contained...
The World Health Organisation has recommended the widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine to specifically fight high P. falciparum malaria transmission. The P. falciparum...
The Cross River State governement has reiterated it’s commitment to end the scourge of malaria in the state, and has called on its partners and other...
Hussaini, aged 5, is being treated for malaria in MSF Gwange hospital (Maiduguri, Borno), cared for by his grandmother, Hajja. “He has been having this sickness...
It is the malaria peak season in Borno, north-east Nigeria, and Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Gwange district in Maiduguri, treats children under...
The number of deaths caused by malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa could double to 769,000 this year, as efforts to curb the disease are disrupted by the...
No fewer than 26 Nigerian women die daily as a result of cervical cancer, a Radiologist, Prof. Ifeoma Okoye, said Saturday in Lagos. Okoye, also the...
By Tahir Sherrif From sunrise to sunset, endless queues of skinny children, breast-feeding mothers and fever stricken youths in the different poorly funded hospitals of Nigeria....
NAN The World Health Organisation, on Friday, said 90 per cent of estimated 627,000 deaths caused by malaria in the world in the last two years...
