The Federal Government has approved Sayana Press injectable contraceptive for self-injection by users, a change which advocates hope will improve access to the product.

The United Kingdom has already approved self-injection. Other countries are considering doing the same.

Consultant, Public Health, University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Dr. Bodeno Ehis, says no fewer than 100,000 new cases of cancer are diagnosed yearly in Nigeria.

In a speech entitled: “Cancer Awareness and Prevention’’at a lecture in honour of the late Mrs. Omawunmi Udoh, a lawmaker in Delta State House of Assembly on Sunday in Warri, he observed that the figure accounted for 12.5 per cent globally.

Over 1,222 students of Queens College (QC) in Yaba, Lagos State have been reportedly treated at the school’s clinic for abdominal pain, fever, vomiting and diarrhea.

In a report by SaharaReporters, a recent laboratory report shows that since the beginning of January 2017, several students of the institution have been treated for various pipe borne water and other diseases.

Akwa Ibom is to begin its first-ever survey of HIV/AIDS statewide to fill gaps in its data about the condition. Some 3,257 households and 16,936 individuals, including 7,791 children, are mapped to be sampled across all 31 local government areas of the state starting on April 1.

The survey is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with technical support from FHI360 under a project called Strengthening Integrated Delivery of HIV/AIDS Services (SIDHAS).

Gov. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State on Wednesday solicited the assistance and cooperation of the World Bank to boost delivery of healthcare service in the state.

Akeredolu made the appeal when he received Nigeria State Health Investment Project (NSHIP) comprising National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, World Bank, among others in Akure. He expressed interest to work with the World Bank while appreciating its efforts in healthcare so far.

Any parent or caregiver, who prevents a child from receiving the polio vaccine, risks a two-year jail term, an official of a Niger State Government agency said on Monday in Minna.

Dr. Yahaya Nauzo, the Executive Director of the states Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA), made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).`The law establishing the SPHCDA, specifically sections 23 to 28, has made the rejection of immunisation services a criminal offence. Such offenders are liable to two years jail term, or a fine of N50,000, or both, he said.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday that cancer killed no fewer than 8.8 million people every year. According to figures from WHO, each year, 8.8 million people die from cancer, mostly in low- and middle-income countries.

The figure WHO said is so high that is accounts for two and a half times more people killed than those who die from HIV and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.