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The Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN), says it is collaborating with the Jigawa Government to establish an annual operational plan towards eliminating malaria in the state by 2020.
Mr Dennis Mordi, the IHVN Communications Manager, quoted the institute’s Senior Programme Officer, Strategic Information, Mr Charles Ohikhaui, saying this in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja. Ohikhaui stated that the annual operational plan would also guide the prevention and treatment of malaria in the state in 2017.
400 children still die from measles every day, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. According to the WHO and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the fight against measles is being hindered by a lack of political will to get every child immunized against the disease.
“Without this commitment, children will continue to die from a disease that is easy and cheap to prevent,” UNICEF's head of immunization, Robin Nandy said according to Reuters.
The Radiographers Registration Board of Nigeria, an agency of the Federal Government, has sealed a popular clinic in the Maitama area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
During an exercise that lasted for some hours on Monday, the agency arrested a practitioner alleged to be a quack radiographer. He is currently being detained at Maitama Police Station.
The drug, paracetamol, is one of the most commonly used medications around the world. It is a drug you can obtain easily across the counter even in the most advanced nations of the world, and it is available in so many different formats. You can get it as a tablet; caplet; syrup; suppository; an injection or an infusion. It is also available as a component of drug compounds in combination medications.
Paracetamol is used often for the treatment of aches, chills, feverish conditions, cramps and even headaches. Ordinarily, when you have administered it on your own for several days without obtaining the desired result, you ought to consult your doctor. In this part of the world, that is the exception. Sometimes, it is also used in conjunction with other drugs whose properties it accentuates, but also whose side effects it could help reduce. It is therefore, a very useful medication available to many around the world.
Lagos State Government has sanctioned some health workers in the state’s primary health centres for selling drugs, facilities and monetising other free services meant for the public.
Concerned about the rising costs and scarcity of essential medicines in the country, pharmacists under the aegis of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) have made recommendations to the federal government on how to reverse the anomaly.
No fewer than 9, 579 people were tested positive to HIV of the 616, 318 that attended the HIV Counselling and Testing (HCT) awareness programme from January to June, 2016. Dr Oluseyi Temowo, the Chief Executive Officer, Lagos State AIDS Control Agency (LSACA), made this known on Wednesday in Lagos. 
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday said the much awaited Health Insurance Scheme of the State would commence in early 2017, expressing readiness to partner with key players in the sector to use insurance to grow the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Lagos.
Following a recent Court of Appeal judgment that nullified monthly environmental sanitation in the state, the Lagos State Government on Wednesday officially terminated the exercise hitherto held for three hours on the last Saturday of every month.
The state government decision came on the heels of the re- deployment of the Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Mr. Akinyemi Ashade by the Lagos state governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode to take over as the Commissioner for Finance.
New UNAIDS report shows that people are particularly vulnerable to HIV at certain points in their lives and calls for a life-cycle approach to find solutions for everyone at every stage of life
Ahead of World AIDS Day on December 1, a new report by United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) shows that countries are getting on the Fast-Track, with an additional one million people accessing treatment in just six months (January to June 2016). By June 2016, around 18.2 million [16.1 million–19.0 million] people had access to the life-saving medicines, including 910 000 children, double the number five years earlier. If these efforts are sustained and increased, the world will be on track to achieve the target of 30 million people on treatment by 2020.
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The National Agency for Food, Drugs, Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it has destroyed expired drugs, food, drinks and cosmetics worth N21 million in Nasarawa State. The Acting NAFDAC Director-General, Mrs Yetunde Oni, disclosed this on Thursday, November 24, during the destruction in Lafia.
Oni represented by Alhaji Abubakar Jimoh, Director, Special Duties, said that the periodic destruction exercise was one of NAFDAC’s strategies to prevent the circulation of fake, counterfeit medicines and unwholesome products in the country.
Chinese scientists on Thursday discovered 1,445 new RNA virus species, and this is expected to facilitate future studies in virus evolution and the origins of life. Zhang Yongzhen, researcher with Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, said in Beijing.
Yongzhen said the research was led by a team of scientists at the CDC, with the findings published online in the journal Nature.
Pneumonia Replaces Malaria As Number One Child Killer Disease in Nigeria – Report
Pneumonia has overtaken malaria as the number one killer disease among children under the age of five in Nigeria. A report by the International Vaccines Access Centre (IVAC) revealed that the disease was responsible for 127,000 child deaths in the country last year.
This was disclosed on Monday in Abuja at an event held to mark the World Pneumonia Day
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported a 47.4 per cent rise in blood pressure measurements, from nearly 20 million people all over the world, in 40 years.
The results of the largest ever study of its kind, which involved the WHO and hundreds of scientists throughout the world, found that the number of adults with raised blood pressure increased from 594 million in 1975 to 1·13 billion in 2015, with the increase largely in low-income and middle-income countries.
