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The National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA) today, unveiled a simplified version of the HIV/AIDs Anti-Discrimination Act 2014 to aid better understanding and maximum utilization of the provisions.
NACA's DG, Prof John Udoko who did the unveiling in Abuja said the law needed to be broken down into everyday language devoid of legal terminologies so that people can understand it.
He said "Nigeria is one of the few countries in the world with an anti-discrimination law related to HIV/AIDs. Making a popular version of this law available will result in increased demand for testing services and improved quality of life for people living with HIV in Nigeria."
The World Tuberculosis Day was marked worldwide on Thursday March 24, the 134th anniversary of Dr. Robert Koch’s discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, with a call by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for new commitments and new action in the global fight against tuberculosis – one of the world’s top infectious killers.
However, while WHO seems happy that there has been tremendous progress in recent years as the world is on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal of reversing the spread of TB by 2015 the story in Nigeria was not so impressive.
The Lagos State Government says it is finalising policy on treatment guideline for people living with Sickle Cell Disorder, even as the disorder has been declared as a major public health issue.
Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who made the disclosure at a seminar organized by National Sickle Cell center in collaboration with Sickle Cell Non Governmental Organisations, stakeholders and those living with the disorder in Lagos, said the disorder had become an emergent health concern, given the data of 300, 000 to 500, 000 children born with it yearly in Africa.
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), in collaboration with the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy in Nigeria (CECP), has concluded plan to acquire Mobile Cancer Centre (MCC) in the country. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara has sponsored the treatment of about 5, 000 patients who suffer from various ailments from 20 local government areas of Bauchi state.
The free medical services which commenced yesterday at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital [ATBUTH], Bauchi will be rendered by a team of professional doctors known as ‘Doctors on the move Africa’ and would last for two weeks.
The WHO Emergency Committee on Tuesday said the Ebola situation in West Africa no longer constitute public health emergency and as such the temporary recommendations adopted in response should now be terminated.
This information is contained in a statement issued after the ninth meeting convened by the WHO. The Committee also noted that since its last meeting, all the three concerned countries had met the criteria for confirming interruption of their original chains of Ebola virus transmission.
The Global Fund Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has agreed to give Mali 170 million dollars to promote prevention and fight against HIV/AIDS.
Executive Director, Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Michel Sidibe, said on Wednesday after meeting with Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita in Bamako.
He said at a press conference that the fund has renewed its partnership with Mali by giving the country over 100 billion CFA Francs. “This is a clear demonstration of the good working relationship.
A splinter group has dissociated itself from the 14-day strike ultimatum given to the Adamawa State Government by the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria (MHWUN). 25 GenXpert Machines donated by Chevron and other partners to assist Tuberculosis care
A Chevron Company, Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited and its Co-Venturers in the Agbami oil field project have announced plans to kick off a tuberculosis (TB) campaign to raise awareness of the deadline disease in Kano, Lagos, Kaduna and River States.
The campaign is aimed at sensitizing people on the dangers, prevention, management and treatment of TB.
As part of efforts to reduce the health care challenges in the nation, the Federal Government of Nigeria has announced plans to address inadequate facilities in 10,000 primary health care centres across the country.
The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, disclosed the plan in Abuja, according to Channels TV reports, stating that the Federal Government was committed to improving the health care needs of Nigerians in order to sustain the progress so far recorded in the health sector.
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A fake gynecologist recently arrested by the police in Ibadan, has been disowned by a hospital she claimed to have worked for.
Dammy Ojo, whose actual name is Miss Damilola Ojo, was reported to have defrauded unsuspecting residents of over N23 million, had told the police that she began her career as a nurse, with an Oyo-based private health institution, Goodswills Hospital.
Management Sciences for Health (MSH), an organisation which supports health projects in 19 states in Nigeria, has expressed concern on health indices in the country. It said it was unacceptable that more than 150 women die every day due to preventable causes while 2,300 children die daily and another one in five Nigerian children will not celebrate the 5th birthday.
Speaking at MSH's 10th anniversary, the Country Representative, Dr Zipporah Kpamor, said, “We believe that the situation is not hopeless as indicated by the interruption of the wild polio virus transmission and recent success with the control of the Ebola epidemic show.
The group Community Health and Research Initiative (CHR) says its analysis of Niger states 2016 budget presented to the state legislature did not provide adequate funding for routine immunisation.
The finding is the outcome of a scorecard on Nigers budgeting presented by CHR as a coalition of civil society organisations and media working on routine immunisation met in Minna, with directors of Niger State Primary Health Care Development Agency, according to a statement.
The World Health Organisation (WHO), has said that the world is facing an "unrelenting march" of diabetes which now affects nearly one-in-11 people. 
