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Source: This article was first published on Nigeria Health Watch  Cervical Cancer is the most common female cancer in developing countries, with approximately 500,000 new cases and 250,000 deaths each year. In Nigeria, it

Every single day, Nigeria loses about 145 women of childbearing age, making her the second largest contributor to the maternal mortality rate in the world, according to UNICEF. When this

Hundreds of people have walked in and out the doors of the Society for Family Health (SFH) Nigeria, one of Nigeria’s leading non-governmental organisation headquartered in the nation’s federal capital

When people think of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa, often the image is one of a generalised heterosexual epidemic. Yet, whilst injecting drug use has long been acknowledged as a

The Registrar, Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria, Alhaji Faruk Umar has enjoined northern states to establish more schools of nursing and midwifery.   He said such would provide needed

Isaac Adewole, the minister of health, on Tuesday, announced the ban on chloroquine and artemisinin monotherapy for the treatment of malaria. Speaking during the commemoration of World Malaria Day, the

DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hundreds of thousands of Nigerians could starve to death in the famine-threatened northeast due to lack of aid funds, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.

World Breastfeeding Week is celebrated by over 170 countries around the world to commemorate the Innocent Declaration signed in August 1990 by government policy makers, WHO, UNICEF and other organizations

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