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Top Ten News Items on Health, 12 November 2021
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Business Day, 9 November 2021
Nigeria, 49 others pledge to end health sector emissions
One month after resident doctors in public hospitals across Nigeria called off a nine-week strike over poor pay, Nigeria has joined 49 others at the ongoing COP 26 Climate summit in the UK in pledging to cut greenhouse-gas emissions across its health systems, a...
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Daily Trust, 11 November 2021
Buhari cautions world leaders on the danger of hoarding COVID-19 vaccines
President Muhammadu Buhari has cautioned world leaders and global health institutions that sidelining countries in terms of access to COVID-19 vaccines will undermine the entire effort for safety. The President gave the warning while delivering a keynote...
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Daily Sun, 11 November 2021
Gender Imbalance: Nigeria at loss, groups assert
Conversations on the advancement of women in society took the front burner last week at a conference that maintained that Nigeria is at a loss if the question of gender imbalance is not addressed. At the 2021 Future of Health Conference on the theme “Breaking The...
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Daily Post,11 November 2021
More domestic, foreign resources needed to end TB in Nigeria – Health Minister, Ehanire
The Federal Government has said it is working to accelerate and scale its current efforts to mobilize the needed domestic and international resources to implement the National TB Strategic Plan 2021-2025. The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire disclosed this at...
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WHO Nigeria, 12 November 2021
WHO delivers solar panels to accredited polio laboratory in Borno State
In Maiduguri, Borno state, the World Health Organization Country Representative, Dr Walter Kazadi Mulombo, commissioned solar panels at the polio laboratory to support the state government in sustaining the intervention of essential health services. The project...
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Business Day, 7 November 2021
70% target since 2005: Nigeria not ready for local drugs manufacture
Nigeria is not ready to take over local manufacture of essentials drugs needed in the country, according to a group of drugs manufacturers under the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN). They lamented in Port Harcourt last weekend saying manufacturing...
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Punch, 10 November 2021
Govt trains e-waste collectors in health risks
The Lagos State Government, in collaboration with the Federal Government, has organised a training programme to expose electronic waste collectors in the state to the use of circular economy in reducing environmental health risks. The General Manager,...
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This Day, 11 November 2021
FG approves waiver for employment into health, defence, paramilitary
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has given a waiver for employment in health, defence and paramilitary to ensure that those who leave for greener pastures were replaced. Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige explained that the...
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Punch, 10 November 2021
Nigeria loses $8.9bn annually to violence, child marriage, says UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund in Abuja on Thursday said the Federal Government loses $8.9billion annually to violence, child marriage, and harmful practices affecting women and girls. According to UNICEF, Nigeria has the largest number of child marriages in Africa. The agency’s Chief Child Protection Officer, Ibrahim Sese, stated these during...
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Punch, 8 November 2021
221 completed health centres in 31 states yet to begin operation
No fewer than 221 completed primary healthcare centres across 31 states have yet to start operation, The PUNCH has learnt. This is as the Federal Government also revealed 43 others are currently under construction. The information was contained in a document...
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The Nigeria Family Planning Blueprint (2020–2024) has a set objective of achieving a modern contraceptive prevalence rate of 27 percent for women by 2024. In reality, according to the ‘2020 Statistical Report on Women and Men in Nigeria’ released in August by the National Bureau of Statistics, a little over 16 percent of women used contraceptives and the prevalence rate for modern methods is 12 percent. The report also revealed that over 83 percent of women did not use any contraceptives in 2018, as well as in 2019 when Nigeria reduced its yearly budget for family planning by almost 90 percent from N2.9bn to N300m; a directive that contradicted the country’s touted political and financial support for family planning...
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