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WHO: Contaminated Benylin Cough Syrup No Longer Available in Africa On Monday, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a statement that the contaminated batch of Benylin Paediatric Syrup...

NAFDAC Cracks Down on Counterfeit Products in Abuja, Seizes Goods Worth N50 Million In a recent operation, the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC)...

Gombe LG Targets 131,815 Under-Five Children for Polio Vaccination The Gombe State Government has launched a polio immunization campaign targeting 131,815 under-five children in Gombe Local Government Area. The...

  NGO: Malnutrition Remains Leading Threat to Child Survival in Nigeria A coalition of non-governmental organizations, Civil Society Scaling-Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN), has warned that malnutrition continues to...

Nutrition: Otu Provides N100 Million for C'River Intervention Program According to Governor Bassey Otu of Cross River, his administration has provided a matching fund of N100 million to...

Health: World Bank Group To Ensure 1.5 Billion People Have Quality Healthcare The World Bank Group has unveiled a new initiative that is aimed at ensuring that quality...

Merck: Production Problems Have Led To Reduced Distribution of HPV Vaccines According to Merck, an American multinational pharmaceutical company currently producing the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, there will...

NCDC: Mysterious Illness Kills 8 In Sokoto As Suspected Cases Hit 208 There have been no less than eight deaths and 208 suspected cases caused by a mysterious...

CMD: Nigeria Struggles With Hepatitis B, Imminent Population Surge According to Prof. Jesse Otegbayo, the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of the University College Hospital (UCH) Ibadan, Nigeria’s population...

Polio: SPHCDA To Immunise 2.8 Million Children In Kaduna According to the Kaduna State Primary Health Care Development Agency (SPHCDA), it plans to include 2.8 million children in...