Health Reporters

By Asma’u Ahmad The UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth, Jayathma Wickramanayake, has advocated for a free and quality education for young. A statement issued by Mrs Kori Habib, the Media Advisor, UNFPA Nigeria in Abuja on Tuesday, quoted Wickramanayake as ...

By Asmau Ahmad Japan has joined Canada, Norway, the United Kingdom, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MSD for Mothers as GFF Trust Fund Investors. This was contained in a press statement shared today, 14th December 2017 by the ...

By Asma’u Ahmad The World Health Organisation (WHO), says half of the world’s population is unable to access essential health services and many others are forced into extreme poverty by having to pay for healthcare they cannot afford. Media men ...

By Asmau Ahmad On Friday 17th November 2017, 75 ministers of health announced a landmark agreement to take urgent action to end tuberculosis (TB) by 2030 at the conclusion of a World Health Organization (WHO) conference in Moscow, Russia. “Today marks a ...

By Asmau Ahmad The Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria on the 14th of November 2017 appointed a new Executive Director Peter Sands a former chief executive of Standard Chartered Bank who after a distinguished ...

By Asma’u Ahmad Global health partners and implementers from 13 countries, including Nigeria, with a high burden of Tuberculosis (TB) have launched a programme to find and treat 1.5 million missing cases of TB by the end of 2019. The ...

By Haruna Gimba The business and philanthropy leaders have gathered in a high-level event organized by UN Women in the context of the 72nd session of the United Nations General Assembly, to scale up engagement in innovative initiatives for women’s ...

By Aminu Magashi Garba The Global Financing Facility (GFF) in support of Every Woman Every Child has launched its replenishment yesterday 20th September 2017 on the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, with the goal of raising US$2 billion to expand ...

By Haruna Gimba The Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC), a powerful global coalition to boost equal pay for women at work was launched on Monday in New York. The new initiative has a mandate to support innovative and effective equal pay policies ...

By Haruna Gimba The UN Women said it will launch the Global Innovation Coalition for Change (GICC) on September 14 in New York City. This unique alliance with 22 partners from private sector, non-profit organizations and academic institutions will work over a ...