Health Reporters

By Aminu Magashi Garba At a Geneva 5 day summit that kick started on the 19th April 2017, Governments and private donors had pledge US$812 million. The new pledge was in line with the collective efforts to control and eliminate ...

By Asma’u Ahmad The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it will hold the first Global Ministerial Conference on Tuberculosis (TB) as part of efforts to end the epidemic by 2030. WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti said in ...

By Haruna Gimba The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UN Women) has agreed on a roadmap to women’s full and equal participation in the economy as a vital step to achieving sustainable development. Executive Director of UN ...

By Asma’u Ahmad The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that there was the critical need for research and development of new antibiotics to tackle the threat of drug-resistant tuberculosis. The Director-General of WHO, Dr. Margaret Chan, said on Wednesday ...

By Asma’u Ahmad The Vietnam’s capital Hanoi on Wednesday started a pilot project on establishment of digital individual medical records for local residents. According to Vice Chairman of the Municipal People’s Committee Ngo Van Quy, the digital personal health data ...

By Asma’u Ahmad Namibia will host the 22nd Conference of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) Regional Commission for Africa from to February 20 to 24 in the coastal town of Swakopmund. An officer from the country’s Ministry of ...

By Ndidi Chukwu The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in its 2016 report said it has saved over 122 million children from death in developing countries through its global health intervention programs. This 122 million lives saved includes children who ...

By Asma’u Ahmad Hundreds of people in southeastern Chad are at risk of dying from a worsening hepatitis E outbreak which has killed 11 people since September, medical charity organization, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday. Some 885 people ...

By Haruna Gimba The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres has released $100 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), to sustain aid operations in nine neglected emergencies. CERF’s largest allocation of the year will reach more than 6 ...

By Asmau Ahmad A new case of human H7N9 avian flu, has been reported in Zhuzhou City in central China’s Hunan Province, local authorities said. According to the provincial Disease Control and Prevention Centre, the patient, a 35-year-old male, is ...