Health Reporters

By Ndidi Chukwu The international community via the PMNCH NGO constituency has elected Dr Aminu Magashi Garba, a Nigerian as one of the two next civil society representatives to the Global Financing Facility (GFF) Investors’ Group. The announcement came at end of ...

By Asma’u Ahmad A researcher has proposed a combination of insect repellents and insecticides to combat malaria scourge, after fifteen years of research findings on efforts to fight malaria. Professor of integrative biology at University of California, Michael Boots, who ...

By Haruna Gimba The United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, said the 180 political, financial and institutional commitments made in the course of the high-level review of 1325 must not be simply plans on paper. ...

By Asma’u Ahmad Efforts to beat tuberculosis fall far short, WHO warns. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned health authorities worldwide on the need to move much faster to prevent, detect and treat the epidemic of Tuberculosis (TB). Director of the ...

By Asma’u Ahmad The World Health Organisation (WHO) regional committee for the Western Pacific region has opened its annual meeting to discuss progress on public heath priorities in the region. The Manila-based WHO regional committee said in a statement that aside from dengue, ...

By Asma’u Ahmad The Wife of the President, Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, has urged world leaders to make concerted effort to address the spread of Tuberculosis across the globe. Aisha Buhari made the call in an inaugural speech which she ...

By Asma’u Ahmad The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said it has provided 659 million mosquito nets globally to prevent malaria. This is contained in a statement issued by the organisation and made available to media men ...

By Asmau Ahmad The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, has called for a safer, healthier, more prosperous and resilient world for all people while protecting the planet. The Secretary-general made this call in his speech at the occasion commemorating the ...

By Haruna Gimba The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has called on world leaders to invest in better data, warning in a new analysis that sufficient data is available only for half of the child-related Sustainable Development Goals indicators. The ...

By Haruna Gimba A report released by the UNICEF in New York has indicated that nearly 50 million children have been driven out of their homes by conflicts and violence worldwide. The report said 28 million of them driven from ...