Some 23 million Nigerian children have received the seasonal malaria chemoprevention to reduce severe malaria.
President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime says it has put in place mechanisms to monitor and curb the outbreak of monkeypox in Nigeria.
The federal government says it is committed to repositioning the healthcare sector in Nigeria.
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ahead of the 35th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Africa Union Heads of State and Government.
President Muhammadu Buhari and his wife, Aisha, will leave Abuja for Istanbul to attend the third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit on Thursday.
Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire, says about $29 million has been spent procuring 40 million doses of Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccines for Nigerians
“Whether it’s a COVID-19 variant or a new attack, we must strengthen our health security architecture to ensure we are prepared at all times to detect, and respond….”
Nigeria’s health minister Osagie Ehanire says the $200 million loan Buhari’s regime requested from World Bank is a counterpart fund to fight malaria.
“Despite TB being curable, Nigeria continues to lose its citizens to it.”
NCDC says there have been 168,124 recoveries from the infections while active cases stand at 15,200.
