The commissioner disclosed this at an event to mark the ‘2023 World Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) Day’ on Saturday in Lafia.
WHO’s Global Breast Cancer Initiative provides a roadmap to attain the targets to save 2.5 million lives from breast cancer by 2040.
The government said it had put machinery in place to deal with the outbreak of heat-related diseases such as meningitis, cholera, measles, diphtheria and Lassa fever among others.
UN agencies have welcomed a pledge by 12 African countries to end AIDS in children by 2030, announced Wednesday at a meeting in Dar Es Salaam.
UNODC says trafficked medical products kill almost half a million sub-Saharan Africans, including Nigerians, every year.
A new study by The Lancet shows that planting more trees could reduce summer heat wave-related deaths in urban areas by a third.
Mr Mohammed explained that the suspects produced and sold the products to unsuspecting schoolchildren in Suleja.
Ms Cole-Adeife stressed that poor aftercare of the tattooed eyebrows often results in infections.
The UN chief said the pandemic continues to wreak havoc on developed and developing countries.
“There is little doubt that this virus will remain a permanently established pathogen in humans and animals for the foreseeable future.”
