Stakeholders are mapping out strategies to improve fistula care to enable Nigeria to meet the 2030 global target to end the syndrome.
Recently, there has been an increase in incidents of violence by patients and family members against medical staff.
Teenage pregnancy among girls aged 15 to 19 in the Philippines declined to 5.4 per cent in 2022 from 8.6 per cent in 2017.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has warned that the country is on the “edge of losing its social function’’ owing to its plunging birthrate.
The deaths were between December 2022 and early January 2023. They were recorded from Lagos, Kano, Yobe and Osun States.
The government noted that 100 suspected cases have been recorded out of which three have died.
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Patients on admission have been discharged to seek healthcare services elsewhere.
“Symptoms of diphtheria include fever, runny nose, sore throat, cough, red eyes (conjunctivitis), and neck swelling,” the agency said.
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) said it would invest up to $50 million over 10 years to help Senegal’s Institut Pasteur manufacture vaccines.
The Paediatric Association of Nigeria (PAN) dismissed the belief that Nigeria’s best medical brains were leaving for greener pastures abroad.
