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3 min read Despite the unprecedented challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Nigeria’s AIDS management agency, NACA, said about 350,000 Persons Living with HIV (PLWHIV) were identified within the last 18 months. The Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Gambo Aliyu, made this known on Tuesday during a national dialogue on Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV(PMTCT). The dialogue was organised by the National AIDS/STIs Control ...

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) –  The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, has expressed concern over new paediatric HIV infections in children aged 0-4 years. He expressed his worry during a national dialogue on Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in Abuja. African Examiner reports that the dialogue was organised by the National AIDS/STIs Control Programme of the Federal Ministry of Health. He said that in spite of significant achievements in HIV Programme, there were persistin...

USAid cited for deals with blacklisted firm Summary The Health committee of the National Assembly Thursday questioned the award of the contract to the privately owned American firm, Chemonics International. The Ministry of Health says that Kemsa had been marked to distribute the donated medicines across the country on behalf of USAid. Friday April 09 2021 By EDWIN MUTAI Summary The Health committee of the National Assembly Thursday questioned the award of the contract to the privately owned Am...

Broke counties hit by HIV drugs shortage HEALTH & SCIENCE   Kisumu Governor Anyang Nyongo addresses the press on measures taken by counties to respond to Covid-19 in Nairobi, yesterday. [David Njaaga, Standard] The Council of Governors (CoG) has raised alarm over the shortage of anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs in regional hospitals. Five counties with high HIV and Aids prevalence reported an adverse shortage of drugs for newborns and adults. The dire situation of unavailability of ARVs in county ...

Customs’ contribution stressed at the Kyoto Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Congress At the invitation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Dr. Kunio Mikuriya, WCO Secretary General, spoke at the high-level segment of the Fourteenth United Nations (UN) Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. The Congress was held in Kyoto, Japan, from 7 to 9 March 2021. During his intervention, Secretary General Mikuriya underlined the important contribution made by Cus...

REUTERS/Cathrin Mueller German, Belgian and Dutch police seized 23 tons of cocaine in late February, the largest haul of the drug in the EU ever. Those busts are the latest in a quickly escalating series of seizures, and they point to emerging smuggling routes in Latin America. While the seizure of 23 tons of cocaine by German, Belgian and Dutch police — the largest-ever haul of the drug in the European Union — was noteworthy, it serves as merely the latest pro...

Port Control Unit opens on Uzbek-Kazakh border to prevent cross-border movement of illicit goods AKIPRESS.COM - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the World Customs Organization held an official opening ceremony of the Port Control Unit at Yallama customs checkpoint on Uzbek-Kazakh border... To Read the Full Story

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PrePex promises less pain and less time "We believe that the PrePex is the only circumcision method that will allow us to meet the goal of [circumcising] over 1.5 million men in two years," Vincent Mutabazi, lead investigator in the Rwandan PrePex studies. "Several campaigns and numerous training[s] of new PrePex healthcare providers have taken place. Some 5,000 men were circumcised outside of [the] clinical environment in Rwanda since [February 2012]... In the upcoming months, more than 200,00...

February 6, 2021 Pantai Jerudong Specialist Centre World Cancer Day is marked all over the world on every February 4. This year was the first event uniting the global cancer community amid the COVID-19 pandemic. World Cancer Day is led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to support the goals of the World Cancer Declaration penned in 2008. The UICC is the largest and oldest international cancer union comprising over 1,200 organisations in 172 countries. It is dedicated to ta...