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Early success with Nigeria's implementation of the new and shorter six-month tuberculosis treatment regimen in four states could pave the way for its rollout nationwide, says an expert.

Nigeria aims for nationwide rollout of a shorter TB treatment regimen after an initial success in four states.

Nigeria recorded a 50 per cent increase in annual tuberculosis case notification in 2021, with numbers increasing from 138,591 cases in 2020 to 207,785. The Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire, made the disclosure in Abuja while launching the compendium of best practices for tuberculosis control in Nigeria. It was organized by the National Tuberculosis […]

The Federal Government, yesterday, said the significant progress achieved in the last three years in the fight against tuberculosis (TB), Nigeria still records 200,000 new infections yearly...

Current reports that Nigeria has the highest burden of Tuberculosis (TB) in Africa and is the sixth worst-hit country in the world are worrisome and unacceptable.

TB is the number one infectious killer disease in the world and also among the top 10 causes of death worldwide.

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has said Nigeria has so far recorded 120 deaths from Lassa fever since the beginning of 2022.

Nigeria ranks first in Africa and sixth amongst 30 countries globally with the highest burden of the disease.

In 2014, when Umar Abdulbaki got his diagnosis of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR), a form of tuberculosis caused by bacteria...

There are fresh concerns over the high burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the country as the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme (NTBLCP) has declared that Nigeria