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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has expressed dissatisfaction over rise in the number of Tuberculosis (TB) infections cases

By Abujah Racheal

Taking vaccination closer to underserved communities - States optimize Africa Vaccination Week commemoration Format Vaccination exercise at Kara in Benin City during the Africa Vaccination Week © WHO Nigeria Benin City, 19 May, 2019 - Sitting inside the Church, Pastor Evelyn Omigie of Home for the Needy Foundation (IDP) Uhogua, Benin City, Edo state says, “We are grateful for the recent health intervention rendered by the government and the World Health Organization. The vaccination campaign...

Tuberculosis: Experts advocate improved funding to eradicate disease in Nigeria Nigeria remains one of the 30 countries globally with the highest burden of TB. 2 min read Health experts in Nigeria have urged the federal government to improve its domestic funding for Tuberculosis (TB) in order to reduce its burden in the country. The call was made on Monday in Abuja at an advocacy workshop on Drug-Resistance TB (DR-TB) organised by the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Pr...

Daily Post Nigeria Published The World Health Organization (WHO) says Africa is at risk of major measles outbreaks. The global body noted that fifteen African countries delayed measles immunization drives in 2020 as they dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic. Seven have now completed the campaigns, eight remain outstanding. Between January 2020 and April 2021, an estimated 16.6 million children in Africa missed planned supplemental measles vaccine doses. Eight African countries reported major measle...

COVID-19 worsens TB cases in Nigeria – Director On Tuberculosis Mrs Uko Itohowo, the Director, National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme, says COVID-19 has worsened Tuberculosis (TB) cases in Nigeria as about 60 per cent of patients go unnoticed and untreated. Itohowo said this on Monday in a virtual media seminar with newsmen in Ilorin. She said that according to the 2020 World Health Organisation (WHO) report, Nigeria is ranked first in leading cases of TB in Africa and sixth in...

2 min read Tuberculosis, a pulmonary disease characterised by persistent coughing, killed more Nigerians in 2019 than the COVID-19 pandemic has so far done, health officials have said. The 2020 WHO ‘global tuberculosis report’ indicated that an estimated 150,000 Nigerians died of TB in 2019 alone while the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said 2,061 persons have died of COVID-19 in the country since the index case in February 2020. The different datas suggest that ...

Ondo govt to embark on tuberculosis awareness campaign On Tuberculosis Ondo government says it will soon embark on sensitisation of community and religious leaders on the dangers of tuberculosis. The Coordinator, Ondo State Tuberculosis, Buruli Ulcer & Leprosy Control Programme (OD-STBLCP), Dr Oluwafemi Aina, made the disclosure on Wednesday in Akure during a sensitisation workshop. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the workshop, held virtually, featured medical experts, advocacy g...

Tuberculosis Ondo government says it will soon embark on sensitisation of community and religious leaders on the dangers of tuberculosis. The Coordinator, Ondo State Tuberculosis, Buruli Ulcer & Leprosy Control Programme (OD-STBLCP), Dr Oluwafemi Aina, made the disclosure on Wednesday in Akure during a sensitisation workshop. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the workshop, held virtually, featured medical experts, advocacy groups and journalists. Aina said that the workshop was conv...

The National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme (NTBLCP) has raised the alarm over the significantly higher incidence of tuberculosis over COVID-19 in the nation, killing 157, 680 Nigerians yearly. The NTBLCP and Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilisation (ACSM) Focal Person, Mrs. Jumoke Adebari, disclosed this, yesterday, during a one-day virtual media training for journalists in Ondo and Ekiti states. She noted that tuberculosis is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide, add...