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Ibrahim urged communities to tackle obstacles standing in the way of providing HIV services to those who required them most. | Pulse Nigeria

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The Federal Government on Thursday berated the organised labour over the strike it

The bill was titled: “Motion on the Urgent Need to conduct a national baseline survey on fake anti-malaria medicines in Nigeria.”

In June 2018, NAFDAC was informed of the circulation of some fake varieties of anti-malaria drugs imported fraudulently from India. Counterfeit/fake anti-malaria drugs are mostly observed to be deliberately made to look like brand name drugs or may have no active ingredients or have less than the required amount of active ingredients or may even contain ingredients that are not what is described on the package label imported/manufactured, distributed/sold and eventually ignorantly used by malari...

To this end, the House called on the Federal Government to subsidise malaria drugs if it cannot make them free at all government-owned health centres for the benefit of Nigerians.

Mr Ogar stated that malaria is causing havoc in the country, hence, urgent intervention from the government is needed.

The House of Representatives has advocated for the subsidisation of malaria drugs in Nigeria, and even making them freely available at all Government Health Centres. | Pulse Nigeria

I am concerned by the havoc malaria is wrecking on our populace and we are going to push and advocate that malaria drugs be subsidised if not made free at all government health centres. It is no rocket science that most Nigerians are affected by malaria and yet, drugs are not readily available, while the ones available are very exorbitant. 

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): Cambodia had recorded 21,568 dengue fever cases in the first nine months of 2023, a significant rise of 184 per cent from 7,597 cases over the same period last year, a health official said on Thursday (Oct 5).

The Civil Society in Malaria Control, Immunization and Nutrition (ACOMIN) has urged the federal government to address the problem of shortage of skilled manpower and infrastructure gap in the health sector in order to reverse the nation's poor health indices.