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COVID-19: Setback for child immunisation as risk of vaccine-preventable diseases increases On Kindly Share This Story: COVID-19 has disrupted health services across the world but one major routine health service that had suffered a setback and disruption in Nigeria remains childhood immunisation. Findings show that many children under the age of 5 are not being immunised as and at when due. Sadly, without sustained routine immunisation, many children risk vaccine-preventable diseases that may lead to uncertain future and dire health prospects. Chioma Obinna writes The World Health Organisation, WHO, Regional Director for Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, recently identified routine immunisation as playing a vital role in improving child survival, and contributing to halving the death rate of children below 5 years in sub-Saharan Africa in the past 20 years. ....
Vanguard News Community Pharmacists seek equity in health sector On By Chioma Obinna Pharmacists under the auspices of the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria, ACPN, have called for equity in appointments in the health sector, blaming the poor health system on what they described as ‘greed and avarice. The pharmacists alleged that greed on the part of the professional group in the sector has continued to encourage the inequitable spread of privileges and resources of players in the sector to the detriment of consumers of health. In a press statement made available to Good Health Weekly and tagged: “We Must Save the Health System in Our Country Now” and jointly signed by the National Chairman, Dr. Samuel Adekola, and the National Secretary, Pharm. Ambrose Ezeh noted that consumers of health had been short-changed by the Government and providers. ....
8.2 million Nigerians screened for HIV in 2020 Dr Aliyu, D-G NACA On By Sola Ogundipe Despite the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, a total of 8.2 million persons were screened for HIV in Nigeria out of which 350,000 were confirmed to be living with HIV and were put on treatment. Previously, just over one million persons are screened annually for HIV in the country out of which between 50,000 and 60,000 persons that test positive are put on treatment. In the views of the Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Dr Gambo Aliyu, this development represents the greatest yield ever by Nigeria or any country in identifying people living with HIV and putting them on treatment. ....
Translate Home » News » COVID-19: Only sequencing can determine if variants of concern are circulating in communities Ihekweazu, NCDC D-G COVID-19: Only sequencing can determine if variants of concern are circulating in communities Ihekweazu, NCDC D-G On By Chioma Obinna As controversies continue to trail the different types of COVID-19 variants of concern globally, the Federal government has said that it is only through sequencing can Nigeria establish if any of these variants are circulating within the local communities. Disclosing this through the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, government declared that the real impact of the variants on vaccines, therapeutics, diagnostics, mortality and symptoms are yet unknown. ....