Health

With barely 13 months to go before the target FP2020 objectives on contraceptives usage, indicators show that Nigeria currently has a 13. 9 percent Modern Contraceptive Prevalence Rate (mCPR) for all women, Adebiyi Adesina, a Senior Economist with Avenir Health, a US based agency on Track 20 has confirmed. The Federal Government in collaboration with…

The government and private sector have been urged to scale up HIV testing programmes by making provision for self-testing, community-based testing services, and multi-disease testing targeted at helping people especially young people to know their HIV status as this will go along way in harnessing demographic dividend and also curb the effects of HIV/AIDS that…

Several studies have demonstrated that if nothing was done urgently, most diseases will become untreatable with conventional antibiotics...

Tope had a disturbed past while growing up. His parents were divorced and his single mother, who struggled to make ends meet, raised him. Tope studied Law at the University of Lagos and graduated in flying colours.

The health benefits of Turmeric are dependent on the composition of Turmeric, which include the photochemical, chemical, vitamin compositions and the essential oils present in Turmeric.

Pharmacists under the aegis of the Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) have blamed upsurge in counterfeit medicines...

Prof. Innocent Ujah is a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) and the immediate past Director-General...

The Gombe state commissioner ministry of health, Dr. Kenedi Ishaya, has urged the beneficiaries of the long lasting insecticidal nets in the state to make judicious use of the mosquito nets for the purpose meant for in order to prevent malaria.

As part of its Cooperate Social Responsibilities (CSR), and to mark the world Human Immune-deficiency Virus/ Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) day...

Dr. Joyce Barber is National President of the Medical Women’s Association of Nigeria (MWAN) a non-governmental umbrella body...

Scientists are divided over the extraordinary claim by Chinese scientist, He Jiankui, to have helped produce the first babies — twin girls — born with edited genomes that protects them against Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

FlourMills of Nigeria Plc (FMN), in collaboration with Society for Family Health (SFH), have stressed the need for Nigerians to fight against HIV/AIDS. They urged Nigerians to know their status, because people need responsible living to combat the disease. The partnership was unveiled in Lagos at the weekend, as employees of both organisations embarked on…