Health

USAID Launches $9.5m Aid to Fight Malnutrition in Bauchi, Kevin Sokoto

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched its two-year $9.5 million Advancing Nutrition Activity to improve the nutritional…

2 years ago

Shanghai Orders Covid Tests for All 26 Million Residents

Shanghai on Sunday ordered its 26 million residents to undergo two more rounds of tests for COVID-19 as public anger…

2 years ago

Nigeria Scraps Post-Arrival PCR Covid Test for Fully Vaccinated Travellers

Nigeria's federal government has scrapped post-arrival PCR COVID tests for fully vaccinated travellers entering Nigeria. This was contained in a…

2 years ago

Nigeria: NAFDAC Puts Fake Medicine in Circulation at 15 per cent

Nigeria's National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has said contrary to report that 70 per cent of…

2 years ago

China’s Shanghai Launches Two-Phase Lockdown as Covid Surges

China's financial hub of Shanghai launched a two-stage lockdown of its 26 million residents on Monday, closing bridges and tunnels,…

2 years ago

WHO Laments Decline in Tackling TB

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has lamented that funding on fighting tuberculosis (TB) has receded, revealing that in 2020, global…

3 years ago

West Africa Has Highest Rate of Maternal Mortality, Low Girl-Child Education, Says Wife of ECOWAS President

Wife of President of the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS), Mrs Jacqueline Brou has lamented the prevalence of…

3 years ago

UK Easing Covid Testing and Monitoring Despite Case Uptick

After dropping nearly all coronavirus restrictions last month, Britain is now ending some of its most widespread COVID-19 testing and…

3 years ago

Nigeria Reiterates Commitment to Global Environmental Sustainability

Minister of State for Environment, Chief Sharon Ikeazor has reiterated Nigeria’s commitment to Global Environmental sustainability and achievement of the…

3 years ago

NIgeria Plans 600,000 Daily Vaccination – Arise Special Report

The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency says it is working to vaccinate 600,000 eligible people daily up from the present…

3 years ago