NOA promotes voluntary blood donation
“This year’s theme, ‘Give Blood, Give Hope. Together We Save Lives,’ aims to raise awareness, encourage voluntary blood donation, and appreciate donors for their selfless contributions.”
“This year’s theme, ‘Give Blood, Give Hope. Together We Save Lives,’ aims to raise awareness, encourage voluntary blood donation, and appreciate donors for their selfless contributions.”
“When compared to young women, ABYM often start treatment late and have lower adherence, resulting in poorer health outcomes and higher transmission risk.”
The disease has now spread across 18 states and 96 local government areas (LGAs), with five states—Ondo, Bauchi, Edo, Taraba, and Ebonyi—accounting for a staggering 91% of all confirmed infections.
“This award is a validation of the governor’s vision and our collective effort to localise that vision,”
“We have empowered the youths on various skills and they were given start up kits. Women group from various local governments have been empowered in agriculture and supported with farm inputs.”
“That is what we need to do more and the key to stopping outbreaks lies in rapid, high-quality response campaigns and closing immunity gaps”
“We are shutting them down for illegal production without marketing authorisations as investigation continues. The fact that people see sachet water and other products with NAFDAC number does not mean they are fully registered because some people fake the numbers by themselves.”
“Before we started, we measured the antimicrobial resistance level and obtained 4.1% before introducing the drugs and ensured that we were not solving one problem and starting another one.”
”With this facility, we are taking concrete steps to eliminate fake medicines from our supply chain.”
“Antimicrobial resistance threatens our ability to treat infectious diseases and undermines health systems and development”.