Experts urge government to prioritise investment in pharmaceutical sector
“We need government’s will to boost local production of drugs; 80 percent of most drugs are organic compounds that are from petrochemicals”
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FOM trains 4,000 optometrists, equips 1,000 students
The Family of Optometric Mentors (FOM) has trained no fewer than 4,000 optometrists over the…
Homegrown solutions will help improve nation’s health indices – NIMR Foundation
“Some of our healthcare workers have left the country in search of greener pastures and the recent events where the U.S. withdrew a lot of its funding on health globally.”
Obasanjo advocates traditional medicine, health fund for Africa
“We had Ebola; we had the HIV-AIDS pandemic; we had COVID-19, but we rode out all of these. The way we handled HIV-AIDS in particular should give us hope and guide us in navigating today’s fractured global health landscape”
AHF revitalises Boys2Men programme to address HIV gaps among adolescent boys, young men
“When compared to young women, ABYM often start treatment late and have lower adherence, resulting in poorer health outcomes and higher transmission risk.”
NAFDAC seals herbal medicine facility, water factories, bakery in Kaduna
“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.”
Infant Mortality: Over 4m children benefit from SARMAN Project–NIMR
“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.”
NCDC inaugurates antimicrobial resistance action plan
“Antimicrobial resistance threatens our ability to treat infectious diseases and undermines health systems and development”.
FUTH to lead Nigeria’s lassa fever vaccine hub
The Federal University Teaching Hospital (FUTH), Lafia, is set to lead the establishment of Nigeria’s…
Nigeria must strengthen vaccine research to tackle future pandemics – Expert
A leading vaccine expert, Dr Simon Agwale, has called for urgent investment in vaccine research…