•Ebola outbreak The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has disclosed that 28 contacts linked to the country’s first imported case of Bundibugyo Ebola Virus Disease remain under surveillance, even as it warned of five other infectious disease threats. The agency said no additional Ebola case had been confirmed 21 days afte...
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) has rejected proposed legislation seeking a six-month jail term or ₦300,000 fine for healthcare professionals over delays in emergency medical treatment. This is contained in a statement issued by the NARD President, Dr Ogar Idoko, in Calabar today. Idoko described the proposed amendment to t...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has passed for second reading a bill seeking to make it compulsory for public and private hospitals across Nigeria to provide emergency medical treatment, prescribing up to six months’ imprisonment for facilities and individuals who violate its provisions. The proposed legislation also prescribes a fine of up to ₦30...
•Maternal mortality Nigeria’s maternal mortality burden has raised concern once again, with the United Nations stating that it accounts for at least 25 per cent of global maternal deaths. Disclosing this yesterday at the second annual National Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) Network Conference in Abuja, the Women Country Repre...
•HIV testing A population-based HIV survey in Lagos State has found that 41.7 per cent of people living with the virus do not know their status, while only 48.3 per cent have achieved viral suppression. The findings emerged from the Nigeria State-Level Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Impact Survey, conducted between November 2025 and February 202...
•Ebola outbreak US-bound air passengers must sign a statement that they have not travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of a deadly Ebola outbreak, under new rules coming into force today, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Africa’s latest Ebola outbreak has killed more than 5,300 people, the vas...
•A vial of Lenacapavir held by a nurse The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved a low-cost version of a twice-yearly HIV prevention shot, bringing the breakthrough drug closer to market in low-income countries. The tentative approval was announced by the Indian maker of the generic version of lenacapavir, Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories...
From wards forced to share blood pressure monitors to shortages of life-saving equipment, essential drugs, water and electricity, conditions at the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital, Aro, Abeokuta, Ogun State, are raising serious concerns about patient care and the hospital’s ability to deliver quality tertiary healthcare. Health workers say...
•Ebola response team members Two suspected cases of Ebola disease have been identified in the North-East region of the country. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) disclosed this in a post via its official X handle today, adding that both individuals had been isolated. It also said contact identification and listing ar...
The Joint Health Sector Unions, JOHESU, has begun mobilising health workers nationwide for possible industrial action over the federal government’s failure to implement the adjustment of the Consolidated Health Salary Structure, CONHESS, a demand that has remained unresolved for about 13 years. The union, which warned that it would resist any ...
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