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The Director, Political Affairs, of Economic Community of West African States -ECOWAS, Dr. Remi Ajibewa has lamented that children in the region still lack access to health services, mainly due to insecurity and other forms of conflict.…

The Moderna Chief Executive Stephane Bancel, on Monday revealed the company's aims to roll out a combined Covid-flu-RSV booster vaccine in late 2023. READ ALSO: ‘British Vogue’ Features African models for its February Cover  The US…

The Gombe State Government says it will expand the production of complementary food, noting that 22,000 malnourished children across the 11 Local Government Areas of the state are expected to benefit. The Commissioner for Science,…

The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency has given a vaccination waiver for individuals aged 16 and 17 to enable them to receive coronavirus jabs. The agency said this in an advisory made available to journalists on Thursday.…

The United Nations said on Thursday that, Poor countries has refused to take 100 million donated COVID-19 vaccine doses in December alone, chiefly due to their short shelf life. WHO has slammed the deadly “moral shame” of high-income…

The Disease Control Kaduna said an outbreak of Lassa fever has claimed two lives in the state. This was disclosed by the Director of Disease Control, Kaduna State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Hamza Ikara, on Wednesday. As…

World Health Organisation has approved two new drugs for the treatment of severe and non-severe COVID-19 infections. According WHO the new drugs are baricitinib and sotrovimab WHO said the recommendation is based on new evidence from…

The Unequal access to COVID-19 vaccines is widening the gap between rich countries and the developing world, threatening the cooperation needed to tackle common challenges such as climate change, the World Economic Forum warned on Tuesday.…

The World Health Organisation -WHO experts warned that repeating booster doses of the original COVID-19 vaccines is not a viable strategy against emerging variants and called for new vaccines that better protect against transmission on…

A 57-year-old American man has become the first to receive a heart from a genetically modified pig on Tuesday. According to the surgeons who performed the surgery, the patient is said to be doing very well. The operation was performed…