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Hepatitis B: Common, deadly but receives low attention in Nigeria

KHADEEJAH was in her final year at Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Kwara State in 2015, when she had fever and cough....

REPORT: How meagre support from NHIS jeopardises health of kidney failure patients

Abuja, Nigeria — Halima Galadima wheels herself into the Dialysis Unit of Garki Hospital with the support of her...
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World Mental Health Day: Nigeria’s failure to repeal 60-year-old Lunacy Act hurts patients

AS  the World marks Mental Health Day, attention is again drawn to the failure of Nigerian government to enact...

Oh no! In seven months, 54 mothers in Nasarawa infect their babies with HIV

Fifty-four babies delivered in Nasarawa State between January and September 2017 have tested positive to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus...
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State House Clinic got N9.14bn in 10 years,yet no paracetamol, syringes

Over the years, it has become a norm, or some unwritten law, for members of the first family in...

How 28 govt initiatives in 10 years failed to end preventable newborn deaths

An estimated 7.4 million babies are born in Nigeria every year but 94,000 of them die on the first...
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