WORLD’S first malaria vaccine to partially protect children against malaria has been launched in Malawi, targeting children below two years of age. According to a statement...

THE World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated that more than 2.4 trillion dollars are lost to the diseases afflicting the population across its member...

ABOUT nine patients have tested positive to Yellow Fever in Edo State, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). This is coming just two days...

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

THE WHO has reported that every day around 93 per cent of the world’s children under the age of 15 years (1.8 billion children)...

AS  the World marks Mental Health Day, attention is again drawn to the failure of Nigerian government to enact laws that protect mental health...

A recent report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) shows that life expectancy in Africa increased from 50.9 years to 53.8 years between 2012...

She looked cheerful but shy and carried her lean frame gingerly as if afraid she might fall down any minute. Her cheeks were slightly sunken, making her cheekbones prominent. She clutched a fairly weathered handbag. Her open neck Ankara blouse revealed sharp shoulder blades, a sign that she was not feeding well.