In the bid to boost healthcare services in Africa, thousands of world health specialists will converge in Johannesburg between 9th and 11th May for the 2012 edition of the African Health

Inadequate sanitation impacts on everybody; from the greatest to the least. But, in spite of all these, a 5-day programme convened by the African Leadership Forum suggests sanitation coverage in

UNITED States (US) government has spent N5 trillion on the prevention of HIV/AIDS in  Nigeria in the last seven years. The US Director of President’s Emergency Programme for AIDS Relief

Nigeria’s top government officials, civil society leaders and leaders of private industry resolved today to join forces to expand vaccine access nationwide, a major step in the fight to reduce

The federal government is to ban public officers from traveling abroad for medical treatment, the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, told journalists, in Abuja, yesterday. He said that the

As the debate on removal of fuel subsidy rages, the Federal government has been urged to channel fuel subsidy savings to healthcare with a view to increasing access by Nigerians to medical

Health minister, Onyebuchi Chukwu has called on all stakeholders to collaborate with the federal government to come up with lasting solutions to ease the plight of elderly citizens of Nigeria,

A medical expert, Dr Philip Njemanze, on Friday in Lagos urged President Goodluck Jonathan not to sign into law the new National Health Bill because it would legitimise trade in human

Medical care for pregnant women - The Plateau State Government is to provide free medical care to pregnant women, children under five years and elderly people from 60 years and above in the state.