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NCDC highlights mpox, cholera, AMR as Nigeria’s healthcare challenges

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has highlighted public health challenges, including Mpox resurgence, cholera outbreak, and the rising threat of...

Michael Simire - August 15, 2024

Water & Sanitation

Cholera: WaterAid donates water purification tablets, ORS to Lagos communities

A non-governmental organisation (NGO), WaterAid Nigeria, has donated dozens of cartons of water purification tablets, sanitation soaps and Oral Rehydration Salts (ORS) to communities...

Michael Simire - July 19, 2024

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Nigeria urged to implement national plan to eliminate cholera

The Global Task Force For Cholera Control (GTFCC) on Friday, February 18, 2022, urged the Nigerian government to implement a National Cholera Plan towards...

Michael Simire - February 19, 2022

Health

Govt to inaugurate national response intervention to battle cholera outbreak

The Federal Government says it will soon inaugurate National Environmental Sanitation Response Intervention to cholera outbreak in Kubwa, Abuja, currently the epi-centre in the...

Michael Simire - August 24, 2021

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Cholera: Nigeria records 37,819 cases, 1,178 deaths from 23 states, FCT

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says the country has recorded 37,819 suspected cases of cholera, 1,178 deaths in 23 states and the...

Michael Simire - August 16, 2021

Water & Sanitation

Open defecation described as major cause of epidemics

The Executive Director, FCT Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Agency, Dr. Mohammed Dan-Hassan, says the practice of open defecation, especially during the rainy season is...

Michael Simire - July 2, 2021

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Images: How Yemen struggles against cholera

Cholera continues to spread in Yemen, causing more than 390,000 suspected cases of the disease and more than 1,800 deaths since April 27, 2017. The...

admin - July 27, 2017

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