At the Abuja Central Medical Store (ACMS), normally a hub supplying drugs to 14 secondary hospitals across the FCT, silence had replaced routine. Trolleys stood idle, and medical consumables untouched. Patients needing drugs, tests, and emergency care became the latest victims of Nigeria’s health sector shutdown. For residents, the nationwide strike by the Joint Health …
The Federal Government has stepped up efforts to improve Nigeria’s primary healthcare system. The goal is to give more citizens access to quality and affordable health care. The Executive Director of the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Muyi Aina, made this known during the agency’s quarterly media briefing in Abuja. He praised Bola …
The Association of Community Pharmacists of Nigeria (ACPN) has called on the federal government, under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to invest in the local production of drugs to tackle HIV/AIDS in Nigeria. The move, ACPN says, is crucial to reduce reliance on foreign donors for HIV prevention and treatment programmes. ACPN National Chairman, Pharmacist Ambrose …
Every December 1, the world pauses to remember the millions whose lives have been touched by HIV/AIDS, the lives lost, the stigma endured, and the millions still waiting for treatment or prevention. In 2025, the message is urgent: progress has come, but the battle is far from over. As of the end of 2024, an …
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has secured a major agreement to reduce the price of the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine to about $3 per dose, a move expected to dramatically improve affordability and access across high-burden countries. According to UNICEF, the new pricing set to take effect within the next year will enable the organisation …
Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof. Mohammed Ali Pate, has outlined the major achievements recorded under the Tinubu Administration’s ongoing health sector reforms. Speaking yesterday at the opening of the 66th Regular Session of the National Council on Health in Calabar, Prof. Pate said this year’s theme, “My Health, My Right: Accelerating Universal …
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) decision to enforce a ban on the production and sale of alcoholic beverages in sachets, PET bottles, and glass bottles of 200ml and below has received the backing of Network for Health Equity and Development (NHED) and Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA). The two non-governmental organisations (NGOs) …
Doctors in Gabon are testing a new single-dose malaria treatment that could help combat growing resistance to existing drugs. Led by Dr. Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma at the Medical Research Centre of Lambaréné, the team combined four widely used anti-malarial compounds, sulfadoxine, pyrimethamine, artesunate, and pyronaridine into a one-time treatment. The regimen cleared malaria parasites in 93% …
Africa is battling its worst cholera outbreak in 25 years, the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Thursday, blaming the surge on weak water systems and conflict across several regions. The agency reported more than 300,000 cholera and suspected cholera cases and over 7,000 deaths, a jump of more than 30% …
The stench hits you first, thick, foul, and unforgettable. Inside the University of Abuja Teaching Hospital mortuary, bodies lie uncovered on rusted stretchers, their forms swollen under the dim, flickering light. A once sterile space now feels like a forgotten dungeon, where the dead wait not for burial, but for mercy. Power failures are frequent, …
