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Kaduna teachers given free eye screening

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has provided free eye screening exercise for its members in the Jaba Local Government Area (LGA) of Kaduna...

admin - March 17, 2015

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2,239 pregnant women tested HIV positive in 2014, says report

No fewer than 2,239 women where tested HIV positive in Kaduna State, North-west Nigeria in 2014. This was contained in a report released on the...

admin - March 5, 2015

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TB drug candidate advanced into clinical testing

TBA-354 is the first potential tuberculosis drug to advance to Phase 1 trial in six years The Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance) has...

Michael Simire - February 22, 2015

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Human health benefits from protecting biodiversity, says report

A report on biodiversity and health launched on Friday, February 13, 2015 at the 14th World Congress on Public Health, in Kolkata, India, shows...

Michael Simire - February 15, 2015

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Kaduna offers free health insurance care

Kaduna State Commissioner of Finance, Alhaji Samaila Aliyu, has facilitated the enrolment of 2,000 people into the Community-Based Social Health Insurance Scheme in Makarfi Local...

Michael Simire - February 8, 2015

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Rotary releases $8.1 million to end polio in Nigeria

Nigeria marks progress, having gone six months without a case of polio As Nigeria marks six months without a new case of polio, Rotary has...

Michael Simire - January 21, 2015

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Worry over mother-to-child HIV transmission

Against the backdrop of the World AIDS Day 2014, Development Communications (DevComs) Network and its partners on the NOTAGAIN Campaign urge the Nigerian government to...

Michael Simire - December 1, 2014

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Reports link US health challenges to GM crop, mobile tech, others

A new study has exposed the risks of genetic contamination from GM crop pollen. Results from 10 years of monitoring finds that the EU...

Michael Simire - December 1, 2014

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