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Drug regimen may shorten, improve tuberculosis treatment

A new tuberculosis (TB) drug regimen designed to improve options for TB therapy eliminated more bacteria from sputum than standard therapy and did so...

How Americans perceive global warming’s health consequences

The George Mason University's Centre for Climate Change Communication has released a new report, Global Warming's Six Americas, October 2014: Perceptions of the Health...

Polio: 3 million under-fives undergo immunisation

Over three million children of between ages zero to five years are being immunised against polio during the Immunisation Plus Days (IPDs) that commenced March...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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UN ‘deeply saddened’ by Maiduguri suicide bombing attack – Fall

Nigeria Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Mohamed Fall, on loss of lives in a suspected suicide attack in Gamboru, Maiduguri,...
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CITES at UNEA-7: Strengthening multilateral action for a resilient planet

Biodiversity loss continues to accelerate, driven by multiple interconnected pressures including unsustainable use, illegal trade, habitat degradation and the...

Recipe for fixing the planet, by UNEP report

When the seventh edition of the Global Environment Outlook (GEO-7) – a sprawling report on the state of the natural world...

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