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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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Mercury: CSOs demand end to Africa’s use of dental amalgam

Over 30 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), including the Sustainable Research and Action for Environmental Development (SRADev) Nigeria, have signed a declaration calling for Africa...

Michael Simire - October 1, 2014

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World Contraception Day: Experts clamour improved access to contraceptives

In a bid to ensure that every pregnancy is wanted, experts have urged government to increase access to family planning commodities on this year's...

Michael Simire - October 1, 2014

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‘Poorly ventilated dental clinics pose mercury health risk’

Dental clinics and medical schools still making use of amalgam, as well as incinerators/medical waste treatment facilities, have been identified as extremely high risk...

Michael Simire - September 21, 2014

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Scientists seek more understanding of Ebola virus

The current Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has heightened the quest for a deeper understanding of the molecular biology of the virus, which...

Michael Simire - September 17, 2014

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