The Central Public Health Laboratory (CPHL) in Lagos, Nigeria has achieved full laboratory accreditation status from the World Health Organization ...

Five United Nations agencies are calling for accelerated progress on the Global Action Plan on Child Wasting, as increasing numbers ...

Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari recently signed the country mental health bill into law. Described as groundbreaking, the new law aims, ...

Despite the large number of lives threatened by unsafe practices, abortion remains a highly controversial issue in Nigeria, where it ...

An estimated 7 million children in Africa died before their fifth birthday, according to the latest estimates released by the ...

Health authorities in Uganda have admitted that even though the country's latest Ebola outbreak is over, the source of the ...

The World Health Organization's Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has urged countries to increase their COVID-19 sequencing efforts and share data ...

Uganda has declared the end of an Ebola outbreak caused by Sudan ebolavirus, just four months after the first case ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a statement in The Lancet Public Health stating that there is no safe ...

Since February 2022, Nigeria's federal ministry of health has not posted anything on its official Facebook and Twitter pages. The ...