Looters are continuing to target state warehouses stocked with Covid-19 relief supplies across Nigeria. The authorities have denied allegations that they are hoarding...
August 29th, 2019Weakly regulated painkillers are causing untold damage in West Africa, but stricter controls could have dire consequences for patients with chronic pain. Laura...
A Wellcome Trust study reports that many of the Salmonella Typhi bacteria isolated from children in Nigeria, are resistant to multiple antibiotics.
Typhoid fever is a...Africa
In a serious setback to the drive to eradicate polio from the world, two cases of paralysis caused by the virus have been detected in northeast Nigeria, the World Health...
July 6th, 2016A Port Elizabeth state doctor who employed unqualified foreign medical students as 'clones' to stand in for him in a network of bogus practices he had set up, has died...
Of the over 20m children worldwide not vaccinated against measles, tetanus, rubella or polio.
half come from 10 countries, five of which are in Africa, including South...
February 10th, 2016Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) conducted two randomised controlled trials in resource-limited settings to determine if the vicious cycle between childhood illness and...
Nigeria has marked its first year without a single case of polio on Friday last week, reaching a milestone many experts had thought would elude it as internal conflict...News Update
Nigeria is approaching the one-year anniversary of no cases of the polio virus, following which it will be taken off the list of polio-endemic countries.Infectious Diseases
