UNAIDS is ecstatic with mid-way results from two studies that show a vaginal ring releasing long-acting antiretroviral medicine to prevent HIV infection in women.
According to reports, the results show that the process is up to 54 percent effective in preventing HIV.
The Jigawa Government Commissioner for Health, Dr Abba Zakari, says meningitis has killed 14 persons as 51 suspected cases were recorded in 10 local government areas of the state. Zakari who disclosed this to Newsmen in Dutse on Wednesday said that 51 suspected cases of Cerebro Spinal Meningitis (CSM) had so far been reported to the ministry since November 2017.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday, revealed that it plans to spend up to $178 million between 2018 and 2019, on solving health related problems in Nigeria.
The WHO Country Representative, Wondimagegnehu Alemu, revealed this at the joint approval of the Biennium WHO Programme Budget of 2018 to 2019, in Abuja, with the Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole in attendance.
According to Mr. Alemu $127 million, representing 66 per cent of the budget, would be channeled towards polio eradication programmes.
Medical experts revealed the discovery of a Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) antibody that can suppress the virus for up to six months without additional treatment.
The study result, which was released at the 25th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston, lend a clue to approaches that try to achieve sustained, drug-free viral remission in people living with HIV.
Being partly supported by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the research may have targeted the viral reservoir, populations of long-lived, latently infected cells that harbour the virus and that lead to resurgent viral reproduction when suppressive therapy was stopped.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is warning that one in 10 people globally, or more than 900 million, are at risk of disabling hearing loss by 2050 unless preventive action is taken now.
On the occasion of World Hearing Day, Saturday, the World Health Organization reports that 466 million people around the world currently suffer from disabling hearing loss. The annual cost to countries in direct health services and lost productivity resulting from this disability is estimated at $750 billion.
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There has been an outpouring of rage in the social media after a neurosurgeon at Kenya’s largest hospital performed brain surgery on the wrong patient.
The Kenyatta National Hospital, which admitted the horrific error has suspended the doctor, as well as two nurses and an anaesthetist, according to a statement on Friday.
Health Minister Sicily Kariuki also suspended the Chief operating officer of the hospital, Lily Koros, over the blunder. Lily Koros had suspended the four medics.
