Category: Health

Malnutrition: Journalists to Explore SDGs Component in Reportage 0

Malnutrition: Journalists to Explore SDGs Component in Reportage

By Alex Uangbaoje, Abuja Nigeria Journalists covering malnutrition and other child killers related issues, has agreed to henceforth, explore key components of Sustainable Development Goals...

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Improved Allocation for Malnutrition: CS-SUNN Trains Journalists on Holding Government Accountable

By Alex Uangbaoje, Abuja As part of measures to get journalists acquitted with their roles in ensuring improved allocation, transparency and accountability in the use...

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South Africa Abolishes Tax on Sanitary Pads

Come April 2019, the 15 percent tax on sanitary pads in South Africa will be scrapped. This was made known by the newly appointed Finance...

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Kano Government, UNICEF Invest Over N700m to Fight Malnutrition …..as Dangote Injects N1b

By Alex Uangbaoje, Kano As part of measures to eradicate malnutrition among children under the age of five years in Kano state, the state government...

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Safeguarding Future of Children: BudgIT Recommends Prioritising Health, Education Funding in Africa

By Alex Uangbaoje, Abuja As part of action to safeguard the future of children in Africa, BudgIT, a Civil Society Organisation (CSO) has advised various...

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Adolescents Pregnancy: Major Issue in Kaduna Communities – SFH …as FHAHI Plead for Immediate Release of 2019 Family Planning Budget

By Alex Uangbaoje, Kaduna Society for Family Health (SFH), has revealed that the issue of adolescent pregnancy is still a major issue facing family planning...

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Nutrition Policy: CS-SUNN Tasks Kaduna Government, Media on Improved Implementation, Funding, Reportage

By Alex Uangbaoje, Kaduna Worried about the increasing rate of malnutrition prevalence in Kaduna State, the Civil Society-Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-sUNN), has urged...

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1.1 Million Nigerians are on HIV/AIDS Treatment – NACA

The Director-General, National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Dr Sani Aliyu, says a total of 1.1 million Nigerians are currently on treatment for AIDS/HIV....

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UNICEF Calls for Total Implementation of National Nutrition Policy

By Alex Uangbaoje, Kano The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has called for total implementation of the national nutrition policy to address malnutrition in Nigeria....

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20% of Maternal Mortality Caused by Iron Deficiency – UNICEF …..move to check it

By Alex Uangbaoje, Katsina The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that about 20% of total deaths of women during pregnancy annually is caused...