World Hepatitis Day 2016: Know hepatitis – Act now

World Hepatitis Day, 28 July 2016 is an opportunity to step up national and international efforts on hepatitis and urge partners and Member States to support the roll-out of the first Global Health Sector Strategy on viral hepatitis for 2016–2021, which was approved during the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly in May 2016.   The new […]

Nigeria commissions WHO-accredited National Polio laboratory in Maiduguri, Borno State

A WHO-accredited Polio laboratory with the capacity to handle 15,000 stool samples per year within the polio eradication initiative from 10 states in the north of the country has been commissioned at the University of Maiduguri Teaching hospital (UMTH) on 14 July, 2016.   Speaking at the commissioning of the laboratory, the Chief Medical Director of […]

Gambia replaces trivalent OPV (tOPV) with bivalent OPV (bOPV)

As part of global efforts to eradicate polio, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW) with the support of WHO, Unicef and other partners recently concluded countrywide orientation/training on the cessation of tOPV use in routine polio immunization activities. This was done in preparation for the commencement of the global switch of replacing trivalent […]

International AIDS Conference returns to Durban to define path forward to ending AIDS

More than 18,000 global leaders, scientists, advocates, and frontline health workers have gathered in Durban for the 21st International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016), the world’s largest forum devoted to any single health or development issue. The conference returns to Durban after 16 years and will feature 2,500 scientific abstracts and hundreds of events. AIDS 2000 […]