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GAVI gives N3bn to improve vaccine access

The funds will be used by Nigeria’s National Primary Health Care Development Agency to procure vital equipment for storing vaccines and to improve dat

NBTS worries over absence of blood policy

Its national coordinator Oluwatoyin Smith also says poor funding, inadequate plan to sustain blood services, lack of cooperative attitude from health

FMCH to gulp N251m in Kaduna

The Commissioner for health, Pharmacist Patrick Maigari who disclosed this in an interview said that the drugs will be available in the next few weeks

Malaria: 100% protection in early vaccine trial

The trial tested the PfSPZ vaccine, developed by Sanaria Inc of Rockville, Maryland, in the US.  According to the World Health Organization (WHO)

Stem cell success in lab suggests possible cure for blindness

Researchers from University College London (UCL) and Moorfields Eye Hospital in the UK, transplanted the photoreceptor cells in to night-blind mice an