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The Kaduna State Government, in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has intensified efforts to enhance access to education and healthcare for children and women in hard-to-reach communities across the state. UNICEF Country Representative in Nigeria, Wafa Abdelatef, stated this during a field monitoring visit on Tuesday in Kaduna, where she assessed various interventions designed to improve learning outcomes and healthcare delivery in designated areas. The visit began at Government…

Mr Abdulkarim Aliyu, the State Immunisation Officer, Gombe State Primary HealthCare Development Agency said that the state had successfully vaccinated no fewer than 481, 734 as of day three of the ongoing integrated vaccination campaign in the state. Aliyu disclosed this on Tuesday in Gombe after monitoring the immunisation in different communities in the state in company of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Nigeria team. He stated that the campaign was targeting 1.7 million children for measles-rubella…

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Government of Germany have renewed calls for urgent global action to address Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), describing them as a “silent pandemic” that continues to claim millions of lives each year. Speaking at the World Health Summit 2025 in Berlin on Monday, WHO Director-General, Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, said NCDs remain the leading cause of death globally, killing 43 million people annually. “Cancers, heart disease, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases account for…

The government of Bangladesh has launched a nationwide typhoid vaccination campaign targeting 50 million children aged between nine months and 15 years. The month-long campaign, which began on Sunday, October 12, was officially inaugurated in Dhaka by Health Adviser Nurjahan Begum. The initiative will provide free injectable typhoid vaccines across the country until November 13. Bangladesh received the vaccine doses through support from the global vaccine alliance, Gavi, as part of efforts to curb the country’s high…