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By Nigeria Health Watch | August 20, 2024

Protecting the Future: Kano’s Global Shapers Educate Schoolgirls on HPV and Its Vaccine

Mahdi Garba [Lead writer] When Radeeyah Nasir is not at her job as a registrar in the obstetrics and gynaecology unit of Muhammad Abdullahi Wase Teaching Hospital, Kano, she is part of a team of volunteers raising awareness about the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), among secondary school students in states across Nigeria’s northwest. “There are […]

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Gavi and UNICEF welcome approval of new oral cholera vaccine

By Nigeria Health Watch | April 18, 2024

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and UNICEF welcome the news that a new oral cholera vaccine (OCV), Euvichol-S, has now received WHO prequalification and can be made available to countries around the world. The prequalification of this new product will help EuBiologics, the manufacturer, produce more volumes of vaccine, faster, and at a lower cost – […]

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1 in 4 health care facilities lacks basic water services – UNICEF, WHO

By Nigeria Health Watch | April 3, 2019

3 APRIL 2019| GENEVA | NEW YORK –  One in four health care facilities around the world lacks basic water services, impacting over 2 billion people, according to a new report by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP). The WHO/UNICEF JMP report, WASH in Health Care […]

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