The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Rivers State chapter, has said that it would launch a School Health Initiative, a programme aimed at creating health and healthy...
The Civil Society Scaling Up Nutrition in Nigeria (CS-SUNN), has urged the National Assembly to enact laws that would promote breastfeeding, to boost nutrition indices among...
Voluntary blood donation by the public to make for sufficient blood at the blood banks remains another sure way of checkmating maternal deaths during pregnancy and...
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), says one out of every five Rivers children are malnourished and has stunted growth. UNICEF Chief Field Officer, Rivers State,...
Drug abuse, a common habit among young people of the times, including women of child-bearing age, has been identified as another cause of early menopause as...
A gynaecologist with a private hospital in Abuja, Dr Charles Agugua, has identified poverty as a major cause of maternal and infant mortality in Nigeria. Agugua...
Not less than 13 local government areas in Rivers State have been affected by yet another type of the neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), the Lymphatic Filinasis,...
A Public health physician, Dr. Idowu Justus, has said that Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) constitute a major cause of infertility and sterility as well as frequent...
The Association of Nigeria Health Journalists (ANHEJ) have appealed to the Federal Government to allocate one per cent of the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the federation...
The Director-General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Dr Sani Aliyu, has said that the Federal Government must take full sponsorship of...