The long wait by Nigerians to see drug counterfeiters face stricter punishment as drug counterfeiting becomes non-bailable, may soon become reality if a Draft Bill being sponsored by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) gets the nod from the National Assembly, just as the Agency has threatened impose severe sanctions on Fast Food Restaurants utilising expired products food preparation.

In response to the declaration of Child Sexual Abuse as a public health epidemic that needs to be tackled from the grassroots, key members of Oshodi/ Isolo market women were last week engaged in a three-day peer education training workshop organised by Media Concern Initiative For Women and Children (MEDIACON).

In a milestone surgery, doctors at Fortis Malar Hospital successfully performed a heart transplant – a first for a Fortis Hospital in India.

SIX new Directors have been appointed by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) following their success in a recent competitive public service recruitment exercise.

The long wait by Nigerians to see drug counterfeiters face stricter punishment as drug counterfeiting becomes non-bailable, may soon become reality if a Draft Bill being sponsored by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) gets the nod from the National Assembly, just as the Agency has threatened impose severe sanctions on Fast Food Restaurants utilising expired products food preparation.

Towards helping to address the worrisome incidence of unresolved murder cases, missing persons, unidentified bodies and other numerous issues of homicide in Lagos State and Nigeria as a whole, a team of researchers and experts in forensic investigations from the University of South Florida in the United States of America,is collaborating with medical experts at the Lagos State University College of Medicine (LASUCOM), Ikeja.

SHORTLY after the flag-off of the “Maternal and New Born Child Health Week (MNBCHW)” in Borno State, the impact is already noticeable. Already in some local government areas of the State, there is massive response from women and aged 5-6 years.

Even though children all over the world are seen as the leaders of tomorrow, they are yet to be accorded the relevant and necessary attention they deserve to prepare them for this very important task ahead. Millions of them across the world suffer, treated with reckless abandon and impunity, or sold into child slavery.

“We must put the best interests of children at the heart of every political and social decision making as well as at the centre of our day-to-day activities and engagements. We can build a world favourable for children, if each one of us does his part and considers that the welfare of children is our own responsibility.”

AS Nigeria weekend witnessed the unveiling of the first-ever infusions and other Parenteral products manufactured under a carbon copy of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), the Director General of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, (NAFDAC) Dr. Paul Orhii has disclosed that no Nigeria pharmaceutical company has WHO GMP certfication.

TOWARDS changing the profile of Nigeria as the country with the 4th largest burden of tuberculosis in the world, and at the same time checkmate the national menace of HIV & AIDS epidemic, a collaborative venture involving the National Tuberculosis & Leprosy Control Programme, the Institute of Human Virology, Nigeria (IHVN) and the United States-based Centres for Diseases Control (CDC) has established a first rate TB/HIV & AIDS reference laboratory in Zaria, Kaduna State.

Worried about the fact that Nigeria ranks among countries with unenviable maternal and child mortality indices, the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) reiterated its determination to continue in its giant strides to change the tide.

SMILES were put on the faces of 638 underpriviledged school children in Lagos recently when The Daniel Ogechi Akujobi Memorial (DOAM) Foundation held a mentorship and education programme focused on building leadership skills in children of the Zion Primary School, Iyana-Paja in line with the 2010 Children’s Day celebration.

NIGERIA continues to remain in the eye of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) even as the new Strategic Plan 2010-2012 for eradicating wild polio virus faces a potential 50 per cent US $1.3 funding shortfall out of a budget of US $2.6 billion over the next three years.

AIDS activists in Cross Rivers State as well as People Living with HIV, Heads of NGOs and other key players in the AIDS response in Cross Rivers State recently had the opportunity of getting acquainted with latest updates on microbicides clinical trials and research.