Children bear brunt as funding crisis threatens global HIV gains – New report
By Chioma Obinna Children are increasingly bearing the brunt of the global HIV response as funding cuts disrupt prevention, testing and treatment services, with 2.27 million children and adolescents aged 0–19 living with HIV in 2025. The UNAIDS Special Report for AIDS 2026, released Monday at the International AIDS Conference in Rio de Janeiro, showed […]
Akishi seeks 4.1m for jaw surgery
Terpase Akishi, 16, was not dumb neither was he born sad, but his present predicament has make life really difficult for him. While his peers are going to school or play around he stays in-door shedding tears.
Rotary targets 1,500 for cataract surgery
Rotary Club of Lagos Palmgrove Estate is targeting 1,500 less privileged Nigerians for free cataract surgeries even as it has concluded plans to provide laboratory materials for 50 schools in Lagos.
Hospital holds diabetes foot care workshop
As more Nigerians grapple with the complication of diabetes foot, arising from the increasing incidence of diabetes in the country, Rainbow Specialist Medical Centre, in partnership with the World Diabetes Foundation and the Podiatry Institute, USA has announced plans to organise its 4th annual five-day capacity building workshop on diabetes foot care.
Scientists devise better way to measure BP
Currently available automatic blood pressure measurement devices are commonly off by 10 to 15 mmHg. This is mainly due to indirect determination of the blood pressure from the oscillometric air-pressure wave measurements taken by automatic devices.
3.7m people at risk for malaria in Borno State, says WHO
World Health Organisation, WHO has said that about 3.7 million people are at risk for malaria in Borno State if quick humanitarian assistance failed to come.
