The World Health Organisation (WHO) has endorsed the new strategy adopted by the United Nations General Assembly resolution on the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases – mainly cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes- which kill nearly 35 million people each year, including almost 9 million before the age of 60.

Fidson Healthcare Plc, a visionary healthcare company in Nigeria, has taken initiative of leading the wellness generation in realization of the emerging age of wellness and preventive medicine. This is being achieved through the entrenchment of a wellness policy in the workplace.

To ensure 100 percent awareness on HIV&AIDS in the communities, the Centre For the Right To Health (CRH), in conjunction with the Society for Family Health (SFH) supported by the United Nations AIDS Control Agency (USAID), are imploring community- based approaches to check the spread.

Rising from a 3-day discourse on “Engaging Government for Accountability in Delivery of MDGs 4 & 5, Female media executives and other civil society organisations have called for urgent action from all stakeholders in advocating, educating and informing workable health policies in Nigeria, as well as providing culturally appropriate, evidence-based skilled care as needed.

Stakeholders at the just concluded 5th National HIV & AIDS conference have called for immediate scaling up of HIV prevention strategies, saying it is the only way the fight against the disease could be won.