The rising popularity of using specific drugs like ‘Nkpuru Mmiri’ to enhance and prolong sex, often involving group sex, is pushing for a wider offering of harm reduction services, especially among youths and young persons, to prevent new HIV cases in Nigeria, Sade Oguntola reports. A surge in ...

Dr Abiodun Adeoye is a cardiologist at the cardiac unit of the University College Hospital. In this interview by Sade Oguntola, he calls attention to the importance of hypertension and why it is better prevented and treated, as Nigeria joins others to mark World Hypertension Day an occasion ...

Executive Secretary, Oyo State Primary Healthcare Board, Dr Muideen Olatunji, has told mothers to prioritise childhood vaccination for a healthy community and healthy children able to attain their full potential in life. Dr Olatunji, speaking at the commemoration of African Vaccination ...

Advocates for ending TB have encouraged people with persistent coughs to take testing and adhere to treatment afterwards to ensure Nigeria joins other countries to end TB by 2030. The call was made at a World TB Day 2024 Media Roundtable on Shorter TB Regimens organised by the Plan Health ...

While malaria is often assumed to be the main cause of fevers, relying solely on malaria rapid diagnostic tests in children can lead to misdiagnosis and inappropriate treatment for other infections, a don has warned. Professor Adebola Orimadegun, in his 2022/23 inaugural lecture at the ...