The country’s elimination marks a milestone in Africa’s fight to control and end the disease, the second-leading infectious ...

Sokoto State Commissioner for Health, Dr Faruk Umar Abubakar, has promised that the state was now in a position to eradicate all tropical diseases.He made the promise while speaking at the 2025 World ...

By Benjamin Makafui Attipoe, Sogakope The Director in-charge of Technical Co-ordination at the Ministry of Health (MOH) and ...

In a first for the continent, Niger was certified by the WHO for eliminating onchocerciasis as a public health problem ...

In a small village in Niger’s Tahoua region, an 80-year-old man sits in the shade, his eyes clouded by irreversible blindness ...

Niger has made history as the first African country to eliminate the transmission of river blindness, according to verification by the World Health Organization (WHO).This milestone was achieved ...

The Director-General , Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research (NITR) Joachim Ajakaiye has urged the Federal Government ...

The Oyo state government has reaffirmed its commitment to eradicating Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) with an investment of ₦30 million in disease elimination efforts across the 33 local government ...

The Oyo State Government has reiterated its commitment to eradicating Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) according ...

Niger is the first African country and fifth in the world to eliminate onchocerciasis, also known as 'river blindness', a ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Niger for having met the criteria for onchocerciasis elimination, making it ...

Health experts have raised the alarm that over 6 million people in Benue State are at the high risk of contracting Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs).