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Adamawa flags off maternal newborn, child health social protection scheme

Monday, November 21, 2016

The Maternal Newborn and Child Health Social Protection Scheme has taken off in Adamawa State.
 
The programme, supported by the European Union and UNICEF, was flagged off on Monday by wife of the state governor, Maryam Bindow.
 
At the ceremony in Malabu village of Fufore Local Government Area, Mrs. Bindow urged mothers, who are the major beneficiaries, and health workers involved in the scheme to give the intervention their full support.
 

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UNICEF laments continued violation of children’s right

Monday, November 21, 2016

UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake, has emphasized that universal Children’s Day is more than a day to celebrate children everywhere, but an annual opportunity to recommit ourselves to protecting the rights of every child.
 
Lake said in a statement that the universal, inalienable rights that the world pledged to protect on this day in 1989, when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, is the “Rights to dignity and security. To be treated fairly and to live free from oppression. To have a fair chance in life.
 

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Nigeria fights myths, fear in polio vaccine drive

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Two years after Nigerian militant group Boko Haram attacked his hometown of Gwoza – killing men and burning down houses – Ali Bello feared the worst when he received a panicked message from his wife.

 

The rickshaw driver – who works in the nearby town of Mubi in northeast Nigeria – raced home to find that their five-year-old son had been rushed to hospital after falling severely ill.

 

“When they told me the boy had polio, I did not believe it,” Bello told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone.

 

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‘Southwest states, Others Tasked To Roll Out PHC Implementation Plans’

Monday, August 22, 2016

Chioma Umeha

 

Lagos-To ensure proper implementation of a functional primary Health care (PHC) per ward, all states have been urged to establish State Primary Health Care Development Board (SPHCDB) and make it fully functional in line with the national guidelines.

 

The call was contained in a communique which was issued at the end of a two-day meeting on Primary Health Care (PHC) implementation roll out for Southwest and Edo states.

 

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