Nigeria News » Osun News Nigeria » Osun » Health: Ebola: Osun to expand sensitisation, plans awareness jingles
The Osun State Government has resolved to expand public sensitisation on Ebola Virus Disease as part of measures to prevent the disease from spreading into the state. The decision was among the ...
News Nigeria » Osun » Health: Patterns and determinants of antimalarial drug use and treatment adherence in Osun State, Southwestern Nigeria: a cross-sectional study
Background Malaria remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Nigeria. Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are first-line treatments, but adherence is suboptimal and resistance ...
News Nigeria » Osun » Health: Osun State residents benefit from free medical outreach in commemoration of WHO’s 75th anniversary
Osun - In accordance with the World Health Organization’s (WHO) mandate of improving public health services in Nigeria, over 500 residents of Osogbo community, benefitted from a free medical outreach ...
News Nigeria » Osun » Health: Nigeria’s Ebola case linked to virus found in Kenya’s index case, Pate says
Genomic analysis of Nigeria’s imported Ebola virus disease (EVD) case has shown that the virus appears closely related to the one identified in Kenya’s index case, the Federal Government has said.
News Nigeria » Osun » Health: Nigeria: Investigation - Despite Billions of Naira Spent in the Health Sector, Challenges Remain in Osun's Rural Phcs
The Osun State Government allocated billions of naira to the health sector, awarded contracts for primary healthcare revitalisation and reported progress in improving rural health services. But a ...
News Nigeria » Osun » Health: Osun govt urges health unions to shelve planned strike over UNIOSUNTH PPP
The Osun State Government has urged health sector unions at the UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital, UNIOSUNTH, Osogbo, to shelve any planned industrial action over the proposed Public-Private Partnership ...
News Nigeria » Osun » Health: Nigeria's Osun River: Sacred, Revered and Increasingly Toxic
Yeyerisa Abimbola has dedicated most of her 58 years on Earth to the Osun, a waterway in deeply religious Nigeria named for the river goddess of fertility. As the deity's chief priestess, she leads ...
News Nigeria » Osun » Health: Health Insurance Works in Nigeria — But Only for Those Who Can Afford It
When Nigeria launched its National Health Insurance Scheme in 1999, the promise was bold: universal health coverage for all citizens by 2015. A decade past that deadline, a new systematic review ...