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International Rescue Committee Receives $11.3M for Research to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health in Conflict-Affected Countries

Today, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), announced a new collaboration that aims to improve maternal and newborn health in conflict-affected countries through the creation of a multi-country research consortium. ....

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COVID-19: 'How delta variant spreads rapidly in communities'


Right from the outset of the pandemic in 2019, we always knew that there is a possibility of the COVID-19 virus, (which is a SARS-CoV-2 virus), mutating or having different variants. But what we didn’t know was how these variants will behave. From then till now I think we must have had several variants; some dominant in the sense that they become the agents of transmission, and responsible for a big burden of new transmissions, and some just fizzle out. So the Delta variant is arranged in such a way that it easily attaches to the membranes and easily multiplies. It is more infective, and can transmit from one person to the other quickly. ....

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Lagos is Nigeria's Tuberculosis epicentre -- Official

Lagos is Nigeria's Tuberculosis epicentre -- Official
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Make medical oxygen available, affordable


The report said medical oxygen cost as high as N30,000 daily per patient. It added that the majority of patients can ill afford the cost and that it is worse for those who have extended stay in hospital for up two to three weeks. Such patients are in addition made to pay other hospital charges. With the economy of the country only very few persons can afford it. Thousands of those who cannot are, therefore, left to their fate.
Agency report a few months ago also said demand for cylinders in Lagos went from around 70 per day early last year to as high as 500 daily from November. ....

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How we identified 11,000 TB patients in 4 states – Expert


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Tue Jun 29 2021
A tuberculosis expert, Dr. Olugbenga Daniel, has said the burden of TB in the country with attendant missing cases requires the deployment of innovative strategies to identify and place people on treatment.
Speaking during a virtual interview with Daily Trust, he said Nigeria still has over 300,000 TB cases annually that are yet to be diagnosed.
Daniel, who is also the Director Technical Programmes, Institute of Human Virology Nigeria (IHVN) United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
Tuberculosis Local Organisations Network (TB LON 3) project, said Nigeria continues to have a huge number of missing TB cases because of low awareness, and 70 per cent funding gap. ....

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