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President Muhammadu Buhari last week reiterated his government’s commitment to financing immunisation programme in Nigeria.

On the international scene, the World Health Organisation released two major global health reports on cholera outbreak and tobacco use.Nigeria will finance its immunisation obligations – Buhariand vaccination obligations.

Mr Buhari, in a statement made available to PREMIUM TIMES by the State House on Tuesday, said the government would also honour its financial commitment to the international vaccine body, the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization .Rotary International to vaccinate 10,000 girls against cervical cancer

The district governor, Rotary International District of 9110, Jide Akeredolu, said cervical cancer is unique cancer in the sense that a proper vaccination with the right vaccines against the virus will prevent the girls from having it in their lifetime, unlike other cancers that do not have vaccines.The federal government has approved the appointment of Abba Sheshe as the new Chief Medical Director of Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital , Kano.

The chief of Field Office, UNICEF Nigeria, Bauchi Field Office, Bhanu Pathak, said in a press conference on the activities of the organisation that the project was to actively prevent HIV transmission from mother to child.He said UNICEF also provides free ante-natal care, postnatal care and hospital deliveries in all the main PHCs in the state.worldwide as a new report shows a steady decline in the number of males using the product.

 

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