The UN health agency warned that tobacco’s killer toxins also wreak havoc on the environment. [Photo: ITV.com]and Impact Survey indicates that about 1.9 million Nigerians are currently living with the disease, the National Agency for the Control of AIDS has said.
Recently, the Tunisian health minister, Abderraouf Cherif, resigned over the deaths at the Rabta hospital in Tunis after 11 newborns were initially reported dead. In 2016, a report by the World Health Organisation stated that Nigeria had the second largest HIV epidemic, with over 196,000 adolescents representing 10 per cent of the global burden epidemic.TuberculosisMr Lawson, the Board Chairman of Stop TB partnership Nigeria, said Nigeria has the highest burden of the disease in Africa and the third highest burden in the world after India and Indonesia.
John Okoh, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of RDC, said that from clinical observations and available statistics, more people were coming down with kidney disease. The study found the maternal mortality rate for C-sections in Africa is substantially higher than expected at 5.43 deaths per 1,000 operations compared to just 0.1 per 1,000 operations in Britain.