Browsing: Muhammad Pate

President Bola Tinubu instructed the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Prof Muhammad Pate, to work with the Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, to ensure the release of necessary funds for vaccine procurement. He assured the Vaccine Alliance, GAVI, of Nigeria’s commitment to fulfilling its outstanding […]

Nigeria, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cote D’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, and Malawi are among the African countries conducting high-performance-based Human Papillomavirus screening tests as recommended by the World Health Organisation. Other African countries on the list include Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The Technical Officer of Cancer […]

Prof Muhammad Pate, the Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare, announced that a national survey on Tuberculosis will be done this year to find out the real problem of drug-resistant TB in Nigeria. Pate mentioned that the survey will help plan specific actions to tackle the drug-resistant TB epidemic in the country. Pate […]