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August 11, 2022 NACA Aims for HIV Free Nigeria with GENERATION NEGATIVE

NACA Aims for HIV Free Nigeria with GENERATION NEGATIVE

Interventions to arrest new HIV infections are gaining momentum as the National Agency for the Control of AIDS – NACA, collaborating with Maximizing Options for Informed Choice for HIV Prevention – MOSAIC, a USAID funded project, anchors a campaign that is youth centered – GENERATION NEGATIVE.

The campaign is targeted at catering to the young population who are contributing to new infections and interestingly a more vulnerable group; Adolescent Girls and Young women who statistics show are more prone to HIV infection.

The initiative aims at creating a movement where every individual including key actors in the HIV space become a hero by consciously working at prevention; cutting back new infections, ahead of the 2030 target of ending the HIV epidemic.

August 10, 2022 The World Breasfeeding and Tuberculosis Testing Week in Review

The World Breasfeeding and Tuberculosis Testing Week in Review

August 1st -7th of every year is usually set aside as the world breastfeeding week to raise awareness on why it is important for mothers and families to embrace breastfeeding in order to obtain the benefits that it offers.

 

The world health organization posits that newborn babies should be breastfed exclusively for the first six months of their lives and with complimentary meals up till 2 years of age.

 

The need for much more awareness on this issue continues to increase as statistics have shown that only 3 in 5 babies are breastfed in the first hour of their lives and nearly 2 out of 3 infants are not exclusively breastfed for the recommended 6 months.

 

The world health organization has set a target to increase breastfeeding by 50% by 2025 but only 44% success has been recorded, hence the need for more sensitization in order to hit and even surpass the target goal.

 

In the same vein, Nigeria observed the Tuberculosis (TB) testing week/awareness campaign as part of efforts to increase tuberculosis case findings with a view to achieving the 2035 target to end TB.

 

Every first week in the month of August is dedicated to driving conversations around Tuberculosis as experts believe that early diagnosis and treatment is the sure way of cutting the chain of transmission of tuberculosis (TB) in the country.

 

According to the National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Programme, Nigeria ranks six among the 30 high burden countries in the world as every undiagnosed or untreated case could infect 15 people within a year.

 

Inspiration FM contributed to these health observations with stories highlighting various issues concerning the breastfeeding awareness and Tuberculosis testing week.

 

 

TUBERCULOSIS AND BREASTFEEDING REPORTS

July 18, 2022 WHO puts Nigeria, others on High Alert as Ghana announces First Marburg Virus Case

WHO puts Nigeria, others on High Alert as Ghana announces First Marburg Virus Case

The World Health Organisation; WHO has reached out to neighbouring high-risk countries including Nigeria to be on the lookout for the Marburg Virus Disease.

In a press statement made available to newsmen, the WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, said, “Health authorities have responded swiftly, getting a head start preparing for a possible outbreak. This is good because without immediate and decisive action, Marburg can easily get out of hand. WHO is on the ground supporting health authorities and now that the outbreak is declared, we are marshalling more resources for the response.”

The UN body said more than 90 contacts, including health workers and community members, have been identified and are being monitored.

Marburg is transmitted to people from fruit bats and spreads among humans through direct contact with the bodily fluids of infected people, surfaces and materials. Illness begins abruptly, with a high fever, severe headache, and malaise.

WHO noted, “Many patients develop severe hemorrhagic signs within seven days. Case fatality rates have varied from 24 percent to 88 percent in past outbreaks depending on virus strain and the quality of case management. Although there are no vaccines or antiviral treatments approved to treat the virus, supportive care – rehydration with oral or intravenous fluids – and treatment of specific symptoms, improve survival.

“A range of potential treatments, including blood products, immune therapies, and drug therapies, as well as candidate vaccines with phase 1 data are being evaluated.”

Ghana had just recently announced its first outbreak of Marburg virus disease, after a World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre laboratory confirmed earlier results.

The Institut Pasteur in Dakar, Senegal received samples from each of the two patients from the southern Ashanti region of Ghana – both deceased and unrelated – who showed symptoms including diarrhea, fever, nausea and vomiting.

The laboratory corroborated the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research results, which suggested their illness was due to the Marburg virus.

One case was a 26-year-old male who checked into a hospital on 26 June 2022 and died on 27 June. The second case was a 51 -year-old male who reported to the hospital on 28 June and died on the same day. Both cases sought treatment at the same hospital within days of each other.

Marburg is a highly infectious viral hemorrhagic fever in the same family as the more well-known Ebola virus disease. It is only the second time the zoonotic disease has been detected in West Africa. Guinea confirmed a single case in an outbreak that was declared over on 16 September 2021, five weeks after the initial case was detected.

Other outbreaks and cases of Marburg in Africa have been reported in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, South Africa and Uganda.

July 18, 2022 NDDC Boosts Fight Against Tuberculosis With Renovation of Center in Khana LGA, Rivers

NDDC Boosts Fight Against Tuberculosis With Renovation of Center in Khana LGA, Rivers

The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC has renovated the Infectious (Tuberculosis) diseases control Hospital located in Taaba community in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State.

The Commission installed solar panels, a new 100kva Perkins generator and provided internet services at the health centre, making it possible to provide modern and efficient health care services.

The gesture by the intervention agency has sparked commendations from residents and Indigenes of the area, who lauded the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC for the timely upgrade of the community’s healthcare facilities.

The royal fathers, led by His Royal Highness, Mene MSK Nule, stated that with the Commission’s intervention, especially the emphasis on the treatment and care for tuberculosis patients, the center is set to do more for the community and improve the health of the people.
He assured that the community will handle the facility with care.

The facility, which comprises a main hospital building, staff quarters for doctors and nurses, gate house and a generator house, is fully equipped and furnished with air conditioners, beddings, office furniture, as well as computers, patients trolleys, wheel chairs, oxygen cylinders, amongst others.

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