BACKGROUND Malnutrition is an underlying factor in more than 50% of the major cause of infant mortality-Pneumonia, diarrhoeal disease and measles which account for 70% of infant mortality. Therefore, programs to promote adequate nutrition for age can help reduce mortality from these disease conditions and indispensible to achievement of MDG 4. AIM To describe the feeding practices of infants ...

Immunisation, Vaccines and Emergencies Unit, World Health Organisation, Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State Field Office, Nigeria Department of Microbiology, Federal University, Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State, Nigeria Internship, World Health Organisation, Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State Field Office, Nigeria Immunisation, Vaccines and Emergencies Unit, World Health Organisation, Lafia, Nasarawa State Field Office,...

by M. S. Odimayo, W. I. Olanrewaju, S. A. Omilabu, and Boaz Adegboro Department of Microbiology & Parasitology, College of Health Sciences, Benue State University, Makurdi, Nigeria Olanrewaju Hospital, Ilorin, Nigeria Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria Department of Microbiology & Parasitology, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Nig...

C.O. Esimone , A.A. Attama , U.E. Osonwa , C.D. Nwakile* and F.T.O. Onochie 2 Department of Pharmaceutical Microbiology and Biotechnology , Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria Department of Pharmaceutics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences , University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical ...

Public Health Innovations on the Way to Interruption of Poliovirus Transmission in Nigeria Rui G. Vaz, Pascal Mkanda, Peter Nsubuga, Muhammad Ado, and Andrew Etsano World Health Organization, Nigeria Country Office, and National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria; World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa, Brazzaville, Congo; an...

Every year, two million people become infected with the HIV virus in Africa, disproportionally affecting under 25 year olds and women. To address these challenges, governments and development partners have scaled up HIV behavior change campaigns (BCC) targeting youth. In many African countries, young women are twice as likely to be infected as young men, with transactional sex and gender-based ...