🏅 Celebrating global health heroes using #HealthData for healthier communities. This year, we honor Prof Ibrahim Abubakar, whose work for The Lancet Nigeria Commission led to a law mandating health insurance & aid 83M underserved 🇳🇬 Check out the 2023 Roux Prize winner below ⬇️

Congratulations, Ibrahim Abubakar on this well deserved honour. Thank you for all you do in global public health. Privileged to be a beneficiary of your contribution to human capital development in public health. UCL Global Health UCL Population Health Sciences NCDC

More frequently we are seeing children with the adverse effects of skin lightening (bleaching). It is quite saddening! 😩 Toning creams for children are now advertised all over the internet! This needs to stop please! Stop bleaching children's skin! Please watch and share. 🙏🏾

Congratulations Tiwa! The Lord goes ahead of you.

Now published in BMJ Global Health gh.bmj.com/content/8/11/e… In endemic setting: mpox is independently associated with HIV infection risk; sexual contact is an important factor NCDC NACA Nigeria UCL Global Health @UCLLibraries Ibrahim Abubakar Ifedayo Adetifa Chikwe Ihekweazu Dr. Gambo Aliyu

Hi everyone. I want to share what my friend is going thru. He was on a work trip when his whole family was kidnapped from their house in KD on Sunday. They're asking for 300million naira by the end of today💔. He's a government doctor. 🤷🏾‍♀️He's confused and scared. #savethegimbas

Ok here goes MSF Nigeria Jeff Crisp Bola Ahmed Tinubu Senator Kashim Shettima Department of State Services (DSS) Governor of Kaduna please please help the kidnappers have threatened to start killing the family members. 💔

All free to the glory of God. Thank you so much everyone Nigerian Doctor 🪬Baroness of Abeokuta-Queen of Ijebu Remo 👸🏾 Yummy Mummy (EVENT PLANNER IN LAGOS) Olive.Emodi Sola John, Ph.D I don't know you but heaven does. You won't miss your rewards. Nigeria won't happen to you. I love you💜 #savethegimbas #gimbasarefree

Press Release: Ministry of Health Confirms Mpox Outbreak at Taita-Taveta Border Point

Today, the Emergency Committee on #mpox met and advised me that in its view, the situation constitutes a public health emergency of international concern. I have accepted that advice. World Health Organization (WHO) is on the ground, working with the affected countries, and others at risk, through our

Read about the emerged MPXV clade Ib following five decades of uninterrupted MPXV transmission in these original articles: - virological.org/t/novel-clade-… - virological.org/t/mpox-clade-i… - nature.com/articles/s4159…

Children continue to be disproportionately affected by mpox especially in Central Africa. They also have higher risk of death from mpox. As at 18 August, Burundi MOH reported 54% of confirmed mpox cases in children 0-10years. cousp-minisante.gov.bi/uploads/pub_at… Outbreak response

Thrilled to welcome Dr. Ifedayo Morayo Adetifa Ifedayo Adetifa as FIND's new CEO & Chief Transformation Officer. As the first African CEO in Geneva GHC, his leadership marks a pivotal step toward equitable access to diagnostics & health for all.💪🏾finddx.org/publications-a…

While the patient showed no signs or symptoms of Mpox at the time of crossing, he later sought medical attention at a Zambian clinic on October 2, 2024. ⤵️Link: medicopress.media/tanzanian-man-…

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ARE YOU A COMMUNITY HEALTH EXTENSION WORKER? The refreshed clinical IDSR online course is here. Register and complete the course @ rb.gy/anpegx to earn CPD credits. Implemented by AFENET Nigeria with support from Resolve to Save Lives in collaboration with NCDC and NPHCDA

Over the next 20 years, the Gates Foundation will commit around $200 billion to advancing health and prosperity. The world is at a crossroads. The challenges ahead are the most daunting we’ve seen in our lifetime. But so are the opportunities. Read more: gates.ly/44pRnqt