September 2024, our Immunization Champions across the 36 states and FCT rolled out outreaches in most of the Primary health Centres in Nigeria as part of the activities of International Pediatric Association and Paediatric Association of Nigeria to promote acceptance and uptake of the HPV vaccine across the country. From the North to the South, […]
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THE STATE OF THE NIGERIAN CHILD AT THE 64TH NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY 1st October 2024 The Paediatric Association of Nigeria (PAN), a body of professionals and allied stakeholders with interest in, and activities around the health, social and psychological well-being of Nigerian children and adolescents, celebrates with our dear nation, Nigeria, on the occasion of
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The Paediatric Association of Nigeria (PAN) received with great dismay the news about the current flooding disaster that has affected many parts of Maiduguri, Borno State especially the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, Maiduguri. It is quite unfortunate that this incident is happening in the midst of severe economic hardship being experienced in the country.
Paediatricians have urged parents and teachers to safeguard children from tobacco use and its harmful effects. The call came after a week-long programme organised by the Nigeria Tobacco-Free School Initiative (NTFSI) in selected secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The NTFSI is seen as a crucial strategy for tobacco control and prevention during
Experts have called on parents and teachers to protect children against the use of tobacco and exposure to its harmful effects. They gave this advice after a one-week programme organised by the Nigeria Tobacco-Free School Initiative (NTFSI) in selected Federal Capital Territory (FCT) secondary schools. The experts say the initiative is a vital strategy for
As part of efforts to increase childhood immunisation uptake in the country, paediatricians under the aegis of the Paediatric Association of Nigeria have sensitised secondary school students in Lagos State on the importance of immunisation using art competition. The paediatricians said the creative art competition to reach every Nigerian with the message of immunisation was
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The Paediatric Association of Nigeria (PAN) is dismayed by the vaccine hesitancy that has attended the roll out of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination in the Phase 2 states. PAN wishes to state that vaccines are generally safe and effective. They have been instrumental in controlling disease and in the eradication of the dreaded
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Star prize winner of the Paediatric Association of Nigeria (PAN) creative art competition, Ugochukwu Anthony of National College Gbagada, being handed his cheque image by Mrs lyabo Kuteyi, Fmr. Director Of Water Corporation Lagos State, representing the wife of Lagos State Governor. President of the Paediatric Association of Nigeria, Prof. Ekanem Ekure has said that
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The North-East Regional Immunization Workshop held at Gombe on the 25th of April 2024 …. The North-East Regional Immunization Workshop held at Gombe on the 25th of April 2024 with 36 participants from 6 states in the region. Distinguished individuals such as the Honourable Comissioner for Health, Dr Habu Dahiru, the Provost College of Medicine
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