Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu has decried the scourge of cancer among women population in the country, saying no woman has to die by cervical cancer when it is preventable. She has then unveiled a new campaign, Partnership to Eliminate Cervical Cancer in Nigeria, PECCIN, in conjunction with the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) elimination…
Yetunde Oke The wife of Oyo State Governor, Tamunominini Makinde, has advocated vaccination for girls between the ages of 9 to 14 against Human Papilloma Virus, HPV, a common sexually transmitted infection, STI. Mrs Makinde made this known at the official launch of ‘Oya Campaign” against cervical cancer through HPV Vaccination, at St. Paul’s Anglican…
Health experts are sounding the alarm over the increasing cases of cervical cancer in Nigeria, following a World Health Organisation (WHO) report revealing that the disease claims 7,968 lives annually in the country.Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among Nigerian women, making up about 16% of all female cancers.At a vaccine awareness and…