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Nigeria's Minister of Health Professor Isaac Adewole took his Ministry’s efforts to rid Nigeria of untreated obstetric fistula into his own hands by “scrubbing in” at a recent free surgical repair clinic for fistula patients at an Osun State hospital.
As in 2015 and in 2011 before it, the U.S. Mission supports a process and not a candidate in the upcoming races for the Nigerian presidency, state governorships, and state legislature seats in 2019. Like those previous elections, the U.S. mission is rooting only for a free, fair, transparent, and above all peaceful electoral process.
In meeting the commitment to a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support basic education, the Government of Sokoto state launched the distribution of early grade reading materials worth $270,000 to schools across 10 local government areas in Sokoto state.
At a ceremony held on November 29, the United States handed over to health officials here 3.85 million long lasting insecticide treated mosquito nets as part of its comprehensive effort to control malaria across Nigeria.
In a ceremony on November 28, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) concluded a five-year activity that provided support for 500,000 children orphaned or made vulnerable by the AIDS epidemic, and 125,000 of their caregivers.
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