By Joke Kujenya MILLIONS OF preventable child deaths continue despite decades of progress, with new estimates showing 4.9 million children died before their fifth birthday in 2024, including 2.3 million newborns. JKNewsMedia.com reports that the figures, released in a new report titled Levels and Trends in Child Mortality, show most of these ...
By JKNewsMedia NIGERIA, THE country with the highest number of malaria deaths globally, has begun administering a new malaria vaccine for the first time. The R21/Matrix-M vaccine, approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO), is set to protect children aged five to 15 months. According to reports, Malaria claims the lives of a large proport...
