The year 2021 was an eventful and impactful one for us at the PUNCH Media Foundation (PMF). This is due, in part, to the introduction and commissioning of new projects and the modification of others towards driving sustainable social change,…
The PUNCH Media Foundation (PMF) organised a two-day retreat for key players on the PUNCH HealthWise project, its flagship project, to review activities, programmes, and impact of the project over the last two years and to project for 2022. The…
Code for Africa, a civic-technology organisation, in partnership with the PUNCH Media Foundation, organised a data journalism webinar series for select reporters in PUNCH’s newsroom and other newsrooms across Africa, to equip reporters with requisite data skills that will position…
PUNCH HealthWise has bagged the Impact Africa Summit 2021 award for excellence in health promotion journalism. PUNCH HealthWise beat two other contenders, Africa Health – a health magazine based in Uganda and African Health Solution Journalism, based in Kenya to win…
A lecturer and healthcare research scientist in the Department of Microbiology, Adeleke University, Ede, Osun State, Dr. Elijah Kolawole tells YUSUFF MOSHOOD why inadequate evidence from clinical trials on using Ivermectin for COVID-19 treatment makes their safety and efficacy contentious. As a researcher, you…
The World Health Organisation says the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that other sectors are crucial to preparing for health pandemics. It noted that the viral pandemic has confirmed that pandemic preparedness is not a job for only the health sector.…
The Minister of State for Health, Dr. Olorunnimbe Mamora, says the Federal Government was renewing its focus on discouraging the outflow of Nigerian health workers, especially physicians, overseas. Mamora disclosed this at the inauguration of the annex of the Federal…
The novel coronavirus has killed at least 3,723,381 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1000 GMT Sunday. At least 172,873,850 cases of coronavirus have been…
A Physician at the National Hospital, Abuja, Dr Harazumi Bello, has urged Nigerians to adopt a healthy lifestyle and a good diet to avoid diabetes and its complications. Bello, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of…
With the loss of three new lives, the death toll from a disease suspected to be yellow fever has climbed to 20 at Okpeilo-Otukpa in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State. The state Ministry of Health through its Permanent…