Lagos tops burden of TB chart in Nigeria – Stakeholders

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L-R: Dr Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director, Global Stop TB Partnership, Geneva; Mrs Florence Ajimobi, wife of a former Governor of Oyo State and the representative of Dr Mrs Aisha Buhari; Dr Mrs Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, TB Champion of Lagos State and wife of Gov. Sanwo-Olu and Prof. Lovett Lawson, Board Chairman, Stop TB Partnership Nigeria, at a Dinner Forum with Corporate Sector on Mobilising Domestic Resources to end TB in Nigeria” in Lagos on July 14, 2019

By Vivian Ihechu

The Lagos State Government, StopTB Partnership Nigeria and other stakeholders on ending tuberculosis say Lagos State presently has the highest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in Nigeria.

They made the assertion at a Dinner Forum with Corporate Sector on Mobilising Domestic Resources to End TB in Nigeria”, in Lagos on Sunday.

Prof. Lovett Lawson, Chairman of the Nigerian Stop TB Partnership, said, “Lagos has the highest burden of TB in Nigeria, while Nigeria has the 6th highest burden of TB in the world and the…



Source: News Agency of Nigeria

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