Lagos Launches TB Steering Committee And STOP TB Partnership
From left to right: Prof. Akin Abayomi, Commissioner for Health, Lagos State; Oluremi Hamzat, wife of the Deputy Governor, Lagos State; Claudiana Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, First Lady of Lagos State; Kemi Ogunyemi, Special Adviser on Health to the Governor, Lagos State; and Abimbola Mabogunje, Chairman of the Lagos State Tuberculosis (TB) Steering Committee, after inducting the members of the TB Steering Committee. Lagos State inducts TB Champions/Ambassadors and inaugurates the Lagos State TB Steering Committee and the Lagos STOP TB Partnership in Alausa, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria, on October 8, 2024, to address the scourge of Tuberculosis (TB) at the grassroots. ''In 2022, an estimated 10.6 million people (5.8 million men, 3.5 million women, and 1.3 million children) fall ill with TB worldwide, 2,480,000 people with TB in Africa with one person every 30 seconds, and 479,000 people with TB disease in Nigeria in 2023 and 18,541 Lagosians with TB in 2023,'' Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, First Lady of Lagos, quotes the World Health O
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