Chioma Umeha

...   Lauds EPI Landmark Of Over 13 Life-Saving Vaccines In 50 Years Dr   Ijeoma Agbo, Health Specialist, UNICEF  T he United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has urged Nigeria to adopt a multi-pronged and sectoral approach to close the gap between unvaccinated and zero-dose children and improve its immunization program as the global immunisation week draws to a close. UNICEF also lauded Nigeria’s efforts in responding to the need to develop a resilient immunization program and Primary Healthcare (PHC) system as the world marked the 50-year Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI). In an interview with Independent Newspapers, Dr   Ijeoma Agbo, Health Specialist, UNICEF commended Nigeria for ensuring equitable access to health and routine immunization services for children despite that the country still has a high number of unvaccinated and zero-dose children. She also said that the EPI program has recorded significant milestones, noting that the world has over 13 life-saving vac

 •••Says It Meets International, Local Guidelines  Nestlé Nigeria PLC, one of the largest food and beverage companies in Africa has restated that it ensures consistency regarding the nutritional value of its products for infants and young children, The beverage leader also said that it applies the same principles of nutrition, health, and wellness worldwide, meeting with international and local guidelines and regulations. While restating that it maintains the nutritional value of its products for infants and young children, Nestle Nigeria refuted the allegations of adding sugars to infant formulas in Nigeria. Nestle assured that in Nigeria, like everywhere in the world, "We do not add sugars (sucrose and glucose) to infant formulas for children aged 0-12 months. Also, all our growing-up milk (12 – 36 months) in Nigeria has no added sugars." The beverage giant refuted a allegations of double standards in its food production as published recently by Swiss NGO Public Eye.  T