A Senior Health Reporter with PREMIUM TIMES, Nike Adebowale-Tambe, on Friday emerged winner of the third edition of the Prevent Epidemics Journalism Award (PEJA).
The annual award is organised by Nigeria Health Watch, a non-profit health communication and advocacy organisation that seeks to advocate better health for Nigerians.
Ms Tambe won the print/online news category with her story titled: “2022 World TB Day: Stigma, poor funding, other factors threaten disease elimination in Nigeria,” and published in March, 2022.
The story focuses on the challenges hindering the elimination of Tuberculosis (TB), a killer disease, from Nigeria.
Although, a vaccine-preventable disease, statistics from the World Health Organisation (WHO) shows that every year, about 245,000 Nigerians die from the disease, and about 590,000 new cases occur.
TB is identified as the number one infectious killer disease in the world and also among the top 10 causes of death worldwide.
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