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Nigeria: Kidney disease now rivals HIV, TB and malaria burden — Expert

Nigeria: Kidney disease now rivals HIV, TB and malaria burden — Expert

Africa Links 24 with Sade Oguntola
Published on 2025-05-01 02:05:00

 

 

 

A kidney specialist, Professor Adanze Asinobi, has called on the federal government to give kidney health first priority since, despite being overlooked, its burden is now on par with that of HIV, TB, and malaria.

Asinobi, in a valedictory lecture entitled “An Odyssey with the Kidney, the Purifying Organ: A Story of Doggedness, Grace and Triumph” at the University of Ibadan, said Nigeria cannot look away anymore given that Nigerian children still die because their families…

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