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  2. Nigerian Institute of Medical Research - Wikipedia

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    The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) in Yaba, Lagos state, Nigeria is a medical research institute established by the Federal Government of Nigeria through the research institute establishment act of 1977, to promote national health and developments. Until the establishment of National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and ...

  3. Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare - Wikipedia

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    The department sponsors the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development [9] and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, and acts as regulator through the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria, [10] the Institute of Chartered Chemists of Nigeria [11] and the Institute of Public Analyst of Nigeria. [12] [6]

  4. Nigerian National Health Research Ethics Committee

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    The NHREC is responsible for setting norms and standards for the conduct of human and animal research. For this purpose, it drafted the National Code for Health Research Ethics. [1] It is also tasked with the registration and auditing of Nigerian health research ethics committees. As of 12 August 2014, the NHREC chair is Clement Adebamowo.

  5. National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development

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    The National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development (NIPRD) is a Nigerian institution charged with developing drugs, biological products, and pharmaceutical raw materials, conducting quality-assurance tests, research for locally manufactured medicines and constituting guidelines for their production.

  6. Medical experimentation in Africa - Wikipedia

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    AZT trials conducted on HIV-positive African subjects by U.S. physicians and the University of Zimbabwe were performed without proper informed consent. [4] The United States began testing AZT treatments in Africa in 1994, through projects funded by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

  7. Health in Nigeria - Wikipedia

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    Nigeria has some of the worst air quality in the world (ranked 4th globally), with four major cities—Onitsha, Aba, Kaduna, and Umuahia—ranking among the most polluted cities due to particulate matter (PM10). A recent WHO report found Nigeria's annual mean PM2.5 concentration at 72 μg/m 3, well above the recommended limit of 10 μg/m 3. [41]

  8. Lagos University Teaching Hospital - Wikipedia

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    LUTH was established to raise the experience and training of medical staff in Nigeria to raise the standard of the medical industry in general. The goal to train 100 doctors annually in medical schools in Nigeria from 1975 was established. It started in 1961 with 330 beds, and today that number has risen to 761. [17] University of Lagos

  9. Federal Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology

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    Ensuring the impact of R&D results in the Nigerian economy through the promotion of indigenous research capacity to facilitate technology transfer. The Computers for All Nigerians Initiative (CANI) program is focused on enhancing Nigeria's economic and social foundation by supplying access to personal computers (PCs) and internet to its citizens.