As the world commemorates the 2011 World AIDS Day, supportive efforts must be geared towards making HIV treatment and prevention services universally available to the people who need them, wherever they live.
The rivalry between medical professionals which often resurface in Nigeria constitutes potential risks to patients and portrays symptoms of an ailing health sector. For there to be mutual respect for each other, government must ensure a level-playing field for all.
With an estimated 608 deaths per 100,000 deliveries, Nigeria ranks second only to India in the list of nations with the worst child mortality.
The future of African mothers and children is uncertain unless African governments devote the much-needed political will and resources to tackling the HIV/AIDS pandemic in the continent.
Anyone that is familiar with the crisis in Nigerian health sector would see the current series of attacks on the newly passed National Health Bill as yet another unnecessary uproar by perturbed professionals.
It is reasonable to expect that in this month of general elections, all attention should be fixed on the outcomes of the first of the exercises – the National Assembly elections which were conducted last Saturday. Nothing attracts public commentary as much as the results of elections in which politicians are deeply divided on how [...]
Maybe as her own demonstration of love during the Valentine season, the First Lady of Nigeria – Dame Patience Jonathan on Sunday 13th day of February 2011 turned a portion of Aso Rock into a repository for insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) that were subsequently distributed to some categories of Nigerian women. Her love gift is one [...]
What many Nigerians don’t know is that digestion doesn’t end by storage in the stomach; it entails a series of specific enzyme activities. We keep bombarding the body with carbohydrates and overburden the pancreas – the organ that secretes insulin
African leaders, African scientists and individual Africans need to stop fooling themselves. HIV/AIDS in its current status in Africa is a real life/fake imagination dichotomy where what is on paper negates what the truth really is.
Poverty cannot carry the blame alone. The mentality of public and non-governmental officials sitting in air-conditioned offices in Abuja and conjuring interventions for the rural poor is really pitiable
