Psychiatrists seek home-grown research to tackle Africa’s mental health crisis
… Say Nigeria’s Mental Health Act needs action, not just legislationBy Chioma Obinna Nigeria and other African countries must invest in home-grown mental health research and translate policies into action to improve care for millions of people facing mental health challenges, psychiatrists have said. The experts warned that Africa’s low contribution to global mental health […]
3 Americans win 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine
THE Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2017 has been jointly awarded by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institute, to American scientists – Jeffrey Hall of the University of Maine, Michael Rosbash of Brandeis University in Massachusetts and Michael Young of Rockefeller University in New York.
Indigenous funding, key to effective health, economic development
The Civil Society Platform on Health (CSPH) has called on the Federal Government to move healthcare to a first line charge and concentrate on indigenous funding as vaccine-preventable disease continue to claim many lives.
HIV: FG providing ARV treatment for additional 50,000 persons annually
The Federal government has committed to provide antiretroviral drugs to additional 50,000 Nigerians living with HIV each year.
LSACA, NIMR screen NURTW members for HIV
The Lagos State AIDS Control Agency (LSACA) in collaboration with the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) has commenced HIV prevalence study among the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Lagos State.
UNICEF worries over poor development of Nigerian children
A global UNICEF report, launched in Abuja yesterday, shows that Nigeria is putting its children at risk of under-development, both physically and mentally, because critical national policies are not providing an adequate foundation for their growth.
