THE need to put the Community at the centre of national development has been identified as one of the most effective ways of promoting sustainable development and quality health, Minister of Health Prof Babatunde Oshotimehin has disclosed.

TOWARDS mitigating the burden of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in Nigeria, the Federal government in collaboration with the Global TB Partnership and USAID, is conducting a prevalence survey of persons with TB that is resistant to treatment with first-line anti-TB drugs in the country.

AN estimated seven million safe injection commodities worth over N104 million was procured and distributed in
Nigeria over the last five years and 10,000 health workers trained in injection safety under the Making Medical Injections Safer (MMIS) project funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

I have been taking laxatives every day for years with out any problems, usually containing senna, but recently, I was told by a doctor that they can be harmful and I must stop. Without them, I will be constipated. What can I do?

Managing Director, Clearline HMO, Dr. Olusegun Ogundimu has called on Federal government to focus on community based health insurance scheme to engender growth in the nation’s health sector. This based on the need that community based health insurance is low in Nigeria and there should be concerted efforts by all the stakeholders to address the situation.

Deans of Faculties of Medicine and Nursing Schools have called for the strengthening of the front line health
facilities in the country in adopting the use of the CDI strategy for multiple health interventions.

Nigerians from all walks of life have been urged to enlist as voluntary blood donors in support of the drive for blood safety and sufficiency in he country. Minister of Health, Prof. Babatunde Osotimehin who made the plea in Abuja Last week said the move would avert the higher risk of transmission of infections from blood and blood products obtained from paid donors.

Concerned Nigerians at a 2 -day Consultative meeting of Media Concern Initiative for Women and Children (MEDIACON) in Lagos have raised alarm over the rising increase in child sexual abuse in the country, lamenting that most of the offenders go unpunished due to inadequate time frame for prosecution.

If recent moves by donor agencies to reduce its funding for HIV and AIDS treatment for People Living with HIV (PLHIV) in the country are something to go by, Nigeria may stand the chance of losing not less than 250,000 PLHIVs on anti retro viral treatment in the next few years.

By Albert Akpor WORRIED by the degree of ignorance amongst women, especially officers wives, of the deadly nature of breast and cervical cancer, the Nigerian Navy Officers Wives (NOWA) has commenced a vigorous campaign against these terminal diseases. Already, wives of serving officers have begun screening with a view to detecting the presence of these […]

TOWARDS mitigating the rising incidence of cervical cancer in the country, the National Cervical Cancer Prevention Programme (NCCPP) is advocating for incorporation and use of the new Digene HPV test introduced by Qiagen N.V., a Netherlands holding company and leading global provider of sample and assay technologies, into the national cervical cancer screening programme in Nigeria.

IT was a day of festive fun on Saturday June 6, 2009 at the Murhi Okunlola Park, Victoria Island, Lagos, when the Bridge Clinic, a leading fertility clinic in Lagos, organised a children’s party to herald its success 10th year of successful assisted reproductive interventions in the form of IVF.

It is indisputable that women in the country are dying before, during or after childbirth. The lamentation of unnecessary loss of lives has been on for so long it is beginning to sound like a broken record.

WHEN the 62nd World Health Assembly opened at the Palais de Nations in Geneva Switzerland on May 18, 2009, one of the major health concerns of international interest, besides the (then) looming H1N1 influenza (swine flu) pandemic, was the race towards global target for eradication of poliomyelitis.

Staff of MTN Nigeria last week embarked on series of community-based activities under the company’s annual staff volunteerism programme, tagged “21 Days of Y’ello Care”. The exercise, which is the 3rd edition is expected to take place in all its 21 operations in Africa, Asia and the Middle East simultaneously.