LIFE EXPECTANCY CHALLENGE: Why Nigerians are dying too soon – Experts
Poverty, weak health systems, poor nutrition, environmental hazards, chronic stress, limited access to healthcare, widening social inequalities shape Nigerians life expectancy
WHO approves 2 Ebola vaccines …Trials begin Jan 2015
The World Health Organisation says the two most advanced Ebola vaccines — one made by GlaxoSmithKline and the other licensed by Merck and NewLink appear safe and will soon be tested in healthy volunteers in West Africa.
Poor reproductive, sexual health killing Africans enmasse — REPORT
INCONTROVERTIBLE evidence that poor sexual and reproductive health practices and policies are killing Africans enmasse necessitating prompt government action, has been released.
26% Nigerian men engage in sexual experimentation, says study
Despite widespread awareness about HIV/AIDs and other Sexually Transmitted Diseases, commercial sex trade in Nigeria is notorious for its growing market. Results of a study carried out in Lagos recently, revealed that 26% of men who patronize commercial sex workers do so to fulfill….
New meningitis vaccine renews hope for African infants
Making the announcement last week, the Meningitis Vaccine Project, MVP —a partnership between the global health nonprofit PATH and WHO—and Serum Institute of India Ltd, manufacturer of the MenAfriVac vaccine, said the stage has been set for the elimination of menigitis within the continent’s epidemic belt.
Indian hospital separates African twins joined at abdomen and chest
Medical doctors at Apollo Children’s Hospital, Chennai, India, have successfully separated eight-and-a-half months old Thoraco Omphalopagus (the fusing of two bodies at the lower chest and abdomen) twins, Abriana and Adriana
