Nearly 150m Africans live with mental health conditions — WHO
Agency urges greater funding, community-based care By Chidinma Chukwu, Abuja Nearly 150 million people across Africa are living with mental health, neurological or substance use conditions, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said, calling for greater investment in mental healthcare across the continent. The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Mohamed Janabi, disclosed this in […]
Sanofi Pasteur, APHPN advocate food safety standards
WORRIED by the proliferation of food and water borne diseases such as typhoid, cholera and other diarrhoeal diseases in Nigeria, Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, in partnership with the Association of Public Health Physicians of Nigeria, APHPN, Lagos Chapter, have called for an effective and sustained food safety and hygiene quality assurance system to be in place in the country.
Expert allays fears, as Ebola scare hits Lagos
By Sola Ogundipe Residents of Lagos and environs have been urged to ignore a rumoured re-emergence of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in Lagos. The rumour, which began trending on the social media late on the night of Friday April 10, 2015, threw a wide section of the populace into wild panic even as […]
The health sector we need under Buhari – Oluwole, MDCAN President
The President, Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN), Dr Steven Oluwole, in this interview, explains the expectations of his members from the president – elect, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).
Half of Ebola cases located on Sierra Leone-Guinea border — WHO
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that almost half of all Ebola infections in West Africa have been recorded in two districts located in the border region between Sierra Leone and Guinea. Winnie Romeril, WHO Sierra Leone Spokeswoman, said in Freetown efforts were being made to contain the disease in the two worst affected areas of Kambia , western Sierra Leone and Forecariah, eastern Guinea.
Mother and lover, are you woman enough?
SHE is 34 and breastfeeding an 8-month-old infant. It is her first baby and she is quite happy carrying out her motherly duties. The problem is that she has no sex drive to write home about. Before the birth of the baby, she and her spouse couldn’t have enough of each other. In the first few months after their wedding, they were at it practically every day. Even when she became pregnant, they still managed to have a roll in the hay at least once every other day.
