IN what has been largely described as an ambitious initiative, Nigeria is embarking on a malaria elimination drive through a comprehensive Long Lasting Insecticide Nets, LLINs, replacement programme.

In an attempt to check the menace of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, and its potential effects on maternal and child health issues in Nigeria and environs, Ebola Alert, an organization that uses social media and digital technology to combat Ebola is partnering the Wellbeing Foundation, an organization focused on improving Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, MNCH, issues have implemented a web-based Ebola and Maternal & Child Health initiative conversation known as #EbolaMNCHat.

On this year’s World Oral Health Day, foremost Smile makeover initiative, Project Smile continued promotion of oral health issues and the importance of oral hygiene through its “Project Smile 3.0” with a parallel theme as the World Oral Health Day 2015- ‘Smile for life!’campaign through the newly introduced ‘Adopt-a-Smile’ initiative.

TWO years ago I wrote about my choice to have a preventive double mastectomy. A simple blood test had revealed that I carried a mutation in the BRCA1 gene. It gave me an estimated 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer. I lost my mother, grandmother and aunt to cancer. I wanted other women at risk to know about the options. I promised to follow up with any information that could be useful, including about my next preventive surgery, the removal of my ovaries and fallopian tubes.

Tuberculosis or TB for short is an infectious disease that spreads through the air. It is an infection that is caused by certain bacterium called mycobacterium tuberculosis. TB usually affects the lungs however it can affect other parts of the body. It is spread when someone who has active tuberculosis coughs, sneezes or spits. The bacterium is then inhaled by another person.