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 […]
Gender & domestic violence: Agitation heightens for passage of VAPP Bill
‘MAKE it Happen. Pass the VAPP bill”. This was the crux of the message from Nigerians to the country’s Senate as the world marked this year’s International Women’s Day, IWD, Sunday, March 8.
Dentists seek sustainable oral care services
Nigerian dentists have called for an urgent development of sustainable strategies for national preventive and therapeutic oral health services to cope with the magnitude of oral health challenges in the country.
Ebola: Airtel unveils 7979 shortcode
Following its recent partnership with the African Union (AU) Commission to support the fight against Ebola in West Africa, telecoms operator, Airtel Nigeria, has announced the 7979 SMS short-code, to help raise funds and drive awareness for the initiative.
Exercise for better sex
Getting physical can ramp up the pleasure for you and your partner. Any activity that gets your heart beating faster and you breathing harder, from brisk walking to cycling, can boost blood flow —for both genders: stronger erections for men, and greater arousal for women.
Lifeline Case of the 13-year-old with IUCD
SOME months ago, a 13-year-old girl turned up at the Family Planning Clinic in one of the Mother & Child Centres, MCCs, in Lagos. Family planning providers were shocked to discover, on examination, that the unnamed girl had a contraceptive device—the Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Device, IUCD (a.k.a The Coil) inserted as a fertility control method.
