Health

Cervical cancer: MSD seeks push beyond HPV vaccination

Cervical cancer: MSD seeks push beyond HPV vaccination

…18m girls vaccinated, but elimination fight far from over…Stakeholders seek stronger private-sector role in cancer care By Joseph Erunke, Abuja Nigeria must move beyond its gains in Human Papillomavirus, HPV, vaccination and urgently strengthen cervical cancer screening, early diagnosis and treatment, the External Affairs Director for sub-Saharan Africa at MSD, Vuyo Mjekula, has said. Mjekula […]
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Afribaby promotes infant, maternal survival

Afribaby promotes infant, maternal survival

Unlike babies in developed countries, many babies in Africa suffer undernourishment, malnutrition, insufficiencies, inadequate attention and insecurity right from birth. Most babies’ condition in Africa cries for a new kind of attention that is synergistic, connective, communicative and all-embracing.

Help! Suliamon seeks N24m to restore his sight

Help! Suliamon seeks N24m to restore his sight

If time could be turned back, no one would appreciate it better than 34- year- old Sulaimon Akorede Odunuga. For him, such a feat would be a way of undoing the circumstances that led to the loss of his sight couple of years back.

Nigeria’s poor healthcare system revisited

Nigeria’s poor healthcare system revisited

Since I wrote “Poor healthcare system: Nigeria’s moral indifference” in 2005 detailing staggering inadequacies in healthcare system in Nigeria, little or no improvement has been witnessed in the healthcare sector. People in Nigeria continue to experience avoidable deaths; they continue to die of treatable illness. It is rather absurd!

Do you sympathise or empathise?

Do you sympathise or empathise?

The incessant reportage of sexual violations against minors is cause for crying ‘It’s a Wolf’. However, the sexual molestation of minors is not a new phenomenon and has existed for generations in various forms. There has been a conspiracy against the females form the day of birth, first from the Garden of Eden and has rolled down over ages.
One imminent query is why do they sexually molest or violate children or any person at all? Big question, you may ask? Human nature is the first thing that creeps to mind but the oddity is the age bracket and positions of perpetrators and victims.

Fertility Clinic: Diagonising and evaluating tubal problems

Fertility Clinic: Diagonising and evaluating tubal problems

Tubal disease, also one of the many causes of female infertility, is a disorder in which the fallopian tubes are blocked or damaged. The fallopian tube is an active, muscular organ that retrieves the egg from the ovary and coaxes it toward the oncoming sperm.