By Albert Akpor WORRIED by the degree of ignorance amongst women, especially officers wives, of the deadly nature of breast and cervical cancer, the Nigerian Navy Officers Wives (NOWA) has commenced a vigorous campaign against these terminal diseases. Already, wives of serving officers have begun screening with a view to detecting the presence of these […]

TOWARDS mitigating the rising incidence of cervical cancer in the country, the National Cervical Cancer Prevention Programme (NCCPP) is advocating for incorporation and use of the new Digene HPV test introduced by Qiagen N.V., a Netherlands holding company and leading global provider of sample and assay technologies, into the national cervical cancer screening programme in Nigeria.

IT was a day of festive fun on Saturday June 6, 2009 at the Murhi Okunlola Park, Victoria Island, Lagos, when the Bridge Clinic, a leading fertility clinic in Lagos, organised a children’s party to herald its success 10th year of successful assisted reproductive interventions in the form of IVF.

It is indisputable that women in the country are dying before, during or after childbirth. The lamentation of unnecessary loss of lives has been on for so long it is beginning to sound like a broken record.

WHEN the 62nd World Health Assembly opened at the Palais de Nations in Geneva Switzerland on May 18, 2009, one of the major health concerns of international interest, besides the (then) looming H1N1 influenza (swine flu) pandemic, was the race towards global target for eradication of poliomyelitis.