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Lead and Mines: Saving Zamfara’s Children

  • May 21, 2013

  By Tayo Olaleye In a small mining town in the North of Nigeria a few years ago, 100 children died rapidly within days and weeks of each other. No[...]

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Ten Thousand For Saving Lives

  • February 20, 2013

Every year Nigeria loses an estimated 59,000 women to predictable and easily prevented deaths. Each week, Nigerian families lose 1,131 mothers, friends, sisters and daughters to pregnancy.  The children these[...]

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Herbal Medicine in Nigeria

  • February 16, 2013

By Tayo Olaleye A while ago, I came across this article in which Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, the present Minister of Health, proposed that traditional medicines should be incorporated into the[...]

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Lead and the Kids

  • February 15, 2013

By Oluwatobi Odetola A low rumble in the dust of the North has morphed into a mighty roar into our national consciousness. Better late than never, some would say. Since[...]

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Would You Like To Be Healthy? Doctor’s Note

  • February 14, 2013

By Oyedeji Aderemi He was just 28 and became unemployed when his sight started failing him, his means of livelihood was cut off and his ability to seek medical help[...]

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Rethinking Health Care Delivery Part 2

  • February 13, 2013

By Hezekiah Shobiye In Part 1 of this series, I wrote that the Nigerian health care system is unresponsive to both the medical and non-medical needs of its patients; the Nigerian[...]

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Our Work Begins

  • December 10, 2012

Temie Giwa It is hard to be a woman in today’s world. Women’s right to choose the size of their family that has been long taken for granted is being[...]

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Violence At Home | 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence

  • November 27, 2012

By Oyedeji Aderemi Permit me this time around to talk about a patient who walked into my consulting room to seek medical assistance recently. A bright Thursday morning, sallah was[...]

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Rethinking Health Care Delivery | Part 1

  • November 21, 2012

By Hezekiah Shobiye “You are very rude. I am not your mate. I have children far older than you. You need to learn how to talk to people”.  These were[...]

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Bringing Health To Rural Nigeria

  • November 20, 2012

By Oyedeji Aderemi The difficult (hard) to reach, either due to topography of their geographical location or due to other natural disasters, are a significant portion of the total population[...]

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