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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
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[…]
Rethinking Health Care Delivery | Part 1
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[…]
Bringing Health To Rural Nigeria
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[…]
Aids In Nigeria
By Tayo Olaleye It is hard to miss the attention AIDS has been getting recently. The war against HIV is one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG); aiming to halt[…]
Supporting Health Workers
By Maimunat Adeomi In 2007, during my National Youth Service (NYSC) in Ilara Mokin, a small town in Ifedore Local Government of Ondo State, I experienced first hand working without[…]
Doctor’s Note: Health & Burden
By Oyedeji Aderemi It is a beautiful morning, troubles of yesterday dreamt away through the night, new challenges rising with the sun. Patients will walk into this office today, with[…]
Paying For Health In Nigeria | Part Four
By Hezekiah Shobiye This edition rounds up the series on ‘Paying for Health in Nigeria’. In Part 3, I concluded that the aim of an equitable and efficient health financing[…]
The Road To Health: Health Desk Third Edition
Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that America’s attempt to create a more equitable health system was constitutional to the collective relief of most American who[…]
The White – Black Man Disease
By Tolu Okitika “It is time we changed the archaic conviction that only communicable diseases deserves urgent attention. Chronic diseases are no longer “white man’s diseases”. It is already here[…]