Analysis · Health · HealthDesk
Doctor’s Note: Episode One
By Remi Oyedeji The immediate unaffordable cost of Medical care pushes them to choose a more fatal option that is cheap in the short run. The landscape of our[…]
Category: Health
Analysis · Health · HealthDesk
Paying For Health in Nigeria Part 1
By Hez Shobiye The difficulty of paying out of pockets put most Nigerians in a great deal of financial risk and restricts them from having direct access to health care[…]
Analysis · Health · HealthDesk
The Doctors are on Strike. Again.
By Seyi Taylor It is this negligence of the whole picture while so much attention is given on the small one that worries me. If the medical profession would spend[…]
Resurrecting the National Health Bill
by Sylva Nze Ifedigbo The National Health Bill 2011 gathers dust in one of the Aso Rock’s cabinets, unsigned and thus not in effect, close to a year after the[…]
HEALTH SPOTLIGHT: ABIYE
Ondo State, three years ago had the highest maternal mortality rates in the southwest region of Nigeria. At the time, the landscape of the country was littered with mothers bleeding[…]
Analysis · Culture and Society · Health
FGM in Nigeria: Raze the Abattoirs of Clitoral Disgust
One case of a death from FGM and the fact that it is still prevalent calls for action against the perpetrators in the main but if the activity cannot be outlawed it must only be done under medical supervision.
Nigeria: Letting Our Children Live Like Dogs
We need to tackle an emergency that has our children live like dogs in the name of some higher but unconscionable goal.
Culture and Society · General · Health · Review
Nigeria: Facing down the impunity of domestic violence
A husband’s murder of his wife brings into sharp focus our acceptance of the impunity of domestic violence and sometimes the preference of that for the sake of keeping a loveless marriage going to appease the needs for tradition and societal norms.
Stillbirth, A special horror
The state of maternal health in Nigeria is nothing to be happy about. Mothers die regularly either before or after the birthing process. Regrettably, Pregnancy in Nigeria is now a[…]
What We Are Reading: Happy Birthday HIV and AIDS!
It will soon (on 5 June) be the birthday of HIV and AIDS. It is now 30 years since they arrived on the health horizon to change our world forever.[…]