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By Bankole Oluwafemi Tobacco kills. Pure and simple. Yet many people choose to overlook that fact, choosing to watch their own lifespans float up in smoke, with every puff. But the[…]
By Dr. Maimunat Ahmadu Millennium Development Goals, MDGs, for short have been on the hearts, minds and lips of every country in the world with emphasis placed on low and[…]
Analysis · Health · HealthDesk
By Temie Giwa The International Finance Corporation claims that $4.5 billion investment is needed to repair Nigeria’s health system and deliver good health care for people. This isn’t news. Anyone[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
Analysis · Health · HealthDesk
Forty years ago today, in the district of Colombia, the American Supreme Court passed a law that guarantees the right of American women to legal medical abortion. Roe V. Wade[…]