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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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
By Maimunat Adeomi “Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she’s going to lose her baby or that her baby[…]