Information is power? Keeping it hidden is also powerful!
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A lot of interesting bilateral health related initiatives seem to be happening behind the scenes in Nigeria. One is reassured by the…
Health in the News in August: Beautiful, Bad and Ugly
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The press was full of interesting health related news articles out of Nigeria in August. Find a summary attached. Maybe there is…
Is your health digging an unhealthy hole in your pocket?....
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The provision of private health care in Nigeria is changing. This change is most profound among staff and dependants of the public…
Why you should give blood
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Found this extremely important posting on Naijablog. Just as important is to ask Nigerians and Africans in the Diaspora to become organ…
NIGERIAN CITIES DROWN IN MOUNTAINS OF GARBAGE
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Things have never been this bad. Our epileptic industrialisation is leaving problems we cannot cope with. If I told my son that…
MCDN awakes…Kerosene explosions continue
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NTA news….reports the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria is holding its annual congress in Abuja and has made a strong statement…
1st Set of Graduates from a Private Medical School in Africa
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On the 31st of July 2007, the Igbinedion University , Nigeria’s first private university graduated its first set of 29 medical students….
Testing is free, drugs are free, go for voluntary counselling and testing!
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Flipping through the dailies in Nigeria, it is good to note how HIV/AIDS prevention messages have evolved and developed ….from the days…
Still on Covenant Univerity's compulsory HIV testing
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The insistence of Covenant University, believed to be Nigeria’s best private University to justify their policy of pre-graduation compulsory HIV and pregnancy…
Good news...Birth Registration Strategy! Health Minister - Not yet!
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Good news for public health planning, evaluation and research. The Federal Government has said it would on July 24, formally launch a…
Proudly Nigerian at TEDGlobal
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Having been recommended by a friend, I ended up with 99 other young Africans that received a fellowship to attend a conference…
Pfizer and the 1996 meningitis outbreak in Nigeria: Who is lying?, and 9 other questions
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It is now common knowledge that Pfizer used a drug trovafloxacin (commonly called Trovan) to treat Nigerians in a 1996 cerebrospinal meningitis…
Another Measles Outbreak
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The Nigerian Guardian reports that 60 children have died from a measles outbreak in Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. 400 other children are…
Blogging Nigeria's Health Scene
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Why start a blog about health and health care in Nigera, who has time to read them…and really who cares? Questions we…