Down Syndrome Association of Nigeria
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Thanks to GoodNaijaGirl…..we bring you this important post… about the …Down syndrome Association of Nigeria is a non-governmental, not-for-profit association of children…
Food for thought: Cholera/Zimababwe vs Meningitis/Nigeria
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Who remembers Cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe – The international outcry, consternation at what was happening, at a point….even some suggestion that this…
Is real reform underway in the health sector?
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Professor Babatunde Osotimehin has a tough job. He was appointed Minister of Health half way through this administration’s tenure. An administration that…
The Business of Health in Africa
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While we have focused mostly on the challenges facing the public sector in health care delivery in Nigeria, the private sector is…
The President speaks, but not about health...
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Our president hardly ever grants interviews. When The Guardian got him to sit down with them for his most detailed interview to…
"Where is the local health centre?"
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Find attached this excellent piece by my friend; Kalu Aja on his dialogue with a new friend visiting our country. A must…
Kidnapped!
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On this blog….we made a decision at the beginning that no matter how strongly we feel about other social and political issues…
Swine Flu - Before we embarrass ourselves
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Before we embarrass ourselves like the Egyptian Government that exposed the depth of their ignorance, and Africa to ridicule yet again by…
Prof Grange's new job
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….we are quick to forget. Professor Adenike Grange Former Minister of Health, who lost her job from the Umaru Yar’Adua administration over…
Malaria...too common?
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I remember growing up in Nigeria, through primary and secondary school…the several bouts of malaria, the painful chloroquine shots and a few…
2 Health Meetings in Nigeria
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The second Nigeria National Health Conference (NHC2009), will hold on 8-10 June 2009, at the Le Meridien Ibom Hotel and Resort, Uyo,…
Some Lives are more valuable than others…
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by ndubuisi edeoga Eric Arthur Blair, some of you would know him as “George Orwell” said it years ago in his famous…
Pfizer settles...but what of their collaborators at home?
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While we celebrate “justice” for Pfizer, as we did for Siemens and Halliburton…in their dealings with Nigeria…the real devil is among us,…
Pfizer settles Nigeria Trovan law suit
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The pharmaceutical company, Pfizer has reached an out of court settlement in the suit over the use of Trovan in a meningitis…