By Gabriel Ogunjobi – In July 2018, Mrs Emeka Jacinth lost her son, Wisdom at the tender age of 13. The widow said her son may not have died of an enlarged spleen, popularly called ‘Apa-afo’ or ‘Nwapa’ among the Igbo,…
...She said, " WHO Technical Consultation and Scientific Review of Birth Spacing recommend an interval of at least 24 months after a live birth before attempting the next pregnancy but we still find women pregnant under one year following delivery."
The Federal Government of Nigeria and Global Fund (GF) has signed an agreement for funding support of $71,216,215 towards fighting HIV/AIDS,Tuberculosis and Malaria to increase efforts in controlling the TB epidemic in Nigeria for 2019- 2020 period Speaking during the event…
Written by: Stephanie Desmon – Blecyn George Monsi has more than 50,000 Twitter followers. Alaka Olanrewaju Mayowa has nearly 54,000. Victor Salami Aka Baba Ibeji has 253,000. On a recent Friday, all three of these Nigerian social media influencers were…
Hundreds of millions of naira released for HIV campaigns, counselling and testing services may have ended in private pockets of contractors and government officials, as companies were specifically registered to siphon funds meant to save the lives of the infected. …
By Ijeoma Ukazu – Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) the successor to Millennium Development Goals, (MDGs) is targeted to achieve 17 mapped out goals by 2030. These Sustainable Development Goals were strategically designed to eliminate extreme poverty, discrimination, abuse and preventable…
By Ijeoma Ukazu – An Oncologist, Dr. Muhammad Habeebu, Head of department, Radiotherapy, Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), has said that childless women are at higher risk of having breast cancer. Making this known in Lagos at the 9th Symposium and…
To Commemorate the World Aids Day 2018 with the theme : “Know Your Status”, private organization in partnership with some Civil Society Groups have launched a 2 week National advocacy campaign on HIV The advocacy campaign which is organized by…
By Ijeoma Ukazu – To mark 2018 World AIDS Day, (WAD), the Red Ribbon Coalition, an alliance of strategic NGOs and private sector partners in Nigeria, has embarked on a two week nationwide advocacy campaign to reach over 30 thousand Nigerians…
Thirty years ago, being HIV positive was a virtual death sentence. There was no effective treatment. AZT, also known as Zidovudine—one of the earliest anti-HIV drugs—was approved in the US in 1987, but it took many years before life-saving three-drug…
