Prenatal exposure to household air pollution increased the risk for pneumonia in the first year of life, researchers reported in Chest. “Exposure to high levels of household air pollution due to cooking with biomass and other solid fuels remains common in the developing world,”Patrick L. Kinney, ScD,the Beverly A. Brown professor of urban health and sustainability in the […]
The World Health Organization has joined the Ministry of Health, the Ghana Health Service, and partners to launch the 2021 National Breastfeeding Week celebration under the theme, Protect Breastfeeding: A shared responsibility. This year’s event will focus on raising awareness and galvanizing action on protecting breastfeeding to improve public health. The week-long celebration will be […]
Abuja — On the 25th day of August 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) Africa region was certified polio free by the Africa Regional Certification Commission for Polio Eradication (ARCC), as Nigeria achieved the wild polio virus free status. Professor Oyewale Tomori, a leading virologist who helped spearhead Nigeria’s effort to kick out polio from the […]
By Royal Uche Lagos — Chichi Okafor, a 30-year-old Nigerian woman, unexpectedly became pregnant again before her daughter turned six months old. Although Okafor knew about using condoms to prevent unwanted pregnancies, she felt powerless. “My husband does not like it, so we resorted to the withdrawal method,” Okafor says. “I am three months pregnant. […]
ANALYSIS By Janusz Paweska and Michelle J. Groome As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on in Africa amid insufficient vaccination rollout, viral haemorrhagic fever has again raised its head. This adds to public health turmoil on the continent where resources to respond to emerging and re-emerging epidemic prone zoonotic diseases remain limited. In the first week […]
