The discovery of new drugs is vital to achieving the eradication of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Africa and around the world. Now, researchers have identified traditional Ghanaian medicines that work in the laboratory against schistosomiasis, onchocerciasis, and lymphatic filariasis, three diseases endemic to Ghana, according to a PLOS publication of NTDs, copied to the […]
ANALYSISBy Anthony Idowu Ajayi The introduction of antiretroviral drugs has resulted in a remarkable decline in mother-to-child transmission of HIV. New infections among children declined by 52% worldwide and 55% in sub-Saharan Africa between 2010 and 2019. This is why universal screening of all pregnant women for HIV is so important. If all pregnant women were screened and treated, the risk […]
By Itodo Daniel Sule, Olayemi John-Mensah (Abuja), Lami Sadiq (Kaduna), Misbahu Bashir (Maiduguri), Nana-Hauwa Sule (Kano), Hope Abah Emmanuel (Makurdi), Bassey Willie (Yenagoa), Ibraheem Hamza Muhammad Contributes 20 per cent to global maternal deaths Inadequate health personnel/facilities, poverty, early marriage, key factors Banditry, insurgency hinder pregnant women from ante-natal services Nigeria is one of the […]
By Steve Otieno & Nasibo Kabale Medical laboratory workers are the latest frontline workers in healthcare to go on strike after the government failed to meet their demands. The clinical officers’ 48-hour ultimatum to the Council of Governor (CoG) lapses today, and they have therefore resumed their strike, which they had called off five days […]
By Onyebuchi Ezigbo Federal Government has given assurances that the first batch of COVID-19 vaccine will arrive in the country by the end of January. Disclosing this in an interview on ARISE TV on Sunday, the National Coordinator of the Presidential Taskforce on Control of COVID-19, Dr. Aliyu said that there was a presidential directive […]
