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Fear of Epidemic Grips Opialu Community As Reddish, Wormy Parasites(?) Spread Over Its Section of River Ogbadibo in Nigeria’s Benue State

Posted By: adminon: April 13, 2025In: De-EscalationTags: Akpodo, Benue State, Cholera, Community health intelligence, Gammalin-20, Historical vulnerability, OCDA, Okpokwu LGA, Opialu, River Ogbadibo, River Ogege, River Okpokwu, UNICEF, WHONo CommentsViews:
Fear of Epidemic Grips Opialu Community As Reddish, Wormy Parasites(?) Spread Over Its Section of River Ogbadibo in Nigeria’s Benue State

37 years after a horrific cholera outbreak in the Opialu community in Okpokwu Local Government Area of Nigeria’s Benue State, it is under siege again from an unknown parasites(?). Opialu, a... Read more

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Goodbye to HIV?

Posted By: adminon: July 05, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Gilead sciences, HIV, Len LA, PrEp, WHONo CommentsViews:
Goodbye to HIV?

HIV is the classic success story global health governance claims. Yet, the world has not be able to say goodbye to the virus. But in what looks like a case of better late than never, it look... Read more

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Towards a Nigerian Model of Quick (Malaria) Vaccine Delivery to Remote Villages

Posted By: adminon: May 07, 2024In: SpectacleTags: HPV, Immunisation, Malaria, Mercury Project, Sierra Leoneans, UNICEF, Vaccination, WHONo CommentsViews:
Towards a Nigerian Model of Quick (Malaria) Vaccine Delivery to Remote Villages

The concern of the authors of this piece was management of Covid-19. Intervention is more concerned with malaria in the rural areas where there are no doctors. Although the local governments... Read more

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A Visit To A Flower Farm in Kenya

Posted By: adminon: November 15, 2023In: Policy & GovernanceTags: A Black Rose, Amsterdam, Kenyans, Picking of flowers, WHONo CommentsViews:
A Visit To A Flower Farm in Kenya

By Dr Yusuf Bangura We enjoyed a very educative, guided tour of one of Kenya’s flourishing flower growing and processing farms in Naivasha during a recent trip there. This is a huge farm are... Read more

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Nigeria Insists On Urgent WHO Listing of Noma on Its NTD

Posted By: adminon: June 22, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Africa, Dakar, MSF, NIGERIA, Noma, NTD, Sokoto, Tropics, WHONo CommentsViews:
Nigeria Insists On Urgent WHO Listing of Noma on Its NTD

Nigeria is plugging into global health governance with the case for the declaration of Noma disease as one of the Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Ni... Read more

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Disease X and Africa: The Creation of Disease Narratives

Posted By: adminon: June 17, 2022In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, Bushmeat, CHINA, COVID-19, Disease X, Ebola, RCCE, WHONo CommentsViews:
Disease X and Africa: The Creation of Disease Narratives

By Catherine Grant, (Research Officer, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK) & Kelley Sams (Assistant Professor, University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine)... Read more

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Rising Up to Severe Acute Malnutrition, (SAM)

Posted By: adminon: January 09, 2022In: Policy & GovernanceTags: CORRUPTION, SAM, SDGs, UNICEF, WHONo CommentsViews:
Rising Up to Severe Acute Malnutrition, (SAM)

By The Woman Today* (SAM) is a killer that must be stopped and banished to the annals of history. This killer ignored by successive governments of Nigeria, SAM results from the absence or sh... Read more

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Welcoming Some 2021 Survivors of Covid-19 to 2022

Posted By: adminon: January 07, 2022In: FlashbackTags: 'Last born', WHO, WIN, WINnerNo CommentsViews:
Welcoming Some 2021 Survivors of Covid-19 to 2022

It is still not too late welcoming known survivors of Covid-19 in 2021 to 2022. Doing so is considered important partly because Covid-19 established itself in Nigeria as the most no-nonsense... Read more

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Cuba Does It Again, Beats US, Other Wealthy Nations To It

Posted By: adminon: December 29, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: Africa, COVID-19, Cuba, Intellectual property rights, US, WHONo CommentsViews:
Cuba Does It Again, Beats US, Other Wealthy Nations To It

Cuba has done it again. It has vaccinated 90% of the population according to a widely circulating story, (TheHill, for example). Cuba created multiple Covid-19 vaccines in addition to aggres... Read more

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But for the EU, Africa Would Have Stabbed Her Own for WHO Job?

Posted By: adminon: October 30, 2021In: World From AfricaTags: African agency, CHINA, COVID-19, EU, US, WHONo CommentsViews:
But for the EU, Africa Would Have Stabbed Her Own for WHO Job?

But for the European Union, (EU), Ethiopia’s Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus would not have been renominated for another term as Director-General of the World Health Organisation, (WHO). Reut... Read more

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