[ad_1] Leaders, development partners and government ministries have called for universal guaranteed access to water and sanitation services in Africa. The stakeholders resolved this in a communique issued at the end of the 21st African Water Association International Congress and Exhibition and the seventh Faecal Sludge Management Conference in Abidjan. The communique, issued on the…
[ad_1] The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital in collaboration with ‘Friends of LASUTH’, has provided free cataract surgery to residents of the Ojokoro community in the Ojokoro Local Government Development Area. According to a press statement issued by LASUTH and mage available to PUNCH HealthWise, the free cataract surgery was an offshoot of a free…
[ad_1] How sex work is regulated strongly influences how safe workers’ jobs are. In South Africa, where laws make it illegal to buy or sell sex, 70% of female sex workers in a countrywide survey in 2019 said they had experienced violence from clients in the previous year, while almost six out of 10 had…
[ad_1] Lara Adejoro An outbreak of diphtheria infection has claimed 61 lives in Kano state as of March 2, 2023. The Kano State Case Manager, Dr. Salma Suwaid disclosed this on Monday at a webinar organised by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention with the theme ‘Diptheria outbreak in Nigeria: Vaccination Response.’ Dr….
[ad_1] By GILBERT MWIJUKE New research shows there has been a significant drop in HIV/Aids rate in Uganda since the early 1990s. The study by the Uganda Virus Research Institute in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, has found that new infections in men declined by 88 per…
[ad_1] Twenty-three persons have died and 24 injured, in a gory accident on the Kintampo-Tamale Highway, on Sunday. Reports gathered by the Ghanaian Times indicated that 22 passengers, made up of four women, one child and 17 men, died on the spot, while one passed on at the hospital while receiving treatment. The manglled vehicle…
Traditional birth attendants are more trusted, affordable – 29-year old mother of three Many suburban dwellers unaware of Nigeria’s National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) established 1999 – now National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) Nigeria’s maternal and child health indices are among the world’s worst – WHO 50 percent reduction in Egypt’s…
[ad_1] Sodiq Ojuroungbe A new study has indicated that there is a significant relationship between body mass index and mortality, revealing that mortality risk increases linearly as BMI increases. The study also countered some previous findings which suggested a survival benefit from overweight and lower levels of obesity in particular groups. In what is known…
[ad_1] You’ve been using our fat calculator in your droves, working out your BMI (body mass index) and comparing the result with people in your age group and your part of the UK. But a few people have been critical. They say using BMI to measure whether they are healthy, overweight or obese is misleading. So what’s…
[ad_1] The Agona Swedru Circuit Court has sentenced a farmer to 14 years imprisonment in hard labour for sodomising a 13-year-old boy. The convict, Eric Asiedu, 39, also known as Agya Yaw, pleaded not guilty to the charge of sodomy. The prosecutor, Sergeant Emmanuel Akunor, told the court, presided over by Mr Jonathan Nunoo, that…
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