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- Premium Health lauds National Health Bill 2 Nov 2009 23:50 GMT
... THE Health Bill before the National Assembly would create ... good, affordable and quality care services to Nigerians in the rural areas. He said the ... with imminent extension of community-based programme for pregnant women and children ...
- Abortion Law: Mixed feelings greet call by ECOWAS Ministers of Health 2 Nov 2009 23:50 GMT
... African States (ECOWAS) for the passage of abortion laws all its member States including Nigeria, has been received with mixed feelings. The call ... health policies are required to reduce unplanned pregnancy and unsafe abortion. The Ministers recalled the ...
- West African Health Ministers call for enactment of abortion laws 6 Nov 2009 16:30 GMT
... African Health Ministers call for enactment of abortion laws Health Ministers from the Economic Community ... ECOWAS Health Ministers, held in South East Nigeria’s Cross Rivers State. The Ministers said in ... MMR, saying that abortion laws would reduce pregnancy-related death among women. The ministers also said ...
- People Will Fear Flu Vaccine "Adverse Events" 4 Nov 2009 04:32 GMT
... health conditions, such as Guillain-Barre syndrome, spontaneous abortion or even death will occur in coincident ... vaccination," they wrote. For every 1 million pregnant women vaccinated, 397 will have a miscarriage, ... efforts to eradicate the paralyzing virus in Nigeria, they added. People have special fears about Guillain ...
- People will fear flu vaccine 2 Nov 2009 04:31 GMT
... health conditions, such as Guillain-Barre syndrome, spontaneous abortion or even death will occur in coincident ... vaccination," they wrote. For every 1 million pregnant women vaccinated, 397 will have a miscarriage, ... efforts to eradicate the paralyzing virus in Nigeria, they added. People have special fears about Guillain ...
- Kidnapping in Anambra is prelude to anarchy - Ngige 3 Nov 2009 01:37 GMT
... who had since departed the US for Nigeria, invited the Vanguard to his Maryland residence ... a SAN for my Attorney-General and an obstetrician, a professor of medicine, for my health portfolio. My agriculture commissioner had to be ...
- Locally-Growing Moringa Tree Key in Fight Against Malaria 3 Nov 2009 22:13 GMT
... Kenya, this development has been made by Nigerians who say the drug called zogali has ... and accepted after trials by the World Health Organisation. If this drug wins wider acceptance, ... in the prevention of malaria infection in pregnant mothers. The new drug, whose development enters Phase ...
- Good Nutrition - Key to Healthy Mothers, Kids 2 Nov 2009 18:11 GMT
... advocates for maternal and child healthcare in Nigeria. Held in Lagos, the theme was: "Nutrition ... through adequate nutrition,' Dr. Chinyere Ezeaka, Consultant Paediatrician, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH, said satisfactory ... nutritional disorder and may result in ill health and untimely death. She said good nutrition ...
- Scrapping user fees "just the first step" 4 Nov 2009 18:43 GMT
... government plans to make healthcare free for pregnant and lactating women and under-fives by January 2010. ... million people, minimal medical supplies and a health infrastructure still crawling back from 11 years ... care in a sustainable way. Doctors from Nigeria and Cuba are due in Sierra Leone in ...
- Academy Award-Winning Actor Forest Whitaker to Keynote Symposium on Maternal and Infant Mortality in Africa 6 Nov 2009 16:31 GMT
... 1 in 16 chance of dying in pregnancy or childbirth, compared to a 1 in 4,000 ... between poor and rich countries of any health indicator.(1) Additionally, sub-Saharan Africa remains the most ... back to the Igbo tribe of eastern Nigeria. In a traditional ceremony, he was made an ...
- INI EDO-EHIAGWINA says ''sorry my marriage is intact'' 3 Nov 2009 03:52 GMT
... unforgettable holiday and business experience in Accra. Health is not simply the absence of sickness. ... Houston , when are you back in Nigeria ? ......Yes I'm on holidays right now and ... and the speculations was that you were pregnant and all of a sudden you lost weight ...
- Use the Sun to Kill Germs in Water 2 Nov 2009 13:33 GMT
... a book with a record of one's health from birth, and the tests carried out ... which is the result of studies in Nigeria that show that mothers could be better than ... especially where a record of the mother's pregnancy and the child's medical history were placed in ...
- ASUU Strike - The Victims, The Beneficiaries 4 Nov 2009 09:33 GMT
... about 7.30am. He was found to be pregnant with 59 wraps of hard drugs, which ... what the suspects termed crime against the Nigerian students. That was the crux of the confession ... educational system. According to Abiodun Awosusi, a medical student at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile ...
- Medical problems may not be result of swine flu vaccine 1 Nov 2009 05:10 GMT
... the paralyzing Guillain-Barre syndrome or have spontaneous abortions, and that doesn't necessarily mean that their ... experts expect that for every 1 million pregnant women who get the swine flu shot, ... may also mask legitimate vaccine concerns. In Nigeria, fears that the oral polio vaccine causes HIV ...
- Ecowas Health Ministers Call For Passage of Abortion Laws 30 Oct 2009 03:33 GMT
... states have called for the passage of abortion laws.The call was contained in a communiqu½ ... Obudu Mountain Resort in Cross River State, Nigeria. In the communique made available to newsmen yesterday ... the number of women who die from pregnancy related causes. The ministers noted the importance ...
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