[ad_1] •PCN intensifies efforts to relocate medicine dealers in open drug markets to Coordinated Wholesale Centres•Commends Gov Soludo for fast tracking plan to relocate popular Head Bridge drug market in Onitsha The Pharmacists Council of Nigeria, (PCN) has said that open drug markets constitute a threat to public health, adding that a large percentage of…
[ad_1] BY ONYEKACHI ONU I cannot claim to know Senator Ike Ekweremadu for ages, but I certainly have a glimpse of his personality. I knew little about him before 2017, except that he was one of the three senators representing my state, Enugu, at the national assembly. In Nigeria, the distance between our leaders and…
[ad_1] MANY people living with HIV/AIDS also use herbal remedies to treat symptoms of HIV infection or to ameliorate side effects of the antiretroviral drugs and other disease conditions such as malaria, asthma, arthritis, diabetes, and hypertension. Now, researchers in a study warn that combining antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) with Ocimum gratissium extract is dangerous to…
[ad_1] Healthcare delivery in Nigeria has faced major challenges toward achieving universal health coverage. While significant progress was made in the first two decades after the country’s independence in 1960, the economic downturn resulting from the plummeting of oil price of which Nigeria was dependent led to a series of twists and turns in the…
[ad_1] The Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP) has appealed to the Nigerian government to halt all forms of discriminatory and unfair practices against other health professionals in the country. The union in a statement issued and signed by its president, Obinna Ogbonna, to commemorate the 2022 Health Sector Reform Day, said there is…
[ad_1] The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on drug manufacturer Pfizer to do more to ensure that its new COVID-19 oral antiviral medication is available quickly to provide effective treatment to countries that may struggle to afford it. WHO director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus made the appeal as confirmed coronavirus cases jumped nearly 30 per cent…
[ad_1] How depression, addictions keep Nigeria’s drug barons in business – Businessday NG Health BDlead,Drug abuse Home Health How depression, addictions keep Nigeria’s drug barons in business [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Ntsu, once used exclusively by traditional healers to connect with their ancestors, is gaining popularity among youth who are struggling to resist this form of smokeless tobacco. Young women in KwaZulu-Natal have especially taken to ntsu, which is usually sniffed through the nose or placed on the lower lip. Nomagugu Zungu* shared her story…
[ad_1] The AMBITION-cm trial was conducted in eight hospitals across Africa, including the Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain Hospitals in Cape Town. It found that a single dose of L-AmB infused over a few hours, followed by two weeks of flucytosine and fluconazole is as effective as the WHO’s previously recommended standard of care. PHOTO: Nasief…
[ad_1] Poor maternal mental health may have impacts on the physical, emotional, and neurological development of newborns and children. (Envato Elements) In the year after giving birth, 10% of women in South Africa who experience depression or anxiety could be at risk for taking their own lives. Poorer women are less likely to get the…
