The World Medical Association (WMA) has advocated for a stronger ethical guidance especially in the troubling times of unending conflicts, violence against physicians, and despicable attempts by some repressive governments to undermine the fundamental freedoms, professional autonomy and clinical independence of physicians. Dr. Osahon Enabulele, the immediate past president of WMA disclosed this at the launch of Lancet Commission’s Report on Medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust, held in Berlin, Germany. Enabulele, who represented the WMA...

The National coordinator of Association of People Living with Sickle Cell Disease, Mrs Aisha Edward has given a chilling account of how a member of the association was abandoned in the hospital by his relatives, after his death. Below is the account… Sickle Cell persons often face the worst forms of discrimination and stigmatization from their family members and relatives. Even at death, their troubles never end, as their corpse are subjected to horrific treatments...