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Anastasia Mbabie (Staff Reporter)   Anambra State Governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, has congratulated Cardinal Francis Arinze on his attainment of 90 years of age. Soludo in his congratulatory message to the Cardinal said “On this special day, I join well-meaning Catholic faithful and well-wishers all over the global space, to celebrate Your Eminence.” “You have remained a reference point to Catholicism and evangelization of the gospel in Africa and beyond; a selfless Christian leader who...

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 7, 2022 Contact: Dr. Anthonia Umeh, Founder/Director ASA Women USA Cancer Coalition Tel.: 301-520-3849 Email: ucheumeh16@yahoo.com 8th Annual 5K Walk/Run for Cancer to return October 8, encourages individuals and families to get healthy WASHINGTON, DC – The 8th Annual 5K Walk for Hope & Fight to End Cancer presented by the nonprofit dedicated to cancer advocacy, awareness, education, cancer treatment and research, and maternal health medical mission to the underprivileged abroad,...

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With the upsurge of suicide in Nigeria, Prof Aishatu Yusha’u Armiya’u of the Psychiatry department, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University and Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi said young women were on the high side of those who committed suicide in Nigeria. Prof Aishatu Armiya’u who stated this in an interview said recent studies in Nigeria said 80 percent of suicide reports were by men. However when age was used younger women committed suicide more than men....

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By Anastasia Mbabie and Handel Patrick (Staff Reporters)   In its efforts to eliminate malaria, the Anambra State Government in collaboration with the National Malaria Elimination Programme (NMEP), and Malaria Consortium (MC) with support from GiveWell Open Philanthropic funding is set to distribute 3.8 million insecticide-treated nets to residents, to reduce the scourge of malaria in the state. Speaking at the media orientation roundtable on the implementation of the Insecticide-Treated Net Campaign, in Awka, on...

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ENUGU — The healthcare centre in Orba Udenu Local Government Area, Enugu State has received some medical equipment from Dave Ogbonnaya Ugwu, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Dumaco Best Properties Limited. Some of the equipment includes two Neonatal incubators, phototherapy machine, two Radiant warmers, a portable Anesthetic machine, and others. Presenting the equipment to Udenu Type-3 Healthcare centre in the presence of the Commissioner for Health, Dr. Ikechukwu Obi, and the management team of the...

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ABUJA — The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire has launched a compendium of Best practices of the National Tuberculosis, Leprosy, and Buruli Ulcer Control Programme in Abuja to serve as a reference point for other public health responses. At the inauguration in Abuja, the Minister said the document which was a compilation of strategic interventions in the fight against TB would be useful for stakeholders in the sector. He explained that it was in...

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President Muhammadu Buhari has signed into law, the National Health Insurance Authority Bill 2022. The newly signed Act has repealed the National Health Insurance Scheme Act 2004. Speaking during the signing of the bill, Buhari said the new law makes provisions for the setup of a trust fund “to ensure the coverage of 83 million poor Nigerians who cannot afford to pay premiums as recommended by the Lancet Nigeria Commission”. “For the large number of...

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A public health physician, Dr. Chinonso Egemba, popularly known as ‘Aproko Doctor’, has warned women against smoking shisha, noting that indulging in the act can make their breasts sag. Dr. Egemba also noted that those smoking shisha—a single- or multi-stemmed instrument for heating or vaporising and then smoking either tobacco, flavored tobacco, or sometimes cannabis, hashish, and opium through a water basin, often glass-based, before inhalation—are equally more at risk of looking older than their...

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Nigerian LGBTQ rights activist, Bisi Alimi is celebrating 18 years of living with HIV. Alimi, who gained international recognition when he became the first Nigerian to come out as gay on television, said he hid his HIV status for five years because of shame and stigma. “Eighteen years ago, at the national AIDS conference in Abuja and with nudging from friends, I walked into a testing booth for the first time,” his post on Facebook...

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“Spit don’t rinse” is the message from a medical practitioner, Dr. Olufunmilayo Adeniyi as she reveals many of us could be putting our oral health at risk by making the mistake of rinsing after we brush our teeth. Speaking in an interview on Your View – a TV programme on Television Continental – Dr. Adeniyi said rinsing the mouth immediately after brushing washes away the concentrated fluoride in the remaining toothpaste by diluting it and reducing its preventative effects...

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