If you’ve been paying any attention to what’s important on the news and not the trivialities on social media (like why guys should not call ladies on Whatsapp), then you’d know that Lassa fever is back and has claimed lives in several parts of the country in the last one month. In July, a student... Read More

Lassa fever, prevention, rats, rodents, spread, virus

January 18, 2017

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#Impact365: “Cancer is NOT a death sentence” | Tolulope Falowo of CancerAware Nigeria advocates cancer control

It’s still Cervical Cancer Awareness month and cancer awareness NGOs across the country are working extra hard to spread the word about the cancer epidemic as it affects Nigeria. Not only are they spreading the word, numerous activities geared towards early detection and prevention are being carried out across the different parts. We caught up... Read More

Citizenship, Featured, Thinking Through

awareness, cancer, canceraware nigeria, early detection, HPV, Impact365, nigeria, prevention, screening

December 9, 2016

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#Impact365: Caleb Egwuenu’s NGO is standing up to cancer in Nigeria and making sure the awareness is non-stop

This scourge called cancer has cut short lives of millions of men, women and children across the world. The attendant myths are the reason why the awareness campaigns can never be enough. Then there’s the screening stage where a lot of people dread as it is when the truth is revealed. Through these stages, patients... Read More

Citizenship, Featured

awareness, breast cancer, cancer, cervical cancer, Impact365, Initiative, NCD, NGO, nigeria, patient support, prevention, research, screening, StandUp2Cancer

September 29, 2016

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Cholera: Does Ambode need to impose one more sanitation day on Lagosians?

Ebola came and we conquered. So it is surprising that a country that could manage the crisis of such an outbreak and break through the shackles that dreaded disease would still be reporting casualties from Cholera. Worst still, a state like Lagos. The state has recorded two notable cholera outbreaks since 2013. We reported the... Read More

Cholera, disease outbreaks, lagos state, prevention, WHO

May 27, 2016

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Opinion: And yes they lied about coconut oil (the tree of life)

By Temi Tex Ipinmoroti News flash: it is a known fact, that nothing concocted in a laboratory can have enormous value or replaced with something found in nature. Mother Nature has been generous to us in Africa, providing us with loads of fruits and vegetables for our usage, to nourish our body and gives us a... Read More

benefit, coconut, Health, Oil, prevention, skin, wealth

June 28, 2014

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Opinion: Wait, what is Nigeria doing to prevent an Ebola virus outbreak?

by Chinedu George Nnawetanma The scary part of the picture is that the disease has no known cure. An erstwhile little-known scourge, the Ebola virus disease has spread like wildfire through the western parts of the West African sub-region since the first case was reported early this year. According to Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders)... Read More

Chinedu George Nnawetanma, ebola virus, nigeria, opinion, outbreak, prevention, ynaija

December 27, 2013

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Good news: Researchers discover wonder drug which may prevent AIDS

Research led by scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, San Fransisco, United States has identified the precise chain of molecular events in the human body that drives the death of most of the immune system’s CD4 T cells as an HIV infection leads to AIDS. Further, they have identified an existing anti-inflammatory drug that in laboratory... Read More

AIDS, ARV, cellular suicide, death, Drug, hiv, prevention, Scientists, wonder drug

December 11, 2012

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Solomon Osadolo: Looking through time (Y! Superblogger)

Why do we think knowing what’s ahead is necessarily a good thing? Having a premonition about an unpalatable event doesn’t necessarily equip you with the ability to avert it. Humans have always been fascinated by the prospects of the future. We usually glance back at past memories with nostalgia and tend to be a touch... Read More

future, Precognition, prevention, Sci-fi, time travel

July 12, 2012

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Study: Pill to prevent HIV produces some results

by Chi Ibe The findings of three major studies in Africa recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show different results as trials examining the use of anti-retroviral drugs in healthy heterosexuals as a way to prevent HIV were conducted. The research has raised many questions about which groups would likely benefit and... Read More

hiv, PrEP, prevention

Lassa fever: 5 effective ways to keep rats away from your home

#Impact365: “Cancer is NOT a death sentence” | Tolulope Falowo of CancerAware Nigeria advocates cancer control

#Impact365: Caleb Egwuenu’s NGO is standing up to cancer in Nigeria and making sure the awareness is non-stop

Cholera: Does Ambode need to impose one more sanitation day on Lagosians?

Opinion: And yes they lied about coconut oil (the tree of life)

Opinion: Wait, what is Nigeria doing to prevent an Ebola virus outbreak?

Good news: Researchers discover wonder drug which may prevent AIDS

Solomon Osadolo: Looking through time (Y! Superblogger)

Study: Pill to prevent HIV produces some results

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