Sexual and Reproductive Health with Isaac Eranga

 Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin BIOGRAPHY On 1 January 2011, Dr. Babatunde Osotimehin, a physician and public health expert, became only the fourth Executive Director of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. He holds the rank of Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations. Before this appointment, Dr. Osotimehin was Nigeria’s Minister of Health. Prior to that, he was Director-General of Nigeria’s National Agency for the Control of AIDS, which coordinates HIV and AIDS work in a country of more than 160 million people. Dr. Osotimehin qualified as a doctor from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in 1972, and went to the University of Birmingham, England, where he got a doctorate in medicine in 1979. He was appointed Professor at the University of Ibadan in 1980 and headed the Department of Clinical Pathology before being elected Provost of the College of Medicine in 1990. Years later, he served in several organizations, including as Chair of the National Act

Notagain Campaign NPHCDA SET TO ENHANCE MATERNAL, CHILD HEALTH –SURE The National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA, has set up a steering committee in Ekiti State towards ensuring the successful implementation of its SUREP Maternal and Child Health, MCH, Conditional Cash Transfer, CCT programme. Its Executive Director/ CEO, Dr. Ado Muhammad, said the project targeted improvement of maternal and child health through properly equipped facilities with workers capable of providing s ervice delivery. Muhammad, who spoke during the inauguration of the committee in Ado- Ekiti at the weekend, said “the CCT project is not only designed to encourage pregnant women to go through the full continuum of maternal, neonatal and child health services, it is also meant to improve the welfare of beneficiaries through cash support in order to reduce the impact of economic barriers to access health services.” Maternal Child Mortality Drops In Nigeria – Project Direct

Notagain Campaign About 150,000 women suffering from obstetrics fistula are awaiting surgical operations, the Engender Health, a nongovern-mental organization, has disclosed. The country programme manager, Fistula Care Plus project, Dr Habib Sadauki disclosed this yesterday in Abuja during the launch of the project. Fistula is the occurrence of an abnormal hole between the bladder or rectum and the vagina characterized by continuous and uncontrollable leakage of urine and/or faeces following childbirth. “We are at a critical time in Nigeria where we can make even greater impact so that more women living with fistula can be treated. We have an estimated number of 150,000 cases of fistula in the country still waiting to be repaired and on annual basis, we see about 12,000 new cases in the country. “We also want to encourage mothers to prepare for their birth and deliver in health facilities where a professional will take their delivery and they will not go int