Sexual and Reproductive Health with Isaac Eranga

From HIV to Ebola: How to protect health workers in West Africa By Devex Editor 18 August 2014 People wearing protective gear in Sierra Leone, one of the countries dealing with the Ebola outbreak. Photo by: Cyprien Fabre / European Commission  / CC BY-ND EDITOR’S NOTE: What can we learn from the global response to HIV and AIDS that can be applied now to aid workers dealing with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa? Mead Over, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, urges donors to help affected governments protect health workers in Ebola-affected areas. As the Ebola epidemic in West Africa endures, some parallels are being drawn between the virus and HIV and AIDS. Both are spread by quite specific human behavior which is under conscious control: HIV by unprotected sex, Ebola by unsanitary burial practices, and both by contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person. However, with an incubation period of less than three weeks, Ebola progresses fr

500 days and counting: Progress for girls and women means progress for all By Jill Sheffield , Katja Iversen 18 August 2014 Women and girls at the Abu Shouk camp for internally displaced persons in Sudan attend an English class facilitated by the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operations in Darfur. Investing in women and girls is the most cost-effective way to advance the Millennium Development Goals. Photo by: Albert González Farran / United Nations  / CC BY-NC-ND August 18 marks 500 days remaining before the Millennium Development Goals expire at the end of 2015. Some countries are on track to meet those goals and some are not, and central to the difference is their relative levels of investment in women and girls. The MDGs emerged from an historic summit of world leaders to mark the new millennium nearly 15 years ago. Since then, countries that worked to boost girls’ education, women’s rights and comprehensive maternal, sexual and reproductive health c

Ebola: Woman Smashes Man’s Head For Hugging Her By Aronke Olayiwola   — Aug 19, 2014 A woman who was afraid of contracting the deadly Ebola virus yesterday smashed a beer bottle on a man’s head for hugging her in Ajah area of Lagos State. The woman identified as Bunmi was said to have been angry when her friend, Ademola Ojikutu, held her from behind without her consent. Her elder sister, Yemi, told LEADERSHIP that her sister was afraid of contracting Ebola and had since refused to shake anybody including her (Yemi). Yemi said she was discussing with her sister, Bunmi, at Ilaje area when Ojikutu held her from behind. Yemi said her sister was enraged and, out of anger, picked a bottle from a nearby beer parlour and smashed it on his head. She said blood gushed out from his head and people had to rush him to a nearby hospital in the area. She said she was not happy about what her sister did but the man was also wrong to hold her fro

Ebola: 3 Fresh Cases In Kaduna, Lagos; Officials Beef Up Capacity By GEORGE OKOJIE — Aug 19, 2014 Fresh facts emerged yesterday that three new suspected cases of the deadly ebola virus disease have been discovered in Kaduna and Lagos states. Four more patients who had been undergoing treatment for the disease at the Lagos treatment centre, were discharged after they had been certified free of the disease. Briefing journalists at the Infectious Disease Hospital located in Yaba area of Lagos, the Lagos State commissioner for health, Dr Jide Idris, said   they have 12 confirmed cases which included the index and all the other cases that had tested positive. The commissioner said, “As at yesterday, we have three new suspected cases. And one of them is a blood sample from Kaduna State while the two others are from Lagos, and they are primary contact. One reason for this was that they do not have the laboratory to test for the virus. “

From the Leadership FG Offers Cash Incentive To Pregnant Women Mike Ubani — Aug 19, 2014 The executive director and chief executive officer, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Ado J. G. Muhammad, has appealed to pregnant women in Enugu State to take advantage of the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme, which is an aspect of the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), to register and deliver their babies at designated health centres in the state. In an address read on his behalf by Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Nwosu, South-East zonal coordinator, (NPHCDA), during the inaugural meeting of the Enugu State CCT Steering Committee, Dr. Muhammad said the maternal and child health component of SURE-P, would contribute to the reduction of maternal and child morbidity and mortality in the country, as

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