Sexual and Reproductive Health with Isaac Eranga

  Engaging Women In Reproductive Health Advocacy By ERANGA ISAAC-08059233001     The role of women in Maternal Newborn and Child Health Advocacy and Services cannot be over-emphasized. Below are six steps suggested by Alice Welbourn, Founding Director of Salamander Trust. 1 - The first suggested step is that we keep things simple. We all have really complex lives and simplicity is always welcome! Here are some examples of how to keep things simple. Firstly, language. As I have explained elsewhere, we know now from recent scientific research that use of positive language actually makes us feel good because of increased oxytocin and serotonin levels in our bodies. It also enables us to

October 9 2014 Africa Health, Human & Social Development Information Service (Afri-Dev.Info) Media / Public Statement on: Africa's Governance Preparedness for - New Global Post 2015 Sustainable Development Goals; Implementation of ICPD Beyond 2014 Review; & The Evolving AU Africa 2063 Development Agenda - Coming up at the January 2015 Summit. In the Aftermath of the recent UN General Assembly Debates on Sustainable Development - Afri-Dev Publishes 3 Innovative Governance Scorecards on: Population, Health, Gender, Governance & Development : (Focusing on - Reproductive & Sexual Health; Total Fertility Rates; Underage/Child 'Marriage'; Maternal & Child Health; HIV, Malaria & Immunization)  Governance Capacity & Outreach : (Focusing on - Adult Literacy; Civil Registration & Vital Statistics; Households With Television; Access to Electricity; & Local Government). Governance Services & Disease Prevention : (Focusing on

 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

A call to rethink the aid effectiveness debate By Anna Patricia Valerio 29 August 2014 Food aid distribution in Pakistan, where 12.5 million people were in need of humanitarian assistance following heavy floods in August 2010. Does aid work? A new working paper suggests that the aid effectiveness debate could benefit from asking slightly different questions. Photo by: Rob Holden / Department for International Development  / CC BY-NC-ND The debate surrounding foreign aid effectiveness is often framed around whether or not aid works, but that, according to a new working paper  on the issue released this week, may just be the tip of the iceberg. Nancy Qian, associate professor of economics at Yale University and author of the paper, which will be published  in the Annual Review of Economics next year, suggests that the often polarizing discussion on aid effectiveness could very well benefit from asking slightly different questions. Qian starts out by laying out some figu

Magnetic Bacteria Could Help Destroy Tumors and Fight Cancer By Samantha Olson / August 18, 2014 1:54 PM EDT Gold nanoparticles. David McCarthy/Science Source Surgery. Radiotherapy. Chemotherapy. Those are the cancer treatments most of us are familiar with, and in many cases, even all three combined are not enough to provide a complete cure. But a new and innovative approach may enable oncologists to add another option to the list. An artificial magnetic bacterium was recently created in a Spanish laboratory that, when ingested, can work as a magnetically charged compass that targets tumors and destroys them by spinning so fast the tumors heat up and melt. It’s based on an experimental treatment methodology called “magnetic hyperthermia” that exposes tumors filled with magnetic nanoparticles to a