Did you know that tuberculosis is the world’s deadliest infectious disease? Yet,TB still remains a major public health problem Nigeria, especially as it mostly affects the poorest and most vulnerable people. In fact, Nigeria has the 2nd largest burden of TB in Africa and is among the 10 countries that accounted for 76% of missing TB cases globally […]
What do you think is the deadliest animal in the world? Answer choices are: a lion, a shark, a black mamba snake, or a mosquito? If you guessed the last answer choice, you are correct! Typically, when we think of deadly animals, we think of animals like lions, sharks, or snakes. But the mosquito is […]
If the Nigerian economy lost about 4 billion naira due to outbreaks in 2017 alone, how will we prevent additional losses as we continue to have more and more outbreaks? On the 6th of August, we gathered with other representatives from the private sector, the health sector, and civil society to discuss the Nigeria Centre […]
Ebola, Zika, and HIV: all 3 have been (or still are) present in Nigeria. So do Ebola survivors have immunity? Do we have the Zika virus in Nigeria? These were some of the questions raised during the University of Lagos Pro-Chancellor’s Distinguished Endowed Annual Lecture titled “Responding to Nigeria’s Disease Outbreaks and Epidemics: Ebola, Zika and […]
On Wednesday 4th of July, we participated in Merck’s inaugural Lagos eHealth Meetup. The goals of the meetup were to provide a platform for conversations around the challenges and solutions in scaling health innovations in West Africa and to serve as a meetup for startups and game-changers in the health sector. DRASA believes in using technology […]
“Rain rain, go away, come again another day, little children want to play,” Ronke and her friends chorused as they played under the rain. After about 30 minutes of a torrential downpour, causing the kids to rush back to their houses as the rain refused to listen to their plea, the rain eventually stopped. As […]