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Chew bitter kola. Drink bleach. Bathe in salt water. Drink salt water. Get nano silver the “magic Ebola drug.” These are just some examples of the kinds of misinformation and fake news that were flying around during Nigeria’s Ebola outbreak. And they were all harmful. Let’s look at the example of drinking salt water. There […]
Today we attended the opening of the rehabilitated Ikola Primary Health Centre (PHC) by Japanese Ambassador Yutaka Kikuta. The Japanese Embassy collaborated with the local Street2School Initiative on this project. Before this health centre was rehabilitated, more than 250,000 people in the community had no access to healthcare services. Street2School Initiative’s Founder Ms. Tosin Taiwo […]
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 […]
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