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Abortion in Africa: The Case for Legal and Safe Access
Abortion remains one of the most controversial social, legal, religious and public-health issues in Africa. Different African societies have different cultural and religious beliefs concerning pregnancy and the ...
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"Don't think too much, it will make your blood pressure rise."
If you're Nigerian, you've heard this at least once. Maybe from your mother, aunty or maybe from that uncle who diagnoses everybody in the family. It's practically a part of our culture. When someone frowns for too long ...
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When Self Care Becomes Self Sabotage
Everywhere you turn these days, someone is preaching self care. Rest. Protect your peace. Prioritize yourself. Say no. Put yourself first. And honestly, it's a message a lot of us needed. We come from a culture that ...
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The Burden Of Sickle Cell Disease in Africa and New Gene Therapies: Hope Beyond Pain
Sickle Cell Disease isn’t just a diagnosis in Africa. It’s the child who misses WAEC because of a pain crisis. It’s the parent selling their car to pay for blood. It’s the 3am hospital runs. Every year, over 300,000 ...
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HPV & Cervical Cancer in Africa: Why is Vaccination Still Low?
When I first heard “HPV vaccine” in SS2, I thought it was just another injection they give girls in secondary school. Honestly, I didn’t think much of it. Then recently, while I was interning at a private hospital, we ...
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Antibiotic Resistance in Nigeria: The Silent Pandemic Stealing From Us
She was 7 years old. It was "just typhoid." The first antibiotics did not work. The second ones did not work either. By the third week, her parents had sold what they could, borrowed money, and ...
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Bed rock of life science
This is exactly true, biochemistry itself is a rock capable of standing on its own to a point of self innovation and self employment. Infact it stretches across all branches of life science making contributing to it's ...
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“Can You Pay?” — When Healthcare Becomes a Business in Nigeria
Imagne being sick in Nigeria today, and instead of being asked, “How do you feel?”, you are first asked, “Can you pay?”That single question alone reveals the reality of the healthcare system in Nigeria.Healthcare is ...
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Gender Equality in Africa: Progress Made and the Road Ahead
Gender Equality in Africa: Progress Made and the Road AheadIntroductionGender equality is no longer simply a matter of fairness; it is a prerequisite for Africa's sustainable development. Across the continent, women and ...
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Heavy is the one that wears the crown
I want to do law, I want to do law.That is the chants we hear from some law students not all. I was never one that said the chants I want to do law. I wanted to be a medical doctor and a proud one. I wanted to also do ...
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