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Young (and occasionally less young) researchers, mostly from LMICs, present their views on global health issues.
Initially launched in October 2012 by the administration of former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, the Federal Ministry of Health (FMOH) in June 2016 under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari re-launched the Save One Million Lives (SOML) project. It was to focus on increasing the use of high impact reproductive, child health and ...
“Can I dispense Floxapen (antibiotic) for Flucazole (antifungi)…?” asked a roadside drug vendor. This, and many others, are some of the poor practices Cameroonians are exposed to on a daily basis. What an untimely coincidence, at a time when countries are aligning themselves towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) agenda and ...
Two weeks ago, Nigerian Twitter was in uproar over the death of a certain Ahmed Victor Idowu. He was a House Officer (i.e. a qualified doctor practising under supervision in hospital in the first couple of years after graduation) who died from Lassa Fever contracted in the line of duty. Lassa fever, for the uninitiated among us, is according to ...
I do. I like sci-fi too, and I’ll tell you why. It is because sci-fi – and zombie movies – are mirrors. They may show you people travelling in spaceships or chain-sawing the living dead, but the stories they tell are really about the era and the society in which they are/were made. They are in fact about us. This may seem obvious to some o...
Forty years after the well-intentioned Alma Ata Declaration (1978), ‘Health for All’ remains a distant goal. This is particularly so for populations living in vulnerable parts of the world – conflict areas, prone to natural disasters, or geographically remote and vulnerable areas such as the Sundarbans in India. How does one, in the era of...
Over the past few days, I’ve been fortunate to attend the first half of the 142nd session of WHO’s Executive Board meeting in Geneva, after a couple of preparatory civil society meetings hosted by the Geneva Global Health Hub (G2H2). The EB meeting provides a fresh start to the new (global health) year, and the hope is of course that for...
This year Dr Tedros will attend the Davos meeting, together with many other heads of state and leaders of international organizations, as well as civil society representatives and many other “leaders” in various sectors. While I understand this fits in his focus on a boosted WHO presence at international global policy fora, I personally thin...
It’s been a few months now, but it doesn’t really feel like that for me. In October 2017, I attended the inaugural conference of Women Leaders in Global Health, a movement launched in Stanford, California. It seeks to provide a global platform for women in the health professions to thrash out their career growth obstacles, and ways to overco...
The French President Emmanuel Macron had, as one might expect, a busy end of the year 2017, full of visits and meetings with other heads of States to tackle global problems (and he still had time for some celebration for his 40th birthday at the Chambord castle – or was it an early Christmas celebration?). On November 28th 2017 he was in Ouaga...