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NGO set to empower school girls with free sanitary pads/ hygiene products to celebrate Menstrual Hygiene Day 2018 HEAL FOR AFRICA INITIATIVE​ will officially launch the PATH project to commemorate the Menstrual Hygiene Day (MHD2018) on the ​28th of May 2018​ at Al Ansar Secondary School, New Layout, Lokoja, Kogi State. The MHD is a day set aside globally to educate young girls and ladies in particular and the general public about Menstrual Hygiene as well as break the stigma and clarify myths and misconceptions around Menstruation. ​The event will also feature a health talk on Menstrual Hygiene, a practical session on how to make Reusable Sanitary Pads with locally available materials and distribution of free sanitary pads/ personal hygiene products to participants. PATH became a child of necessity for HEAL FOR AFRICA INITIATIVE because we have identified that in this part of the world, menstruation is perceived as a filthy, shameful or a negative process that shoul...

With about 500,000 Nigerian women living with obstetric fistula, women need to avail themselves with regular medical check up to prevent health complications, including fistula, that could lead to death of mothers.  As Nigeria commemorates the World Fistula day today there is a need for collective action to get appropriate treatment to avoid the needless debilitating conditions and death that could result from pregnancy and childbirth complications in the country. Akin Jimoh, Programme Director, Development Communications Network asserted that “we need to end obstetric fistula in Nigeria by addressing all factors, from poverty to early childbearing, that predisposes women, especially the girl-child to this debilitating condition.” Most fistulas are as a result of difficult childbirth and obstructed labour lasting more than 24 hours.  Nigeria records no fewer than 12,000 new cases of fistula annually as a result of complications in childbirth. Obstetric Fistula i...

                                                                                 by OLASUPO Abideen Opeyemi May 15, 2018 D ear Mr. President It is with a heavy heart that I sit down to write Your Eminence. As a conscious, patriotic and progressive youth, I could not help but register my dissatisfaction with my country’s plight alongside a volley of plea to your administration to rescue this dire situation. Excuse the curtness of my manners. The intensity of my pain has almost robbed me entirely of formality. My passionate plea is not for a personal gain but for a revision of government’s position on issues of health, poverty and education, the individual components forming the fulcrum around which our collective development and glory as a nation revolve. Sir, I read ...

Something happened recently that got me to start thinking of how much carbohydrate i consume daily. In the morning a typical person like me takes bread, afternoon because you are at work and rice seems the most available option, then you eat rice again and in the evening you get home tired and you just want a fast food and so you make eba, rice again or spaghetti. The next day the cycle begins again. Carbohydrate end result is sugar, and steadily your sugar intake starts to rise. when you are presented an array of food, choose the one with low calories and low sugar- Healthcommunicators Let's not even start talking about how one is quick to get that bottle of soda in Lagos traffic and increase your sugar intake by another 39g. Choi!!!!  So i started doing my research on food low in sugar and i stumbled on the great post from healthcareng.com on 10 Nigerians food low in sugar. Oyah lemme copy here for my readers too. Fiber food: Example is Garden Egg, Carrots, cucumber,...

Chioma Obinna, member, Media Advocacy Working Group (MAWG); Olusegun Omotayo Adeboye, member, Lagos Advocacy Working Group (LAWG) and Public Health Sustainable Advocacy Initiative(PHSAI); Angela Tony Iji, Ag. GM Southern Operation; Dele Fanimo, Chief Operating Officer of Leadership Newspaper; Chioma Umeha, Chairman, MAWG; Remmy Nweke, member, MAWG, DigitalSENSE; Shotomiwa Olubunmi, member, LAWG and PHSAI during the recent advocacy visit of Family Planning Media Advocacy Working Group (FPMAWG) to Leadership Lagos Office.  Family Planning Media Advocacy Working Group (FPMAWG), was set up in January 2018, by Pathfinder International as a media advocacy group to promote a balanced family life as part of efforts towards advancing nation building visited the Leadership Head Office and met with the The group objectives center on increasing the visibility of FP stories which in turns will galvanize support for the promotion of quality family life, which is why the group...

The first time I  heard about One Campaign was on BBNAIJA 2017, my interest increased and i was curious to know about what the campaign is about so i google. On checking the site i read about so many works the ONE Campaign is doing especially through their ONE Champions in Nigeria in tackling extreme poverty. I applied this year to join the campaign and was selected after passing through a strategic selection process by ONE.org. So fast forward to the 3- Day training program that took place in Newton Park Hotel Abuja where I met 49 other Champions that has been doing great work in the developmental Sectors in Nigeria. Who said Nigerian Youths are Lazy again? I got a better understanding on the strategies ONE.ORG uses to tackle and eradicate extreme poverty in Nigeria doing and these includes; #MAKENAIJASTRONGER: Millions of Nigerians are dying from preventable diseases due to low investment and corruption in the health sector. So #MakeNaijastronger seeks to strengthen...