Health Reporters

By Asmau Ahmad Staff writer and a microbiologist (asmeee@yahoo.com) Treponema pallidum a spirochete bacterium which looks like a spiral worm is nicknamed “the Great Imitator” because the clinical manifestations of late-stage are changeable and many of which look like symptoms ...

From Monday 23rd to Friday 27th May 2016 the 69th World Health Assembly in Geneva was charged with many exciting technical sessions, plenary meetings and side events all geared towards charting new and innovative ways of improving health and general ...

By Momodu L. Kargbo Crises of all sorts, from conflicts to natural disasters to health emergencies, are happening at unprecedented rates around the world – so much so, that the United Nations is convening the first ever World Humanitarian Summit ...

It was a good feeling for most of us advocating for better and more spending in health sector to note that when Senator Udoma Udo Udoma the Hon. Minister, Budget & National Planning was highlighting major projects in 2016 Budget ...

Exactly 10:04pm West African Time (WAT) on Tuesday 3rd May 2016 I got a shared email containing the summary note of the meeting with African Civil Society Organizations with the World Bank Vice President for Africa  Makhtar Diop that took ...

Written by Dr Mahmud Abdulwahab mahmudathadeja@yahoo.com That the Nigeria’s health care delivery system is bedeviled with endless and arguably needless strikes by all categories of health care workers is no news. The news is when will the strikes end? The ...

Even though I wasn’t physically at the Global Fund 35th Board Meeting that was held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire from 26 to 27 April 2016, I was following its happenings as events were unfolding. Although the financial scandals as contained ...

I was having an informal chat with 2 Africans at the venue of the reception organized for civil society organizations (CSOs) inside the World Bank Headquarters in Washington DC when I told them I would be attending the evening meeting ...

The title of my article was the topic of the session that I humbly moderated on Friday 15th April 2016 during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meeting in Washington DC. The session was also used to mark the international launching of ...

I reached out for a brief chat with the Nigeria’s Health Minister Professor Issac Adewole and the Executive Director of National Primary Health Care Development Agency Dr Ado J Muhammad on matters related to the 2016 Health Budget. It was ...