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Advocatehealth!: September 2009
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Ensuring equitable, sustainable health systems for all. Tuesday, September 08, 2009. Prostitution: social or spiritual problem? I granted an interview to a Nigerian daily newspaper (The Punch of Friday, July 24, 2009; page 8). The following is a critique of the interview by one Osondu Anyalechi in another tabloid (The Sun of Saturday, August 15, 2009). I find the contradictions in Osondu’s article interesting. Please read. Re: Prostitution is not a spiritual problem. Saturday, August 15, 2009. The proble...
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Advocatehealth!: March 2008
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Ensuring equitable, sustainable health systems for all. Friday, March 07, 2008. Resolutions of the 51st National Coucil on Health Meeting: Further Responses. Evaluation of Niprisan (Herbal Medicine) for the Management of Sickle Cell. Charles Wambebe and Hadiza Khamofu, International Biomedical Research in Africa, Abuja, Nigeria, wambebe@yahoo.com, Joseph Okogun, Nathan Nasipuri and Karynius Gamaniel, National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research and Development, Abuja, Nigeria. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Advocatehealth!: March 2007
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Ensuring equitable, sustainable health systems for all. Monday, March 26, 2007. In the Spirit of the Doha Declaration. It is half a decade since the Doha Declaration. The declaration states that developing countries must use public health safeguards written into the World Trade Organization’s intellectual properties rules to access less expensive, generic versions of patented medicines. The generic costs about $2,700 yearly per patient while Glivec costs $27,000 for the same time period. 1 Wealthy countr...
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Advocatehealth!: July 2006
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Ensuring equitable, sustainable health systems for all. Saturday, July 29, 2006. Differential Access to Antiretroviral Drugs in the Third World: PEPFAR as a Mitigating Agent. Most of the people living with HIV/AIDS live in the developing world. And we have seen results. The patients directly benefit. Their follow-up indices gladden our hearts. We still have a long way to go. The uptake of antiretroviral drugs in the third world is still unacceptably low considering the burden of the disease. I have just ...
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Advocatehealth!: September 2007
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Ensuring equitable, sustainable health systems for all. Tuesday, September 18, 2007. Where AIDS Efforts Lag. Shortages of Health Workers Undermine Advances. By Lola Dare, Jim Yong Kim and Paul Farmer. President Bush made a historic pledge in his 2003 State of the Union address: to get urgently needed AIDS. Treatment to 2 million people living with HIV in impoverished countries by 2008. Congress concurred and. As close as possible to universal access to HIV treatment by 2010. Purchaser of generic drugs.
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Advocatehealth!: February 2007
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Ensuring equitable, sustainable health systems for all. Thursday, February 22, 2007. Few legal practitioners there are who render services for free. And we cannot castigate those who charge fees: it is just the way things go; commerce, among others, drives society. Certain individuals, however, have gone above the norm, above our basic human egocentric tendencies. Such individuals extol our communality. Such persons, like Ron Brittan, possess large hearts. Most of our leads come from Rotary and Rotaract ...
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Advocatehealth!: November 2006
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Ensuring equitable, sustainable health systems for all. Monday, November 27, 2006. Tracking Intervention Coverage for Child Survival. You will find below the word format of a powerpoint presentation of a review article I presented at the department of Family Medicine, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria, recently. It borders on the progress the developing world has made so far towards achieving the MDGs. Please read. Funding for the research provided by these institutions. MDG especially in re...
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Advocatehealth!: November 2007
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Ensuring equitable, sustainable health systems for all. Thursday, November 08, 2007. Healthcare Financing in the Developing World: Is Nigeria’s Health Insurance Scheme A Viable Option? The NHIS decree statutorily allows each insured person to decide which health centre he wishes to register with. A monthly capitation is paid to the health centre from the pooled funds. Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) are empowered to coordinate the activities of the health centers as they dispense healthca...Befor...
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Advocatehealth!: January 2007
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Ensuring equitable, sustainable health systems for all. Friday, January 26, 2007. 300million Lifeline for Primary Healthcare Development in Nigeria? Wednesday, January 17, 2007. Light has come to Arusha! Thank you, Gillian, for your comment on my last post and for urging me to keep on writing. Your post has given me a renewed impetus to stay the course. It is worth visiting www.schoolstjude.blogspot.com. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. View my complete profile. A Path Throu...