Health

Health

Pain around my heart

I experience chest pain around my heart which also sometimes reaches up to my arm and with laboured breathing. My family doctor told me it is called A

‘58,000 deaths from pregnancy unacceptable’ – Group

A civil society group has reiterated that it is unacceptable that about 58,000 women die yearly from maternal/child mortality-related issues. The grou

Four children a family policy due for shakeup

The Association for Reproductive and Family Health (ARFH) recommends an existing four-children-a-family population policy be revisited to make it more

Carter hits record 500m doses for neglected tropical diseases

Jude Musa, 13, made record, taking the 500 millionth treatment for a neglected tropical disease (NTD) 20 years after the Carter Centre started its int

$81m US project identifies 79,000 HIV-positive Nigerians for treatment

An $81 million project funded by the US government since 2009 has ended after helping to push HIV/AIDs and tuberculosis services to more than 200,000