Contrary to expectations, researchers found that overall contraceptive use increased in most settings.
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Nigeria needs a multisectoral approach to break its annual cholera epidemic.
To solve a problem like COVID-19, it is obviously essential to have accurate information about the true status of the situation.
The first step of any public health response must be prevention. Preventing new infections and containing the pandemic protects health systems from getting close to collapse.
The average Nigerian woman or child faces a host of hindrances in accessing health services.
Finding a way to increase the participation of men and fathers in unpaid care work would have an important influence on a more equal distribution between women and men.
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Is it possible for COVID-19 to help us shape a better world?
South Africa is quite capable of delivering world-class healthcare to all its citizens. But this is constantly being hampered by an increasingly unconducive environment.
Students with disability continue to face dire exclusion in education and there is an urgent need to provide inclusive education for them.
Uganda needs to activate the community engagement pillar and resource the new strategy that’s in place.
Patients shouldn’t be treated better simply because they can afford to pay more.
The presence of multi drug-resistant bacteria in goats and sheep in southwest Nigeria may be due to regular use of antibiotics and unhygienic practices by farmers.
In addition to transport, Nigeria needs to pay more attention to logistics and supply chain management.
Vaccine manufacturing doesn’t come cheap. It depends heavily on support from developed countries. It also requires much more than relaxing intellectual property rights and a desire for vaccine equity.
Barriers to independent national decision making in farming need to be challenged if agricultural sustainability is to be developed.
If universities produce graduates who can work effectively in a team, the healthcare system will be strengthened and this would improve the health outcomes for patients.
An effective regional approach to combating COVID-19 has seen Africa avoid the worst so far.
There is an urgent need for legislation dealing specifically with electronic waste in Nigeria.
South Africa has clearly suffered the consequences of poor strategic decisions to this point. It doesn’t need to continue along these lines.
Lockdowns to curb the spread of COVID-19 had various effects on food as it went from farms to plates.
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