Malawi Tackles Infertility with Merck Foundation

Rebecca Ejifoma

CEO of Merck Foundation, Dr. Rasha Kelej and First Lady of Malawi, Prof. Gertrude Mutharila

Merck foundation has partnered the first lady of Malawi, Professor Gertrude Mutharika and others, to train Malawian doctors in the fields of cancer, diabetes and fertility care as efforts to improve access to equitable and quality healthcare in the country against infertility stigma.

Merck Foundation Partners Guinea to Launch First Merck Health Media Training

•••Calls for application from print, electronics and online media professionals with deadline
Rebecca Ejifoma

Dr. Rasha Kelej, CEO of Merck Foundation and President, Merck More Than a Mother with the First Lady of Guinea, Mrs. Djene Condé

Merck Foundation in partnership with First Lady of Guinea, Djene Conde, to build healthcare capacity in the fields of Oncology, break the stigma around fertility and diabetes care set to hold the first Merck Health Media Training in Conakry, Guinea.

Experts: People-Oriented Programmes Can Curb Population Explosion in Nigeria

Rebecca Ejifoma

With the country’s over-bloated population, experts have advised that the nation needed to strategically implement effective people-oriented programmes that would stem the tide of the negative impact of population explosion on her resources and stability.

Breasts’ Cancer Survivors: Regaining Lost Confidence with Silicon Breast Form, Mastectomy Bras in Nigeria

Silicon breast forms in different colours

With the arrival of silicon breast forms and post mastectomy bras in Nigeria, dashed hopes have been restored. Rebecca Ejifoma chronicles the sordid experience of a survivor, who had been yearning for silicon form bras since 1993 among others

Autism: Giving the Children a Voice through Art

Rebecca Ejifoma

Dotun Akande (in a white T-shirt), giving the children a voice at the
Art Workshop and exhibition at the Patrick Speech and Language Centre in Ikeja Lagos

Worried that some children living with autism do not use their speech, the Patrick Speech and Learning Centre has provided them skills in creative art and crafts to give them a voice for better communication in the society in line with World Autism Day 2019. 

Aliko Dangote Foundation, UNECA, GBCHealth Advocate PPP for Better Health in Africa

Lauretta Omosogha

Top African leaders including Heads of States, Ministers, CEOs as well as representatives from the African Union and United Nations will converge at the inaugural Africa Business: Health Forum billed to hold in Ethiopia on 12th February 2019 on the margins of the 32nd African Union Summit.

Vitafoam Takes Gifts to First three Babies of 2019

Lauretta Omosogha

A leading manufacturer of flexible, reconstituted and rigid foams, Vitafoam Nigeria Plc, has continued with its long tradition of donating gifts to the first three babies of the year and to the management of Lagos Island Maternity Hospital (LIMH) in Lagos state.