Health

If you are looking for valuable hands-on medical experience, this internship is a great opportunity. There are many health issues to be explored and there is an obvious lack of manpower and resources in the local hospitals located in the major cities where we operate.

As a medical intern, you will study these rural health posts and community clinics. Participants spend the majority of their internship learning as an assistant to an already-existing doctor / healthcare professional. Work responsibilities vary with your education, skills, and previous experience.

Unsafe abortion remains the unresolved “thorn in the flesh” of those addressing the high levels of maternal morbidity and mortality prevalent in Africa.

As Kenya embarks on the process of implementing the new constitution which was promulgated on 27 August 2010, it is appropriate to reflect on what this means from the point of view of the health sector. Will entrenchment of right to health care in the constitution quickly translate into universal access to health care for Kenyans?

Going through pregnancy and childbirth safely should be the expectation of every woman. However, high levels of maternal deaths continue to plague many sub-Saharan African countries, where achievement of Millennium Development Goal 5 threatens to be an elusion. Yet, even though complications of pregnancy cannot always be prevented, deaths resulting from them can be averted if women received timely and appropriate skilled health care throughout the continuum of pregnancy and childbirth. This is possible with application of available knowledge of interventions that are effective in preventing death from complications of pregnancy and childbirth.

What is lacking, as argued in an essay entitled What’s in the way of achieving improved maternal health in Kenya?, is the commitment, at all levels, to act; to make the reduction of maternal mortality a high priority.

What’s your view?

UNMET NEED OF ADOLESCENT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (ASRH) IN EDO STATE:

A CALL TO POLICY-MAKERS FOR IMMEDIATE INTERVENTIONS

A SNAP-SHOT OF ASRH SITUATION IN EDO STATE

Edo State, one of the 36 states of the Nigerian federation, is home to about three million people with an estimated statistics of about 33% of adolescents and young adults aged 10 – 24 years and male/female ratio of nearly 1:1 (National Population Census, 2006).

UNMET NEED OF ADOLESCENT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (ASRH) IN EDO STATE: A CALL TO THE MEDIA FOR IMMEDIATE INTERVENTIONS
A SNAP-SHOT OF ASRH SITUATION IN EDO STATE
Edo State, one of the 36 states of the Nigerian federation, is home to about three million people with an estimated statistics of about 33% of adolescents and young adults aged 10 – 24 years and male/female ratio of nearly 1:1 (National Population Census, 2006). Although mainly rural and one of the poorest and least industrialized areas in Nigeria, the states has one of the highest levels of literacy in the country.

UNMET NEED OF ADOLESCENT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (ASRH) IN EDO STATE: A CALL TO LEGISLATORS FOR AN URGENT ACTION
A SNAP-SHOT OF ASRH SITUATION IN EDO STATE
Edo State, one of the 36 states of the Nigerian federation, is home to about three million people with an estimated statistics of about 33% of adolescents and young adults aged 10 – 24 years and male/female ratio of nearly 1:1 (National Population Census, 2006). Although mainly rural and one of the poorest and least industrialized areas in Nigeria, the state has one of the highest levels of literacy in the country.

UNMET NEED OF ADOLESCENT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH (ASRH) IN EDO STATE: A CALL TO COMMUNITY LEADERS FOR IMMEDIATE RESPONSE
A SNAP-SHOT OF ASRH SITUATION IN EDO STATE
Edo State, one of the 36 states of the Nigerian federation, is home to about three million people with an estimated statistics of about 33% of adolescents and young adults aged 10 – 24 years and male/female ratio of nearly 1:1 (National Population Census, 2006). Although mainly rural and one of the poorest and least industrialized areas in Nigeria, the states has one of the highest levels of literacy in the country.

The NILE African Development organisation (NAD) wishes to invite everone to tell their stories about Africa of which we shall be able to air some of them in our Radio program Africa Matters.

"Fantsuam Foundation is laying on a local event to mark the day. It will raise awareness, provide free screening for 500 children under 5 years of age, and distribute folic acid and multi-vitamins. This is the first time ever for people around Kafanchan to receive free screening for sickle cell disease. Fantsuam Foundation has recruited and is training 50 volunteers to help on the day. They can screen 500, but expect up to 1000 to come forward, so there will be major crowd control challenges. Pin pricks on heels will be used to collect blood for lab analysis.