Where a patient lacks the capacity to consent, the doctor’s decision overrides that of the patient because it is in the patient’s best interest. Conversely, where...
The people of Dokan Rago have been patient and have followed proper channels in seeking help, but their appeals have been ignored for too long. Without...
Assuming the claims are substantiated, this will serve as a damning indictment of how quickly public protections can be undermined when law is regarded merely as...
The good news is that Nigeria already possesses many of the ingredients required for success — market size, human talent, entrepreneurial capacity and growing industrial interest....
We invest emotionally and financially in treatment after illness emerges, yet spend comparatively little on preventing disease in the first place. Preventive healthcare lacks dramatic headlines....
The world shows us where its moral priorities lie by the timing of its urgencies. The suffering in the Congo is bearable to global power, until...
No continent can sustainably outsource its public health security. Africa must begin to treat healthcare investment as seriously as national security because epidemics can destabilise economies...
What is happening now goes beyond one organization. It's a fight between whether global health will be kept as a common legal-moral responsibility or descend into...
FAAN and health agencies have strengthened surveillance at airports to prevent the spread of Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria.
Global health solidarity means nothing unless it is measurable in timeliness, flexibility and adequacy of emergency financing. Not slogans. Not commemorative speeches. Not annual expressions of...