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Gender Equality: Culture and the people

Experience from reviews on Attitude and Practices as a result of exposure to Gender Equality interventions

Gender Equality to empower women and girls towards improving economic situation and achieving the goal of poverty eradication has stemmed up a number of innovative interventions to drive this aim.

Unlike many development projects and targets, this looks at behavioral change, addressing social norms that lead to certain attitudes and practices.

Interventions to create awareness and impact knowledge have been leveraged on to address gender issues in society; radio and television programs and jingles, seminars and workshops, capacity building in different institution and policy reviews.

Female Health, Nutrition and Performance Lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine

Discussing Female Health at the Royal Society of Medicine, London

The Royal Society of Medicine, a provider of postgraduate Medical education, promoting an exchange of information and ideas on the science, practice and organisation of medicine is hosting a lecture on Female health, nutrition and performance in London 11th May 2017. Please see link for full details on participation https://www.rsm.ac.uk/events/events-listing/2016-2017/sections/food-health-forum/fhh03-female-health,-nutrition-and-performance.aspx

Light Up A Life: World Water Day

Big Brother Naija 2017 lending a Voice to Development Needs

It's #WorldWaterDay, a reminder for a call to action in tackling global water crisis ''1.8 billion people use a source of drinking water contaminated with faeces, putting them at risk of contracting cholera, dysentery, typhoid and polio''. 

This Call to Action aims to ensure access to ensure everyone has access to safe water by 2030, one of the target of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) with the ultimate goal of eradicating extreme poverty.

Call for Grant Proposals - John Paul Usman Award for Civic Leadership

The U.S. Embassy Abuja Public Affairs Section (PAS) announces a notice of funding opportunity for the John Paul Usman Award for Civic Leadership. Below are instructions and information about the program including: an outline for funding priorities, strategic foci, and the procedures for submitting requests for funding. Please read carefully.

'Africa my Africa' by David Diop #WorldPoetryDay

A beautiful Poem on 'Africa'

Africa, my Africa
Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs
Africa of whom my grandmother sings
On the banks of the distant river
I have never known you
But your blood flows in my veins
Your beautiful black blood that irrigates the fields

Global Health Policy and Health Systems Research opportunity

Global Health Policy and Health Systems Research opportunity with the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) 

NWO, a National research organisation in the Netherlands is offering opportunity for research in Global Health policy and health systems. 

See link for full details and application http://bit.ly/2nvhoAy

Opportunity: Call for Proposal on Study on Quality of Care for Tuberculosis Program

Request for Proposal for Study on Quality of Care for Tuberculosis Program

A call to submit proposal for study on Tuberculosis in 12 states in Nigeria.

International Day of Happiness; ''Norway is the Happiest place on earth'' BBC

The world's happiest - and saddest - countries
Happiest	Least happy
1. Norway	146. Yemen
2. Denmark	147. South Sudan
3. Iceland	148. Liberia
4. Switzerland	149. Guinea
5. Finland	150. Togo
6. Netherlands	151. Rwanda
7. Canada	152. Syria
8. New Zealand	153. Tanzania
9. Australia	154. Burundi
10. Sweden	155. Central African Republic

BBC Happiness report

What About #Gender Equality

For Long people have been looked upon based on how they look. Furthermore capacity and relevance have been attributed to the 'look'- man or woman, boy or girl. The Global charge to address this birthed the popular theme #Gender Equality.

Paying for Health

The topic 'paying for health' could be debated over and over, but the adverse effect of 'direct payments' popularly known as 'out of pocket' on the poor and poverty cannot be over-emphasized. Many developing countries see a large number of its population living in rural areas and in other cases hard to reach areas leaving a good number of population underserved with limited or no access to amenities including health.

photo credit: WHO

Preventing Seasonal Malaria in Children

In the fight to reduce mortality rates due to malaria, innovative approaches have been piloted and championed by donors and organisations, one of which is the Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention targeted at children.

''In many countries in the Sahel sub-region of Africa, malaria transmission is notably
seasonal, with most of the disease burden occurring during a distinct rainy season.  In
recent years, seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) has emerged as an
approach to  prevent malaria among children aged 3-59 months in areas where
malaria transmission is highly seasonal.  SMC involves the administration of monthly
treatment courses of a combination of antimalarial drugs with the objective of
maintaining therapeutic antimalarial drug concentrations in the blood throughout the
period of greatest risk.''

''Poverty and income inequality'' From WHO

In sub-Saharan Africa, both the incidence and depth of poverty are high compared to other areas of the world. Sub-Saharan Africa also lags behind other regions in respect of non-income measures of poverty. In addition to low levels of income, the poor have few assets and only limited access to government services. Poverty incorporates varying degrees of vulnerability, isolation, dependence and powerlessness, all of which negatively affect health status.

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Places

Chocolate Festival, Geneva

Having to feel the excitement from being in another place and space, sharing the joy, laughter and culture of a different people can be undescribable. It however feels great to just relax, enjoy the moments and learn from the surroundings. 

Limbe Beach, Cameroon

Community participation in health care. Community eye care research in South West Cameroon.

While conducting a research in community eye care in South West Cameroon, in June, 2012, it was interesting to find increasing willingness of community members to engage in health.

Although there is a huge debate on effectiveness of decentralisation in Primary Health Care especially on the issue of capacity for management at the grass root (rural or village levels), discussions with community members revealed willingness to take responsibility of their health with increased awareness.
For instance people who used eye care facilities were people who had knowledge of the care for the eyes. Indeed, they were mostly of higher economic status than most in the remote areas.