Chioma Umeha

How to stop snoring naturally By: Chioma Umeha S noring happens when you breathe through the mouth during sleeping, thereby producing that awfully embarrassing loud noise. Snoring has been medically researched to lead to eventual health issues. There are a lot of so called remedies and quick fix pills and medicines and contraptions that are out in the market these days. Some have attempted stop snoring through surgery. But it is often good advice to resort to natural methods first. Most of these natural methods are not only effective, but also possess several advantages like having no side effects. It is also a more permanent cure without breaking the bank. Sleep on your side. This allows you to breathe through your nose and not through your mouth. This opens up your nasal passages as opposed to sleeping on your back which pushes air to be breathed out through your mouth; thus making you snore. Exercises. Do exercises that help to stop snoring naturally

UN’s new action plan to save 1m African children yearly By: Chioma Umeha T he World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has launched a new Action Plan to eliminate two of the main killer diseases of children in Africa – pneumonia and diarrhoea. This is in line with the United Nations (UN) provision which states that universal access to water, sanitation and hygiene in Africa, besides availability of vaccines and treatments, is critical in ending preventable child deaths.  A joint statement on Thursday, signed by WaterAid, noted that ending preventable pneumonia and diarrhoea deaths would save the lives of over one million children in Africa every year. “Today, UNICEF and the WHO have launched a new action plan tackling for the first time two of the three biggest killer diseases of children under five in Africa – pneumonia and diarrhea,” the statement said. It added; “the plan aims to end preventable deaths of children in Afric

By: Chioma Umeha E XPERTS have raised alarm over Nigeria's failure to attain 50 per cent target in Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV last year.  According to them, the trend contradicts the county's much celebrated success of reducing infection to 4.1 per cent.  Nigeria  reduced infection from 4.6 per cent in 2008 to 4.1 per cent in 2013, but the country still shares  32 per cent of global burden of children infection.  According to recent reports, reduction in children infection was less than 25 per cent between 2011 and 2012.  There are fears that this development may also frustrate efforts to reduce HIV incidence among  girls and women between 15 and 49 years by 2015 by at least 50 per cent. Experts have therefore called for urgent steps to be taken  in scaling down the rising incidence of  children infection through PMTCT.  This call is coming on the heels of recent report which quoted Dr. Rajiv Shah, the Administrator of United States Ag

Things you need to know about Ebola epidemic By: Chioma Umeha T he World Health Organization reports more than 2,106 have the disease and at least 1,848 people have died. As a deadly Ebola epidemic spreads across western Africa, world leaders are scrambling to find solutions. Here's what you need to know about the disease and the havoc it is wreaking: The Ebola epidemic has been growing in western Africa since last year. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports the disease in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. WHO began reporting on the epidemic in March, and initial estimates indicated the outbreak began in early this year. However, subsequent investigation traced the likely origins of the epidemic back even further, to a 2-year-old child who died in Guinea on December 2013. Investigators believe a health care worker then became infected and carried the disease to other parts of the country. By late March, 49 people had been diagnosed, 29 of whom died