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Chioma Umeha The International AIDS Society (IAS) has announced that Mexico City, Mexico, will host the 10th IAS Conference on HIV Science, 2019. IAS 2019 will take place at the Centro Citibanamex on 21-24 July 2019. Held every two years, the IAS Conference on HIV Science is a unique forum for scientists, clinicians, public health experts and community leaders to examine the latest research developments in HIV science and explore how to realistically apply and implement that knowledge to address the epidemic. IAS 2019 is expected to gather more than 6,000 participants. This is the second time that the IAS has convened a conference in Mexico City; it also hosted the 17th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2008) there. “We are excited to bring IAS 2019 to Mexico City,” Anton Pozniak, IAS President-Elect and IAS 2019 International Chair, said. “It was at AIDS 2008 in Mexico that the potential impact of ART on reducing HIV transmission was first being talked abo

Chioma Umeha The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has pledged to strengthen its activities and collaborations with relevant stakeholders, including the National Assembly and the media to tackle the challenges of drug abuse in the country. Pharm. Ahmed Yakasai, President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) made the commitment at the sensitisation programme on drug abuse and misuse, organised by the Pharmaceutical Association of Nigerian Students (PANS), of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Kaduna, weekend. Yakasai who was the special guest of honour, said there was need for multi-sector collaboration among organisations, institutions, groups, even individuals and government to provide practical and lasting solution to the societal ill. The PSN boss said; “All hands must be on deck to find practical and lasting solution to this societal menace. Over 3 decades ago, I was deeply involved in drug abuse campaign across the country as Director an

Chioma Umeha A 2015 Mandela Washington Fellow, Mr. Kunle Adewale, early last week, inaugurated an Art in Medicine Fellowship for public health practitioners and professional artists in Lagos. Eighty-five medical professionals including doctors, nurses, and trained caregivers as well as 15 visual artists were inducted into the yearlong fellowship. The 100 inductees will hold a series of creative art engagements such as painting, drawing and collaging for children and young adults living with sickle cell anaemia, cancer, and mental health conditions. The sessions will be held for patients in selected hospitals and healthcare centers in Lagos, including the National Sickle Cell Centre, Idi Araba; Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH); and Federal Neuro Psychiatric Hospital, Yaba. Arts in Medicine project seeks to incorporate the arts into healthcare delivery, with a view to enhancing holistic patient care. The project is funded through a public diplomacy

Some albinos at the exhibition tagged: Angels Amongst Men, organised recently in Lagos by OAM Foundation and Damilola Onafuwa recently in Lagos ...Launches Angels Amongst Men Chioma Umeha To debunk the myths and misconce p t i o n s associated with albinism in Africa, especially Nigeria, Onome Akinlolu Majaro (OAM) Foundation in collaboration with Damilola Onafuwa last week held a photography exhibition tagged ”Angels amongst Men.’ With an estimated figure of over two million people, the rate of albinism in Nigeria is ranked among the highest in the world. This makes them one of the largest vulnerable groups in the country today, says OAM Foundation. With his latest series, Angels Amongst Men, documentary photographer, Onafuwa – whose work is typically centred around social issues and other human interest stories – is exploring the lives of Nigerians with albinism. The series seeks to demystify albinism, featured the special character of the pale sk

•Task Media To Propagate Accurate Information Chioma Umeha There is increasing concern about how to reverse the current low Contraceptive Prevalence rate (CPR) and curb growing maternal deaths in the country. Every day, 111 women die from pregnancy related issues can be blamed on five major causes of maternal mortality, viz: haemorrhage, hypertension, infection, abortion complications and obstructed labour. Fortunately, experts have confirmed that investment in family planning (FP) would reduce the rate of maternal deaths by 30 per cent. Already, the Federal government has intensified campaigns to increase uptake of family planning commodities and services with the formulation of the new policy to increase the CPR from 15 per cent to 27 per cent by 2030. In Lagos state, the goal is increase CPR to 74 per cent by 2020. However, some traditions, misconceptions among other factors have continued militate against adequate Family Planning uptake, especia

•Give Notice Of Fresh Strike Chioma Umeha Health workers have threatened to commence on   industrial action over failure of the Federal Government’s to honour an agreement it made with it by approving the adjustment of CONHESS scale as was done to medical doctors’ CONMESS since January 2014 and replicated in September 2017. The health workers who came under the auspices of Joint Health Sector Unions and Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations (JOHESU/AHPA) said that the delay in implementation by the Federal Government was not causing crisis in the health sector. This warning was contained in a communiqué JOHESU/AHPA issued at the end of its three-day consultative meeting held from February 6 to 8, 2018 in Abuja, just as the group noted it has communicated its discontentment on the issue to the appropriate government quarters. In the communiqué signed by Comrade Biobelemoye Joy Josiah and Comrade Ekpebor Florence, JOHESU’s National Chairman and

L-R Ravi Akelia,Director, Technology Solutions, AMESA, IQVIA in Technology ; Remi Adeseun, Country Manager, West Africa, IQVIA in General; Pharm Ahmed Yakassai; President, Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria; Prof. Mike Ogirima, President, Nigeria Medical Association;Prince Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi, President, Nigerian Academy of Pharmacy, and Dr. Femi Olugbile, Chairman, IQVIA HCPSpace Advisory Board, during the MOU Signing Ceremony at the official launch of the IQVIA HCPSpace in Lagos, recently.   Chioma Umeha Healthcare professionals in the country have been urged to leverage communication and networking in to improve the networth of health service given to the patients. The appeal came from Prince Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi, Chairman of the occasion and President, Nigerian Academy of Pharmacy, who encouraged professionals to become early adopters in the use of digital health platforms that will positively improve patient outcomes. Adelusi-Adeluyi made the app