Members of National Association of Resident Doctor, NARD have threatened to embark on indefinite strike from August 18, 2017 if the Federal Government fails to address their subsisting demands. The aggrieved doctors made their position known in a Communiqué issued at the end of the National Executive Council meeting held in Calabar.
In recent years scientists studying genital microbiomes have focused on the possible connection between HIV incidence in men and the penile microbiome, the community of microorganisms living on the penis.
A number of studies have investigated how circumcision affects HIV incidence in men, but few have focused on the penile microbiome.
Medecins Sans Frontieres says the tide may have turned in the global fight against AIDS, but too many people in sub-Saharan Africa are developing and dying of AIDS-related diseases due to limited testing and problems with treatment. UN says more than half of people infected with HIV worldwide are now getting drugs and AIDS-related deaths have almost halved since 2005, putting the world on track to hit the target of 30 million people on treatment by 2020.
Dr Karine Lacombe, an associate professor at Saint-Antrine Hospital, Inserm, France, says the new treatment for Hepatitis C is effective in Africa from results of preliminary clinical trials in the region.
A UN report revealed on Thursday that AIDS claimed a million lives in 2016, almost half the 2005 toll which marked the peak of the deadly epidemic.
On Thursday, the Minister of Health Dr. Isaac Adewole officially added Amoxicillin and Zinc to the list of drugs on the Essential Medicines List (EML). The two drugs are currently used in the treatment of childhood diseases. According to the revised EML made available to Vigil360, the Amoxicillin dispersible tablets will be used for the treatment of Pneumonia while Zinc Lowosmolarity Oral Rehydration will be used for the treatment of diarrhoea.
