The first two cases of AIDS in Nigeria were discovered in 1985 and reported in Lagos in 1986, one of whom was a young female sex worker from a West African nation who was 13 years old. As AIDS was thought to be a sickness of American homosexuals, the announcement of this first AIDS case…
Human immunodeficiency virus is referred to as HIV. Removing crucial immune system defense cells jeopardizes a person’s defenses against illness and infection. There is currently no effective cure for HIV. But HIV can be managed with the right medical attention. Numerous factors, such as sex partners and risky behaviors, increase a person’s risk of contracting…
As the population of the United States gets older, and medical science makes it so as to have people live longer, healthcare will be the most important thing being discussed in the U.S. for years to come. Perhaps the biggest offshoot of general healthcare is home healthcare. Over the years, the desire for patients…
What will one get out of healthy living? Just a longer life expectancy, a stronger immunity system, lesser risks of life-threatening diseases-basically a sound mind and body. It is needless to say that choosing this way of life brings about a lot of life-changing benefits. Want to know how to lead a healthy lifestyle? Here…
Terminal wealth dispersion is the technical term that depicts the inconstancy representing the future value of investment portfolios. This inevitable variability means that no one knows the worth of their investment portfolio when they reach retirement age or at any time during their retirement. Therefore, the uncertainty of an individual’s life expectancies compounds this problem.…
Nigeria is full of vibrance and exuberant places. It is a country of diverse people with a gap between the wealthy and the impoverished. The Nigerian population is more than 154.7 million. Its biggest city is Lagos and its capital is Abuja. Its major dialect is English (which is an official language), other dialects are…
As very hard-working people, no doubt, we consider the possibility that routines wear people out and work-life balance is an important principle that needs to be imbibed by everyone. These days life expectancy of the average male is getting shorter, and more people especially men under the age of 40 are dying and for the…
Public health education can be considered an ambiguous term. It teaches the proper way to improve one’s health and can involve only one or two people, or the population of several countries. Anything that can seriously threaten the physical, mental, or spiritual health of a wide range of people, notably due to their interactions with…
Recently, I ended up in a popular spot in Lagos state where a group of people crowded around a sidewalk, all beaming with joy and chattering away at the wonder they crowded around; a pregnant woman who had just been delivered a healthy baby boy by a passer-by obstetrician in emergency labour by that…
Nigeria has greatly improved socio-economically unlike her past years. The problem of malnutrition still cut across some of her citizens. She has been long hobbled by political instability, corruption, inadequate infrastructure and poor macro-economic management. This has led her to over dependence on the capital-intensive oil sector, which provides 20% of GDP, 95% of…