Nigeria Health Watch

When your neighbour dies from measles, during child birth, in a car accident, rather than conclude it was as "God wanted it", think, ask and act on the failures; the missed chance at vaccination, inadequate antenatal care or non-existent emergency services that might have prevented these deaths. The alternative would be to conclude that God really has a problem with us Nigerians; why else would he let so many of us die from causes no one else is dying from? We will ask the hard questions.

Thursday, 9 August 2007

Testing is free, drugs are free, go for voluntary counselling and testing!

Flipping through the dailies in Nigeria, it is good to note how HIV/AIDS prevention messages have evolved and developed ....from the days of "AIDS KILLS!".

Kudos to NACA...and their communications department.

2 comments:

Nigerians 4 change said...: People actually do need to realize that testing positive is not a death sentence!; 18 September 2008 06:33
Beauty said...: On the back of this I found additional effort here senior special adviser to the president on MDG's Amina Ibrahim has said, "our present health indices is very low, our health sta-tistics are one of the worst in the world, and indeed it is a sad day for all of us because it is obvious that we have not done enough, but with the NHIS on our team we are already half way there. http://allafrica.com/stories/200809150844.html; 16 November 2008 20:17