Cultivating a healthier West Africa
CHILD & Associates will be 10 years old this coming July, so we are starting the party early with events, surprises, gifts and as always our best service to you. Each week we will highlight a different health theme or message. SO come in and be part of the festivities!!!
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Doctors in parts of Nigeria have reportedly seen an increase in patients treated for allergies.This may be partly as a result of Nigerian societies adopting Westernised lifestyles and substituting traditional options for more modern choices. The allergy increase is due to their lifestyle choices preventing them from being exposed to the good micro-organisms that prevent allergies.
Nigeria is not unique. Research shows that allergic diseases have been increasing in both developed and developing countries as a result of rising living standards and the adoption western lifestyles.
The World Health Organisation suggests that more than 235 million people worldwide suffer from atopic dermatitis, allergic rhinitis and allergic asthma.
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The Department of Health is to cut about 650 jobs to reduce running costs.
Non-senior staff numbers will fall from 1,800 to 1,200-1,300 by April 2017 and staff at three London offices will move to a single site in Westminster.
Most Whitehall budgets were cut in last November’s spending review and the DoH is trying to make efficiency savings of 30% in the next five years.
The chancellor announced a cut in the budget of the Department of Health although NHS spending was protected.
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A special NHS fund for cancer medicines in England needs to be managed more effectively, says a committee of MPs.
In its report on the Cancer Drugs Fund, the Public Accounts Committee said it was unacceptable that the benefit to patients was still not clear.
The fund was set up in 2010 to improve access to cancer drugs that would not be routinely available on the NHS.
The fund, which is expected to have cost £1.27bn by April 2017, has helped more than 80,000 cancer patients.
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Health officials in Colombia are warning that as many as 600 babies could be born with microcephaly this year.
With the second highest rate of Zika virus infections after Brazil, Colombia has more than 2,000 pregnant women showing symptoms.
Microcephaly is the condition in which babies are born with brains that are smaller than normal.
The Colombian authorities have watched events in Brazil.
They say they are determined to avoid another tragedy on the same scale.
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Spain has confirmed that a pregnant woman has been diagnosed with the Zika virus – the first such case in Europe.
The health ministry said the woman had recently returned from Colombia, where it is believed she was infected.
Zika, which is spreading through the Americas, has been linked to babies being born with underdeveloped brains.
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The African Union – Diaspora African -Forum (AU-DAF) has honored and recognized President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and several other African women, including the former the Chairperson of the Council of State (COS) in Liberia, Mrs. Ruth Sando Perry and Dr. Juliette Tuakli, as “Women of Excellence”.
According to a dispatch from Johannesburg, South Africa, the honor was bestowed on them during a special AU-DAF Women of Excellence Awards Banquet held on Friday, June 12, 2015.
Others who received the “Women of Excellence” Award included Saida Agrebi of the Pan African Parliament representing Tunisia; Mrs. Nardos Bekele-Thomas, Resident Representative of the UNDP in Kenya; Dr. Arikana Chihombori, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and founder of Bell Family Medical Center in Tennessee, USA; Graca Machel of the Africa Progress Panel; and Justice Victoria Okobi, the first female non-lawyer to serve on the bench of the National Industrial Court.
Still others were Mrs. Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, wife of former President Rawlings of Ghana; Mrs. Salma Salifu, founder and CEO of Destiny Industries Limited in Ghana; Dr. Juliette Tuakli, Executive Board member of Mercy Ships international; Mrs. Joyce Banda, former President of Malawi; H.E. Mama Ngina Kenyatta, former First Lady of Kenya; Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, former wife of the late President Nelson Mandela; and H.E. Dr. Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission among others.
President Sirleaf pointed out that there is no greater honor than being honored by your own and that was exactly what the women were doing at the honoring event. She extended her personal commendation to the rest of the honorees for their achievements and expressed that leadership responsibility for she and former President Joyce Banda is just the beginning for women’s leadership on the continent and the world at large and for greater movement of women that is surely coming, unstoppable, and irreversible. She said women, and many women, in the next ten years will be what she represents today.
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Pressures on GPs in England and Wales are so great they feel they are failing patients and potentially providing unsafe care, doctors leaders say.
British Medical Association GP leader Dr Chaand Nagpaul said doctors were having to rush patients to keep up.
And he said this could be potentially dangerous in terms of identifying cancer and getting medicines right.
But ministers in England responded by promising they would invest in services to address the concerns.
The frank admission by Dr Nagpaul comes as the BMA releases the results of an online survey of nearly 2,900 practices in England and 145 in Wales – about one in three of the total in both nations.
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CHILDAccra is pleased to collaborate with A Global Rotarian Medical Mission in mid July. The Mission will involve Rotary Club of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA, Rotary Club of Accra, Ghana, Rotary Club of Ho and CHILD & Associates. The Mission will engage 2 communities in the Volta Region (Nkonya-Wumpong districts) in care and prevention of Malaria, nutrition, water filtration and deworming. Data tracking will be implemented to assess the effectiveness of medical interventions provided. The CEO of CHILDAccra, Dr. Juliette Tuakli, will be the Medical Supervisor.
