As we celebrate the 2016 and the 10th World Rabies Day, Kenya will be observing the second anniversary of the launch of her strategy for elimination of human rabies by 2030. The implementation plan was to start small by focusing on select pilot regions where the elimination strategies would be tested, demonstrate success in those pilot …
Years ago as a young doctor in Nigeria, I was drawn to a baby’s weak cry while I did my ward rounds that evening. After delivery at home, the mother had been rushed with her baby to the hospital. The baby was not nursing and the cord was quite foul smelling with some sort of …
In my country of India, the Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma recently asked foreign women to self-regulate their behavior when visiting “for their own safety.” New welcome kits given to all foreign arrivals, he said, now include safety advice for women such as advising them to not wear skirts or dresses. Advice like this, which implies that sexual harassment and assault is …
Last year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approved a vaccine for meningococcal disease, or meningitis, yet many of this year’s 20.5 million college students are not vaccinated, leaving them vulnerable to contracting the disease. According to the CDC, meningococcal disease refers to any illness that is caused by the type of bacteria called Neisseria meningitides and …
It was dawn in Nigeria on Dec. 31, 1983, just a few days before my ninth birthday and I was excited for my party. When the news broke that the military had taken over power in a coup, my father, a former police officer and a card-carrying member of the Unity Party of Nigeria, a …