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Nigeria: Good and Bad News About Universal Healthcare Coverage
[This Day] Whenever one is presented with the question, "Do you want the good news or bad news first", do you know about 75 per cent of people want the bad news first? Today, we will deviate from the norm and start with a bit of good news. Seven years ago, Nigeria endorsed a declaration in support of Universal Health Coverage. She stood before the United Nations and promised that Nigeria would provide access to quality affordable healthcare as an essential priority for Nigerians.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 12, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Coronavirus live news: WHO urges Pakistan to reimpose lockdown as Brazil restores Covid-19 data
WHO official walks back asymptomatic transmission comments; world faces worst food crisis in 50 years; UK NHS waiting list could hit 10m. Follow the latest updatesMoscow relaxes lockdown despite high caseload; Nigerian deaths riseMore than a dozen US states see record high of new casesJudge orders Bolsonaro to resume publishing Brazil Covid-19 dataAustralia coronavirus updates – liveSee all our coronavirus coverage12.43amBSTHello and welcome to today ’s live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic with me, Helen Sullivan.As always, it would be great to hear from you. Get in touch with questions, comments, tips and news fr...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 9, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Helen Sullivan Tags: Coronavirus outbreak World news Australia news UK news US news Americas Middle East and North Africa Asia Pacific New Zealand Canada Science Infectious diseases Source Type: news
UK Responds to Lassa Fever Outbreak in Nigeria UK Responds to Lassa Fever Outbreak in Nigeria
The UK Public Health Rapid Support Team is being deployed to Nigeria as part of global efforts to control a Lassa fever outbreak.WebMD Health News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - March 6, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Nigeria:Africa Check Campaigns Against Fake News On Health
[This Day] Abuja -A nongovernmental organisation, Africa Check, has increased its commitment in the campaign against fake news and its effects, especially in health issues and the dire consequences that the anomaly has caused.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 4, 2018 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Dozens Feared Dead after Oil Tanker Explodes in Nigeria
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — An overturned oil tanker exploded in Nigeria while dozens of people were scooping up the leaking fuel and many were killed, police and witnesses said Saturday.
Hundreds of people have died in similar accidents in recent years in Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer, as impoverished people risk their lives to collect fuel leaking from pipelines or trucks.
"We have recovered 12 corpses and taken 22 persons with serious burns to hospital," police spokeswoman Irene Ugbo told The Associated Press. She said the blast occurred Friday evening in Odukpani in Cross River state in the southeast.
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Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - January 13, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: International Major Incidents News Mass Casualty Incidents Source Type: news
Nigeria: Cheering News for Billionaire Businessman, Scott Tommey As Wife Delivers Triplet
[This Day] Popular Abuja-based billionaire businessman, Scott Tommey is over the moon right now as his beautiful wife, Seiyefa, has blessed him with a triplet in faraway United States Of America recently. We gathered that mother and babies are in a very good condition. Like a kid giddy with delight after getting his first taste of Chocolate, Scott shared the joyous news to family and friends and congratulations have not stopped pouring in for the latest father in town.
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - September 2, 2019 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Nigeria: Fake News Deadlier Than Covid-19, Says Lagos Information Commissioner
[This Day] Lagos State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Mr. Gbenga Omotoso, has said that fake news, especially on the social media, is deadlier than the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 30, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: News Agency of Nigeria Sets Up Solutions Journalism Desk With Support From Nigeria Health Watch
[Nigeria Health Watch] The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has committed to setting up a dedicated Solutions Journalism desk in the organisation that will focus on reporting on efforts that are addressing various social challenges across Nigeria.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 16, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
News Agencies Must Paint a Complete Picture of Coronavirus
Credit: UN News/Li ZhangBy Ifeanyi NsoforABUJA, Mar 9 2020 (IPS) Recently, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said, “We have an epidemic caused by Coronavirus, but we have a pandemic caused by fear “.
This fear is worsened by how news agencies report the outbreak. These are some examples.
“Bodies ‘pile up’ in morgue as Iran feels strain of coronavirus” – CNN
“First UK death from coronavirus confirmed as cases surge to 115” – The Guardian UK
“Coronavirus: Global death toll exceeds 3,000” – Premium Times Nigeria
“Death toll from coronavirus in Italy rises to 148: Live updates” ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 9, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ifeanyi Nsofor Tags: Featured Global Headlines Health TerraViva United Nations Coronavirus Source Type: news
Modelling the antecedent factors that affect online fake news sharing on COVID-19: the moderating role of fake news knowledge
AbstractWe proposed a conceptual model combining three theories: uses and gratification theory, social networking sites (SNS) dependency theory and social impact theory to understand the factors that predict fake news sharing related to COVID-19. We also tested the moderating role of fake news knowledge in reducing the tendency to share fake news. Data were drawn from social media users (n = 650) in Nigeria, and partial least squares was used to analyse the data. Our results suggest that tie strength was the strongest predictor of fake news sharing related to COVID-19 pandemic. We also found perceived herd, SNS depend...
Source: Health Education Research - October 21, 2020 Category: Research Source Type: research
Comparing "insider" and "outsider" news coverage of the 2014 Ebola outbreak.
CONCLUSION: Our findings highlight how different geographic contexts can shape reporting on the same event. Further research is required to investigate how the political, social or economic situations of a country shape its news media, potentially influencing actions taken to control disease outbreaks.
PMID: 29120309 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Canadian Journal of Public Health - November 9, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Humphries B, Radice M, Lauzier S Tags: Can J Public Health Source Type: research
Coronavirus live news: 1m tests to be rolled out across Africa, as WHO warns over Europe situation
Trump casts doubt on China death toll; WHO chief hopes US will remain a ‘friend’; almost 700 test positive on French aircraft carrierCoronavirus latest: at a glanceTrump fans flames of Chinese lab theory during daily briefingAustralia coronavirus updates – liveSee all of our coronavirus coverage1.09pmBSTSecurity forces enforcing the lockdown inNigeria to curb the spread of Covid-19 have killed more people so far than the virus itself, the country ’s official human rights body reports.Nigeria has imposed a total lockdown in the capital Abuja and economic hub Lagos, a city of some 21 million people, and set restricti...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - April 16, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Damien Gayle (now); Simon Murphy and Helen Sullivan(earlier) Tags: Coronavirus outbreak World news Europe Middle East and North Africa Asia Pacific Science Infectious diseases Australia news China Russia UK news US news Microbiology Medical research Source Type: news
Twitter Conversations and English News Media Reports on Poliomyelitis in Five Different Countries, January 2014 to April 2015.
DISCUSSION: Contrary to our hypothesis, our evidence suggests Twitter content differs significantly from English mass media content. Evidence from our study helps inform media monitoring and communications surveillance during global public health crises, such as infectious disease outbreaks, as well as reactions to health promotion campaigns.
PMID: 31314733 [PubMed - in process]
Source: The Permanente journal - July 19, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Perm J Source Type: research
News reporting of suicidal behaviour in Nigeria: Adherence assessment to World Health Organization guidelines.
CONCLUSION: The study found that Nigeria's online newspapers are poorly adherent to the WHO media reporting guidelines. Explicit descriptions of the person, methods, life events, and mono-causal explanations were frequently published. Negligible initiatives have been found to educate the general people in the reports.
PMID: 33023354 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The International Journal of Social Psychiatry - October 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Oyetunji TP, Arafat SY, Oluwaseyi FS, Oluwasanmi O, Afolami M, Ajayi FM Tags: Int J Soc Psychiatry Source Type: research
Dialogic contractions in online news discourse on violence against women in Nigeria - Aragbuwa A.
The paper analyses dialogic contractions in selected online news discourse on Violence against Women (henceforth, VAW) in Nigeria. The data comprise ten (10) purposively selected online news reports on various cases of VAW sourced from the news archives of...
Source: SafetyLit - October 27, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Media, Marketing, and Internet Issues Source Type: news
