Slum and Rural Health Initiative
We fight social injustice by creating access to quality healthcare information and services in the world's most underserved region in Africa
Members of our research academy have published in 200 peer-reviewed articles and presented in over 35 conferences across 5 countries.
Sexuality is an essential component of healthy development for young people. The World Health Organization and the report from the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development emphasize the importance of healthy sexual development to overall mental and physical well-being. Despite the widely recognized importance of sexual health, education to promote it remains a sensitive …
“How much worse could life get?”, Kate wondered. To her, people were just ravaging lions waiting for the next available opportunity to ridicule and stigmatize the weak. Unfortunately for her, she had joined the “weak gang” and she could fully understand the pains and the travails of being ridiculed and stigmatized. She had always been …
Ajoke looked at her reflection in the mirror and felt so disappointed…She had been careful for 18 years and just lost her virginity to Paul, a 23 year old University student. He had said to take the baby to the father…had he forgotten that he deflowered her? She imagined the hurt and betrayal her parents …
When it comes to health, nothing beats the fact that prevention is better than cure. Certainly, when it comes to protecting against infections, the skin does a very good job. Taking good care of the skin is important for more than just one’s appearance. As the largest organ you have, your skin is essential to …
Our daily activities are lined with events that consciously or unconsciously affect our mental health. As individuals, we go through events and circumstances that could weigh us down mentally and physically; From having to attend an average of 5 virtual daily meetings, meeting up with deadlines, dealing with an unfriendly boss, getting stuck in traffic …
Flourish was an accounting student at the prestigious University of Lagos, a happy girl who was glad to have gotten admission at just the first trial. Her excitement was evident in all that she did. She was faced with the struggles that came with being in a higher institution, some of which she was nonchalant …
My first encounter with the actual world was my tertiary education. I had a defined mold for everyone I came across and whoever did not fit in; I considered abnormal. You can imagine how odd it must have been for me to have a roommate who often held conversations with herself as though she were …
Elbows off the table! Sit up straight! Hold your head up! Mothers and often teachers yell these phrases at kids who innocently treat these rules thrown at them with as much regard as they hold for every instruction they dislike. While some of them correct their postural problems to fit into the modeling industry, most …
Before I give you an answer to this question, let me tell you what you might not know about this thing called vaccination. What is vaccination? Vaccination is injecting a dead microbe into an individual in order to stimulate the immune system against the microbe, preventing disease. This stimulates the immune system of the body, …
Technology they say revolutionizes our lives, love it or hate it, it affects almost everything we do today and also influences most of our plans for the future. Whether we experience the benefits of hearing aids or hearing implants, use mobile phones, use washing machines, vacuum cleaners, surf the internet or turn trackers on in …
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