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Nigeria is a signatory to several pledges made in international conferences to solve the problem of hunger, malnutrition, and child survival across the globe. Notable among those commitments are the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child. As the most ratified human rights treaty in history, the convention called for recognition of the child’s right to the “highest attainable standard of health.” In its wake, the World Declaration and Plan of Action on the Survival, Protection & Development of Children given at the 1990 World Summit for Children, remains by far the most celebrated instrument in history for ensuring child survival. In the Declaration, Nigeria, along with other world leaders, committed to “giving high priority to the child”. This document was one of the most convincing proofs that the cause of the child is at the top of the world’s agenda. It symbolized the drive to save millions of young lives from premature and preventable death and reflected hopes for a

As part of its response to boost infant nutrition and health in the country, Pfizer Nutrition has opened its new Lagos office to provide wide range of choice of high quality complementary infant nutrition products. In a chat with BusinessDay during the opening of its nutrition office, Tarek Youssef, Regional President, Africa Middle East, Pfizer revealed that Pfizer Nutrition had developed premium-quality nutrition products scientifically designed to meet the need of infants and lactating mothers. According to Youssef “These innovative and high quality nutrition products are ideal for mothers who cannot breastfeed and also for those who like to give complementary feeding to their babies, in addition to breast feeding. We want to start a new office in Nigeria because it is the logical thing to do in view of the potential in the market place in exchange of the business model and partnership we have been handling. Youseff disclosed that following the advent of the ope

As part of its response to boost infant nutrition and health in the country, Pfizer Nutrition has opened its new Lagos office to provide wide range of choice of high quality complementary infant nutrition products. In a chat with BusinessDay during the opening of its nutrition office, Tarek Youssef, Regional President, Africa Middle East, Pfizer revealed that Pfizer Nutrition had developed premium-quality nutrition products scientifically designed to meet the need of infants and lactating mothers. According to Youssef “These innovative and high quality nutrition products are ideal for mothers who cannot breastfeed and also for those who like to give complementary feeding to their babies, in addition to breast feeding. We want to start a new office in Nigeria because it is the logical thing to do in view of the potential in the market place in exchange of the business model and partnership we have been handling. Youseff disclosed that following the advent of the opening of the

…task private sector, civil society to invest into the new green economy There is no gain saying that in many developing countries, more than 70 percent of total energy is consumed by people and industry derives from forests. As a resource, forests provide many important natural resources, such as timber, fuel, rubber, paper and medicinal plants thus enabling the development of new medicines as well as progress in healthcare and science. Aside this, forests cover also help sustain the quality and availability of freshwater supplies with more than three quarters of the world’s accessible freshwater coming from forested catchments. Meanwhile, trade in timber and other forest products, is estimated at almost 330 billion dollars annually. While forests cover 31 percent of total land area while at the same time support 80 percent of terrestrial  biodiversity that live in them, many of the world’s most threatened and endangered animals live in these forests, making them crucial to

... Group reiterates call for control law in Nigeria Recently, Nigeria joined the World Health Organisation (WHO) and member nations to celebrate the “World No Tobacco Day” (WNTD) - a day set aside to draw global attention on the dangers of tobacco use, the business practices of tobacco industries, what the global health body is doing to fight the tobacco epidemic and what people can do to claim their right to health as well as protect future generations. Since its adoption by the World Health Assembly in 2003, 172 countries, of which 41 are from the African region including Nigeria and the European Union, have become parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC). With the objective of the convention aimed at protecting present and future generations from the devastating health, social, environmental and economic consequences of tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco by providing a framework for tobacco control measures to be

Alex Stories: Medical missions to the rescue in Nigeria’s health... : "..Offers affordable care to people in the grassroots The sustainability and viability of a nation’s ..."

..Offers affordable care to people in the grassroots The sustainability and viability of a nation’s economic and social growth depend largely on vibrant healthcare sector of that nation. However, no nation can maintain a steady economic growth in the absence of an adequate healthcare system.  Over the years, providing adequate health care to Nigerians has remained a daunting challenge previous administrations in the past have devised several means to address. While infant mortality has dropped to single digits per thousand births in countries with adequate and efficient healthcare systems, mortality indices in Nigeria is close to 100 per thousand. As improving Nigeria’s life expectancy is still seen as a tall dream, unsatisfactory and inadequate access to essential drugs and other healthcare services, has painted the nation in bad light. Individuals who throng primary healthcare centres, which is the entry point into the nation’s health service