Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is the use of HIV medicines to treat HIV infection. People on ART take a combination of HIV medicines (called an HIV treatment regimen) every day. ART is recommended for everyone who has HIV. ART can’t cure HIV, but HIV medicines help people with HIV live longer, healthier lives. You can get […]
Meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes (meninges) surrounding your brain and spinal cord. The swelling from meningitis typically triggers symptoms such as headache, fever, and a stiff neck. Over 10,000 cases of meningitis occur annually in Nigeria; in 2017 alone, 14,766 cases were reported with 1,207 deaths. Vaccines are however available for the prevention […]
What is an adoption agency? An adoption agency can most easily be viewed as “the middleman.” Agencies are the intermediary in most adoptive journeys. Agencies are organized to facilitate adoptions and be in service of both birth parents and hopeful adoptive parents. An adoption agency typically provide six different services. These services include matching hopeful […]
The School of Nursing, Abuja, was established in 1981 at a temporary site in Suleja, Niger state. The General Hospital Suleja served as the school’s clinical base for the student nurses’ clinical experience under provisional approval by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria. Today, the institution operates from its permanent site at U.A.T.H Gwagwalada […]
Tramadol is a narcotic-like pain reliever. It is one of the most potent analgesics available today. However, like all pharmacological medications, tramadol is also harmful in large doses (or even in normal dosage in some genetically susceptible individuals). Analgesics are the traditional pain medications that we all consume for different types of aches and pains. […]
What is CBD syrup? Cannabidiol (CBD) is a phytocannabinoid discovered in 1940. It is one of some 113 identified cannabinoids in cannabis plants and accounts for up to 40% of the plant’s extract. In 2018, clinical research on cannabidiol included preliminary studies of anxiety, cognition, movement disorders, and pain. CBD Syrup is cannabidiol that is […]
Methadone, sold under the brand name Dolophine among others, is an opioid used for opioid maintenance therapy in opioid dependence and for management of chronic pain. Detoxification using methadone can either be done relatively rapidly in less than a month or gradually over as long as six months. It was created by German doctors […]
School of Health Technology Jahun was founded in 1989. It is the first School of Health Technology in Jigawa state Nigeria and the first to offer the Community Health Aids (CHA’s) course as its basic professional program in 1990. Since its inception, the school has introduced five (5) additional courses in Health Information Management, Medical […]
Ghana black soap is a type of African black soap, also known by various local names such as sabulun salo in hausa, ose dudu in yoruba and ncha nkota in igbo. It is made from the ash of locally harvested African plants, which gives the soap its characteristic dark color. Black soap has become a […]
