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WELBODI Episode 224 Hepatitis

This edition focuses on hepatitis, a disease of the liver caused by 5 different viruses and yet not known by a lot people. In fact, most of the 400 million people with chronic hepatitis B and C, the most severe…

WELBODI Episode 223 WHO’s SURGE Initiative

This edition focuses on the World Health Organization’s Strengthening and Utilization of Emergency Response Groups (SURGE) initiative and the dozens of health professionals who recently concluded their training under this program. Now, SURGE is one of three flagship programs by…

WELBODI EPISODE 221 Waasun Annual Meeting And PTSD

We begin this edition with updates from the 4th edition of the West African Aedes Surveillance Network, WAASUN, annual meeting. In Sub-Saharan Africa, Aedes-borne arboviral diseases such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya are being reported with increasing frequency. The West…

WELBODI Episode 219 World Sickle Cell Day

World Sickle Cell Day marked annually on June 19, calls for the building and strengthening of Global Sickle Cell Communities, Formalizing New-born Screening and Knowing your Sickle Cell Disease Status. It also aims to increase public knowledge and an understanding…

WELBODI Episode 218 World Albinism Day

International Albinism Awareness Day, IAAD, is marked annually on June 13 to raise awareness about the condition and to stop the brutalities against people with albinism. The day also illuminates the challenges faced by those with albinism and promotes their…

WELBODI Episode 217 Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health

Globally, there is a regression in the progress of women’s rights protection, increased rates of domestic violence, and amplified poverty in women. Pregnancy and childbirth, compounded by gender inequalities, expose women and adolescent girls, especially, to sexual and reproductive health…

WELBODI Episode 213 Prostate Cancer

Today, we will be talking about Prostate cancer, a type of cancer that occurs in the prostate. The prostate is a small walnut-shaped gland located between the penis and the bladder. Its main function is the production of seminal fluid…