Early pregnancy can put young women’s mental health at risk: a review of African evidence
Donwilson Odhiambo/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Manasi Kumar, Aga Khan University The rates of adolescent pregnancies in sub-Saharan Africa are among the world’s highest. The adolescent birth rate is as high as 139 per 1,000 girls in Tanzania and 96 per 1,000 in Kenya. This is significantly higher than developed countries like Canada where the […]
Notable speakers for the 2021 Pride Women Conference to provide a roadmap for post COVID-19 well-being
Boasting a fantastic line-up of speakers, the fifth edition of the Pride Women Conference, which has the theme “Thriving Emotionally, Economically and Physically in the Post COVID-19 World”, will provide women and men with tools to cope in a world that has dramatically changed over the past year. “Throughout the course of 2020, and till […]
African Alliance MD/CEO, Joyce Ojemudia to Chair Pride Women Conference 2021
The MD/CEO of African Alliance Insurance Plc, Joyce Ojemudia will chair the fifth edition of the Pride Women Conference, taking place in May 2021. The Pride Women Conference aims to outline strategic objectives and actions for the emotional and material wellbeing of the 21st-century woman, her family, and society. The year 2020 was stressful due […]
The Coronavirus Pandemic and your Mental Health
The present pandemic is not without its accompanying ills. We need a public health education campaign on the importance of mental health, designed to help awareness of the reality of mental illness and the need to look after or mental health. The current Corona virus pandemic and its ramifications possess the potential to severely impact […]
Danger! Act Now or Kill the Future
There is a danger staring us in the face, so scarily and silently prejudicing the future we all cherish for our children, but we seem to turn our backs in pretense we are less concerned. It will seems less important an issue when we table it in comparison with the present challenges bedeviling the nation […]
POSTPONEMENT OF THE 2020 PRIDE WOMEN CONFERENCE
The Pride Women Conference scheduled to take place on Friday, May 8, 2020 at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island, Lagos have been postponed due to the current COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. A new date for the event will be announced after the lockdown. Take good care of yourself and stay safe.
Dr. Grace Okudo to Speak at the 4th Annual Pride Women Conference – Save the Date
Consultant physician, dermatologist and venereologist Dr. Grace Chita Okudo, a Fellow of the Medical College of Physicians of Nigeria, and retired Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) and Head of Nigeria Police Medical Services is one of the speakers billed to speak at the 2020 Pride Women Conference. Dr. Okudo has served Nigeria meritoriously both as […]
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Stop medicalising loneliness – history reveals it’s society that needs mending
Sasha Freemind/Unsplash, FAL Fay Bound Alberti, University of York What does loneliness sound like? I asked this question on Twitter recently. You might expect that people would say “silence”, but they didn’t. Their answers included: The wind whistling in my chimney, because I only ever hear it when I’m alone. The hubbub of a pub […]
PRIDE WOMEN CONFERENCE HOLDS FRIDAY, MAY 24, 2019
The 2019 Pride Women Conference will take place on Friday, May 24, 2019 at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. The theme of this year’s conference is Women: Work, Relationship and Marriage – The Conversation Expands. The conference will be chaired by the Founder and CEO of Medplus Pharmacist (Mrs) Joke Bakare. […]