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  Women and Sleep: Why Women May Experience More Difficulty In Sleeping Than Men

  RH Weekly News Roundup – 16 September 2016A New National Health Policy[fl]T[/fl]he Federal Government hosted an Emergency National Council on Health meeting last week. The outcome? Approval of a new national health policy which spells out responsibilities at every level of government. Itâ€...

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  Is It Possible To Be Modest And Athletic?

  RH Weekly News Roundup – 26 August 2016UN Sounds the Emergency Alarm in Northern Nigeria[fl]L[/fl]ast week, the United Nations World Health Organisation (UN WHO) sent an emergency convoy into 15 local government areas (LGAs) previously held by Boko Haram. As the Nigerian military works to ...

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  Can Nigeria’s Female Authors Change the World?

  RH Weekly News Roundup – 19 August 2016Starting from Scratch on Polio Eradication[fl]I[/fl]t’s been two years since Nigeria had a reported case of Polio within its borders. That has everything to do with the coordinated efforts poured into vaccinations over several years. If Nigeria had ...

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  Unprecedented Numbers of Women Trafficked into Europe

  RH Weekly News Roundup – 12 August 2016Unprecedented Numbers of Women Trafficked into Europe [fl]T[/fl]ake a deep breath before you read this. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has released figures showing an increase of Nigerian women entering Italy by sea. It is estimat...

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  Nigerians Haven’t Grown Much In The Last Century

  RH Weekly News Roundup – 29 July 2016Polio-Free for Two Years and Running[fl] I[/fl]t’s been two years since Nigeria reported its last case of Polio. There are less than 365 days until the country is certified as free from the virus. And, Nigeria was the last bastion of the crippling dis...

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  Doctors Without Borders Calls for Humanitarian Intervention

  RH Weekly News Roundup – 22 July 2016Doctors Without Borders Calls for Humanitarian Intervention [fl]A[/fl]ccording to Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF), over 500,000 displaced persons in Bama are in urgent need of care. At the end of June, MSF evacuated 1500 peop...

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  Radiant News Digest: Nursing Mothers Not Receiving Care But Not Allowed To Leave

  Not Receiving Care, but Unable to Leave[fl]I[/fl]n Abia state, the Thomas Reuters Foundation has uncovered the shocking story of nursing mothers that are unable to leave the maternity ward at Umuahia Federal Medical Centre – even though they’ve officially been discharged by overseeing doctor...

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