Malaria is a disease caused by mosquito parasite which has caused so many deaths to both pregnant women and the babies. malaria during pregnancies is a recognized risk factor for low birth weight and probably decreases the survival of offspring, particularly during their first month of life. on the other hand, acquired maternal immunity may protect infants against malaria infection or disease.
The disease kills mothers while giving birth to a child and the child will also follow the mother to the grave. of a teenager who contacts HIV simply because she is ignorant about how it is spread; of a teacher who misses an entire school year because of a mosquito bite and lack of agony spaining medicine.
One in five Nigerian Children dies before the age of five, approximately 1,000,000 total each year. A child dies of malaria in Africa every 29 seconds. In Nigeria, 80% of the population is exposed to the disease and 60 million individuals experience a malaria attack at least twice in a year. The Nigerian economy loses an estimated 1 billion each year due to malaria related absenteeism. and treatment cost.
though malaria is both easily preventable and treatable, 300,000 Nigerian children and 7,000 mothers die annually from the disease. malaria accounts for 25% of Nigeria's staggering high infant mortality rate. 30% of its child mortality rate (children less than 5 years of age) and 11% of its maternal mortality rate.
though malaria accounts for 63% of all reported disease in Nigeria health facilities less than 1% of the total population uses insecticide-treated bed net.
Inadequate health care infrastructure and low inadequate healthcare expenditure are the major thing that is affecting Nigerians in general especially Anambra State in particular suffers from woefully inadequate healthcare infrastructure. according to a 2007 report by the World Heath Organization (WHO) Nigeria's health system ranks 187 out of 190 countries.
Our privately funded hospitals is needed to help compensate for pitifully low federal healthcare expenditure. per capita public spending for health in Nigeria is less than $5 and is as low as $2.
malaria is considered one of the major causes of maternal and infant mortality worldwide hence the huge investment of MDGs in the Nigeria's malaria control programme.
Midwifery services scheme - The Federal Government of Nigeria under the 2009 Federal Appropriation Act established the midwives service scheme of 2,488 midwives were deployed to 652 primary health care facilities in rural areas to ensure increased coverage of skilled attendance at births at all times so as to facilitate reduction in maternal, newborn and child morbidity and mortality. The Polio eradication campaign is ongoing with significant reduction of polio detected cases from 286 in 2009 to only 3 in 2010.
Tuesday 10 April 2012
Profile of Ekaette Anthony Udim
My name is Ekaette Anthony Udim, a daughter to Mr. Anthony Aniekpeno Udim and Mrs. Sylvia Anthony Udim i am the third child in the family of six children and the second daughter
Ekaette is a native of Ukanafun Ikot Ekpat in ukanafun Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom State. our village is located in the southern part of Ukanafun in Afaha Clan. there are 10 families in my village which each is headed by a family head.
I was born on the 17th of June 1988. i had my primary school at St. Patrick Catholic School Ukanafun Ikot Ekpat and my secondary school at Community Secondary School Urua Ekpa enanng. I had my National Diploma at Akwa ibom State Polytechnic Ikot Osurua and graduated with GP of 2.91 which gives a lower credit in mass communication. Presently I am studying communication Arts in the university of Uyo.
Ekaette has touched so many lives through my leadership qualities in the church. i am a christian who worships with the roman Catholic Church.
I hate discrimination and dishonesty. I love making friends with people from all races in the world.
Ekaette is a native of Ukanafun Ikot Ekpat in ukanafun Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom State. our village is located in the southern part of Ukanafun in Afaha Clan. there are 10 families in my village which each is headed by a family head.
I was born on the 17th of June 1988. i had my primary school at St. Patrick Catholic School Ukanafun Ikot Ekpat and my secondary school at Community Secondary School Urua Ekpa enanng. I had my National Diploma at Akwa ibom State Polytechnic Ikot Osurua and graduated with GP of 2.91 which gives a lower credit in mass communication. Presently I am studying communication Arts in the university of Uyo.
Ekaette has touched so many lives through my leadership qualities in the church. i am a christian who worships with the roman Catholic Church.
I hate discrimination and dishonesty. I love making friends with people from all races in the world.
Mary Onyeali Omagbemi's Story
She was born on February 3, 1968 as a Nigerian spinster who won the bronze medal in 4x100 meters relay in women's athletics. she is from Anambra State. she won the bronze medal at the 1992 summer Olympic and in 200 meters at the 1996 summer Olympics she also won the 1994 commonwealth games. she was the former African queen of the track from the grass root.
She performed especially well in the all African Games, winning a total of 7 individual medal in the short sprints. she won 100 meters in 1991, 1995 and 2003 and took a bronze medal in 1987. gold medal in 200 meters were taken in 1987, 1995 and 2003.
Mary Onyeali she took the name Omagbemi when marring Victor Omagbemi. she is very inspirational for many people.
her conservative Olympic appearance from 1988 to 2004 made her the first Nigerian to compete at five Olympics. this feat was equaled by table tennis players.
Mary Onyeali has truly made a name for herself in the track and field world. establishing several prestigious marks on the way. popularly called the queen of Nigerian sprints. her father passed away when she was a young child and her mother was left to raise her and younger siblings, a sister and two brothers. As the oldest of four children much of the responsibility of child raising fell strongly upon Mary. Her mother constantly emphasized the importance of their education and to her everything else was just extracurricular. The social norm for a female in Nigeria was everything but being an athlete. a woman was to go to school and eventually work and focus on marriage and raising a family. Mary was all but interested in this philosophy. she did not want to succumb to the pressure of marrying and having children. her traits of self win and stubbornness found her going against the social norm. getting involved in the sports of track and field was mere coincidence for Mary.
Mary started her athlete activities right from elementary school to higher school where she became the captain in some of the sports activities.
She represented Nigeria in various countries like Ghana, Cairo -Egypt, Athens, Greece etc and she was not left out of winning during these period. she also had a coach in the person of Mr. Tobids Igwe who was the founder mentalist of her career.
Mary did not stop her education career at the secondary school level, she further her studies at Texas Southern University in 1985 and graduated in 1990. presently she is one of the ten Ministerial nominee by the president Johnathan's administration.
challenges
- she was denied scholarship for further studies.
- she went through foot surgery in December 1991
- she hate to be dared and vowed not to listen to negative advice
- the big challenge was the emotional well-being. missing her baby and wondering if everything was alright back at home.
She performed especially well in the all African Games, winning a total of 7 individual medal in the short sprints. she won 100 meters in 1991, 1995 and 2003 and took a bronze medal in 1987. gold medal in 200 meters were taken in 1987, 1995 and 2003.
Mary Onyeali she took the name Omagbemi when marring Victor Omagbemi. she is very inspirational for many people.
her conservative Olympic appearance from 1988 to 2004 made her the first Nigerian to compete at five Olympics. this feat was equaled by table tennis players.
Mary Onyeali has truly made a name for herself in the track and field world. establishing several prestigious marks on the way. popularly called the queen of Nigerian sprints. her father passed away when she was a young child and her mother was left to raise her and younger siblings, a sister and two brothers. As the oldest of four children much of the responsibility of child raising fell strongly upon Mary. Her mother constantly emphasized the importance of their education and to her everything else was just extracurricular. The social norm for a female in Nigeria was everything but being an athlete. a woman was to go to school and eventually work and focus on marriage and raising a family. Mary was all but interested in this philosophy. she did not want to succumb to the pressure of marrying and having children. her traits of self win and stubbornness found her going against the social norm. getting involved in the sports of track and field was mere coincidence for Mary.
Mary started her athlete activities right from elementary school to higher school where she became the captain in some of the sports activities.
She represented Nigeria in various countries like Ghana, Cairo -Egypt, Athens, Greece etc and she was not left out of winning during these period. she also had a coach in the person of Mr. Tobids Igwe who was the founder mentalist of her career.
Mary did not stop her education career at the secondary school level, she further her studies at Texas Southern University in 1985 and graduated in 1990. presently she is one of the ten Ministerial nominee by the president Johnathan's administration.
challenges
- she was denied scholarship for further studies.
- she went through foot surgery in December 1991
- she hate to be dared and vowed not to listen to negative advice
- the big challenge was the emotional well-being. missing her baby and wondering if everything was alright back at home.
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