Mrs Zainab Wai-Lansana is the daughter of Fatmata Rosalyn, a princess whose life started in a red house in Pendembu, a small village in Sierra Leone close to the border with Liberia. When she was 6, Fatmata's mother died in childbirth, and during the civil war 1999-2001, the red house was bombed. Sierra Leone is a small country on the coast of West Africa, with a population around 5 to 6 million. Click for article.
Two press releases from USAID: one announces a partnership with USAID, World Learning and Cisco to train entrepeneurs in developing countries; the second announces USAID funding for healthcare in Kenya. Both resulted after President Obama promised aid. Click for article.
You know in a country where humans die because they cannot get to hospitals because the roads blown up in war have not been repaired, or because hospitals are ill-equipped, or because hospital staff are under-trained and too few, you know life is tough for dogs. Read the story of Bibi, the IMATT dog. Click for article.
NAFDAC is the agency for regulating drugs in Nigeria. What drugs are regulated and why: read a basic guide to what and how Nigeria regulates drugs. Click for article.
Until the late 1930s, a drug only had to be proved effective to be marketed in the United States. The horror story of drugs being dissolved in the deadly poison DEG (diethylene glycol) and given to children changed that. Drugs are still being dissolved in DEG. Click for article.
How are drugs tested on humans? By clinical trial; but only after the drugs have been tested on mice, rats, bacteria, other forms of life and shown to be delivered in a consistent dose. Read about how clinical trials have evolved, click for article.
Chief Lookman Sulaimon Arounfale and Dr Susanna J Dodgson travel to Nigeria to celebrate a king's coronation. Dr Dodgson travels on to Sierra Leone to witness Mrs Zainab Wai-Lansana's donation of 99 boxes and 5 barrels of medical supplies, computers, books and clothes, and stays to witness and state funeral and work with a war-torn community to build a library. Click for article.
Dr Susanna J Dodgson and Mrs Zainab Wai-Lansana show up in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Click for article.
Chief Lookman Sulaimon Arounfale and Nigerian friends in Yoruba group Egbe Omo throw a summer picnic in New York. Click for article.
Dr Nkechi Agwu, President of NYC chapter of AAUW. The chapter owns a house in Manhattan, close to 42nd St Station, not far from the UN. Click for article.
Attorney-General of Lagos State, Nigeria's most populous state, talks to the Nigerian Lawyer's Association in Manhattan, Click for article.
New York Governor David Paterson, a good man, still doing good. Click for article.
FDA warns about a quinine-containing drug for malaria. Click for article.
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