Period poverty which is women and girls’ inadequate access to sanitary products and education, is an extension of the widespread poverty existing in Nigeria. With 95.1 million people projected to be living below the poverty line in 2022[1] amid extremely scarce resources, there is little emphasis placed on providing menstrual hygiene and health products…
Mental health is recognised as the totality of the psychological, socio-economic, emotional and physical well-being of the individual. Accordingly, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recognised mental health to be the state of guaranteed level of well-being in which the individual realises his or her own abilities, can cope with what is believed to be…
Dementia is a general term for loss of memory, language, problem-solving and other thinking abilities that are severe enough to interfere with daily life. Though dementia mostly affects older adults, it is not a part of normal aging. Symptoms The symptoms of dementia depends on the cause, but common signs and symptoms include: cognitive changes (memory…
Girls for Health and Literacy (GfHL) with funding from Centre for Health and Ethics, Law and Development (CHELD) recently organised a two-day cervical cancer awareness campaign at Abraka and Obiaruku towns in Delta State to educate women in both communities on the issue of cervical cancer and the importance of pap smear screening to identify…
Child protection is the safeguarding of children from violence, exploitation, abuse, and neglect. Article 19 §1 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child states: ‘Parties shall take all appropriate legislative, administrative, social and educational measures to protect the child from all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation,…
During the month, CHELD joined healthcare professionals and international development organisations around the world to celebrate the World Breastfeeding Week (1- 8 August) through a media campaign on social media highlighting a public health approach to breastfeeding in Nigeria. Some of the issues highlighted were the impact/role of the following policy issues in promoting breastfeeding.…
Nigeria continues to experience high internal and external human trafficking due to the growing size of its population, high insecurity, climate as well as its unmanned borders. Over the years, significant effort has been undertaken at the national and international level to establish an effective and globally coordinated approach to combatting trafficking, however, these efforts…
The Centre for Health Ethics Law and Development (CHELD) Align with the support of ALIGN (ODI) carried out a study to assess how female-led CSOs engage men and boys through strategies and policies in the prevention, reduction and elimination of sexual violence within Nigerian tertiary Institutions. Please join us at the CHELD’s webinar: ‘Ending the…