Herbal Pro Democracy Celebration Promo. Enjoy huge discounts on every pack of EZ Slim and the opportunity to meet Lepacious Bose live this May

To celebrate with Nigerians, EZ Slim, Nigeria’s number 1 herbal weight loss solution will cost just 9,000 naira till the end of May 2017.

We distributed 7 million condoms to Abuja residents in 2016 - FACA

The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Agency for Control of HIV/AIDS (FACA) said it distributed seven million condoms to FCT residents in 2016, to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. In a recent interview with NAN, the Project Manager of the agency, Dr Uche Okoro said that beneficiaries consisted of those vulnerable to the condition like commercial sex workers and homosexuals.
He further said that FACA carried out intensive training for those prone to HIV/AIDS infection on the importance of the use of condoms, consistently, while having sexual intercourse.

According to Okoro, the prevalence of HIV had reduced drastically in the FCT with the agency’s massive enlightenment campaign, especially in 2016.

He also said that FACA had designed a five-year strategic plan from, 2017 to 2021, on eradicating HIV/AIDS in the territory.

Photos: Overweight woman talks about self love, shares half nude photo of herself

Upcoming Detroit, Michigan rapper, Dank Demoss took to her Facebook account to address cyber bullies and 'fat/body shamers'. She also used the opportunity to encourage people to love themselves regardless of their body weight.

The post has been shared over 36 thousand times with over 21 thousand comments. Some people were against her weight, while a lot of others encouraged her to keep loving herself. Read her post after the cut...

"They tried to break me ! They tried to be friend me because of who I am ! They tried to drive me in sane ! They want me in that whole again !!! They want me to hate myself !!! They think I shouldn't be here because according to their. Books I'm FAT AND IM SLOPPY ! What if i was 150 lbs and I took this picture would I get negative or positive ? What if I had the body of a goddess ? Those pple still don't have as much confidence as I do !! I took this picture bc I want everyone... to know that they are beautiful !!! Y'all have purpose ! Y'all can change the world you are great you are powerful u are smart you are intelligent MOST OF ALL YOU ARE DIFFERENT !!! I know I'm going to get a lot of negativity from my picture but I don't. Care man !!! Because y'all will never ever take me back to that dark place again !!!
Love yourself and believe that you are great
Pa.DANK"

Malaria First large-scale vaccine trials for Africa

The injectable vaccine RTS,S could provide limited protection against a disease that killed 429,000 people worldwide in 2015.

A new malaria vaccine will be tested on a large scale in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi, the World Health Organization said Monday, with 360,000 children to be vaccinated between 2018 and 2020.

The injectable vaccine RTS,S could provide limited protection against a disease that killed 429,000 people worldwide in 2015, with 92 percent of victims in Africa and two-thirds of them children under five.

"The prospect of a malaria vaccine is great news. Information gathered in the pilot will help us make decisions on the wider use of this vaccine," said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO's regional director for Africa.

The vaccine should be used alongside other preventative measures such as bed nets, insecticides, repellents and anti-malarial drugs, the WHO said.

"Combined with existing malaria interventions, such a vaccine would have the potential to save tens of thousands of lives in Africa," Moeti said.

"This vaccine is a weapon amongst others, it is one of the tools at our disposal," she added.

The vaccine, also known as Mosquirix, has been developed by the British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in partnership with the PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, and the large-scale three-country pilot will test it on children aged five to 17 months.

The drug passed previous scientific testing -- including a phase three clinical trial between 2009 and 2014 -- and was approved for the pilot programme in 2015.

'Huge impact'

The aim of the trial is to assess the effectiveness of the vaccine as well the feasibility of its delivery to populations at risk as four successive doses must be given on a strict timetable.

The immunisation cycle is not in sync with routine childhood inoculations against diseases such as hepatitis, measles and meningitis, with injections required at five months, six months, seven months and two years.

Symptoms of malaria include fever, muscle pain and headache as well as vomiting and diarrhoea.

While RTS,S does not promise full protection against the mosquito-borne disease it is the most effective potential vaccine so far developed reducing the number of hospitalisations and blood transfusions.

Malaria episodes reduced by 40 percent in tests on 15,000 people in seven countries over five years of clinical trials, and could therefore save hundreds of thousands of lives.

"It's an efficacy rate which is quite low, but given the amount of affected people, the impact will be huge," said Mary Hamel, who is coordinating the vaccine's implementation programme.

"There will be other vaccines and they'll be more efficient, but in the meantime, this will have a significant influence."

Moeti emphasised that while the dream is "a vaccine that replaces everything", insecticide-treated bed nets remain the most effective protection against malaria, which remain, "at the moment, our strongest preventive weapon".

Kenya, Ghana and Malawi were selected for the trial because malaria rates are high and they have a long history of use of bed nets and other interventions.

The large-scale pilot is the latest step in decades of work seeking to eradicate malaria with the numbers dying falling nearly two-thirds since the turn of the century.

My breakthrough with hypertension

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All I could hear were voices sounding more like whispers saying: hold him, bring some water let her sit right, call the doctor and let us rush him to the hospital.

 I couldn’t tell precisely where I was at that moment. My breath was seizing.

I had a stiffened neck. I cannot describe the pain I felt in my chest. The only thing I could remember perfectly was waking up on a sickbay. I never knew how I encountered this. I am a business woman and dealing with money on daily basis. So it was only normal to do a lot of thinking and calculation. It was only absurd to hear the doctor say I have stop thinking. It was as if my life has been cut short yet I love my health. What can I do now that I have been diagnosed with high blood pressure? The doctor said my BP was on a very high side and that I needed a quick medical attention. Immediately, he handed a classic guide over to me which seemedto me like that written by Moses having the 10 Commandments in it. It was a hand full of restriction for me. Especially my diet. I couldn’t eat the things I wish for any longer. I couldn’t wake up at the middle of the night to do some serious calculation and thinking. I fed on meals without salt and could not breeze into eateries like I used to, since junks was now a taboo for me.

How more miserable could one’s life be? My husband was never fully around. He works in another state. And there was little or nothing my little two year old daughter could do to help.my mum came around and insisted I abandon my business and focus fully on my health since health they say is wealth. I paid regular visit to the doctor to see how far my BP is fairing. I got a hygrometer to regularly monitor my BP sometimes fair at least I am still hopeful when it read 160/100 which was still dangerous any way.

Staying home all through the day wasn’t helping out as I will have to go my supermarket to oversee how my sales manager was fairing I didn’t let the issues on ground and the economy down turn. I was ever determined to be happy and found my daughter as a source of motivation. My husband applied for a transfer from his place of work. But it wasn’t material sing on time so I had to relocate with my daughter down to his serving state, with no choice but to leave my business at the mercy of my manager. My husband geared me up and showed me more love, gave me needed attention and always retired early from work.

On the 3rd of April 2015 I received news that my mum died of stroke. I was aggrieved. I couldn’t help my reaction to this news. My BP rose up again. And my husband was scared of losing his mother-in-law and his wife. Thank God I survived it. But it felt as if I was heading toward stroke myself when I felt short breath, blur vision stiffened spine region.

 On my way down to the village, I saw a kit in the vehicle. Which at the back has an inscription ? I was being inquisitive because of my condition so I asked the driver what the kit was all about. The driver wasn’t really helpful since the kit was meant to be delivered. I told him about my condition so I asked for the recipient’s phone number.so I called. She told me how the supplements had worked perfectly for her mum.  I placed order for mine too and that was just the turn around. Today,I am healthy. I can eat my meals with salt, it is only sad that I got my miracle after my mum’s d

Mariah Carey visits Disneyland with her kids.

Mariah Carey visits Disneyland with her kids

Singer Mariah Carey who just broke up with boyfriend of 5 months, Bryan Tanaka, took her twin children, Monroe and Moroccan to Disneyland in California for a day out. She shared the photo above on her page and captioned it: "Disneyland with #demkids ❤️💙"