THE HARSH ECONOMY & OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS OUR HEALTH

The economic peril of our time is so glaring that the blind can make a powerful sketch of it but worse still is the fact that many of us are not actively thinking of how to pull through both in the short and long terms.

READ CHINWE'S HIV STORY AND LEARN AMAZING FACTS ABOUT HIV/AIDS

The Awareness of HIV/AIDS has been on for quite a while, particularly about the importance of voluntary screening for those who are exposed to the risk factors of HIV/AIDS but it seems young people are still reluctant to appreciate this message of caution.

In an interview with Chinwe, a 27year old graduate and civil servant, she narrated to Pharma-Guide Nigeria how she discovered she was HIV positive.

HIV/AIDS: Driving out Ignorance and its prices

At Pharma-Guide Nigeria, we begin our series of advocacy posts on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in a bid to drive out the syndromes of HIV-ignorance among our people.

We realize that the lack of knowledge about the disease pattern continues to challenge efforts daily made to check the spread of this disease.

Ignorance has led to stigmatization against infected persons and worst still, self-stigmatization has led to poor compliance to medications and hence an increase in mortality. It is within the arms of ignorance that HIV/AIDS as a disease becomes a person's worst nightmare.

We invite our readers to send in questions to pharmaguidenigeria@gmail.com, or comment under our posts and be sure to get answers and their identity and information will be kept confidential. Also follow us on Twitter @pharmaguidengr and on Facebook.com/pharmaguidenigeria

There are so many discoveries, health and drug information as well as hopeful stories to share about HIV/AIDS Disease, please be a part of this.

Pharm. Ebirim, Joseph O
CEO & Founder, Pharma-Guide Nigeria
+2348033999004
ebirimjoseph.o@gmail.com

Wow!!! CLEAN HANDS? Check out what the CEO OF PHARMA-GUIDE NIGERIA was found doing this morning

SAVING LIVES: CLEAN HANDS (May 5, 2016) - WHO's annual Global Call to action for Health Workers.
Today the World Health Organization calls all Health Workers and indeed all persons involved in formal and informal health care provision to take the task of maintaining CLEAN HANDS seriously in order to promote the PREVENTION OF AVOIDABLE DISEASES as well as REDUCING THE ECONOMIC AND GENERAL BURDEN OF ILL HEALTH in our society.

You can join the WHO May 5 celebration through http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/en

Guess who our PERSONALITY OF THE MONTH is...

ABOUT OUR WORTHY AWARDEE 

Not everyone in our society cares to encourage great ideas especially one coming from the younger generations; Having celebrated our first awardee Pharm. Chima Agnellus Ogbu, we present Dr. Benjamin U. Azubuike as another one of those Nigerians who value good ideas and believe in mentoring young focused and eager-to-succeed minds. 

"Di-clo-fe-nicle Or DICLOFENAC" See how a woman could have possibly put herself in trouble...

DICLOFENICLE VS DICLOFENAC – X-raying the Importance of proper writing, spelling and pronunciation of Drug names…

Madam, did the Doctor write out any drug for you to buy? I asked, as I assessed the medication profile of one of my patients at a female surgical and Orthopaedic ward. She quickly replied, Yes O! Diclo-fe-ni-cle!!! I have sent my sister to buy it for me? 
Nooo Ma! I replied politely with a smile, It is Di-clo-fe-nac and not Di-clo-fe-nicle. There is an antibiotic called Chloramphenicol and it is different from the analgesic Diclofenac. If she tells them Di-clo-fe-nicle, a careless dispenser who may not be a Pharmacist may issue out the wrong drug and this can lead to treatment failure as well as adverse effects.