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Healthy population: African leaders task on building health capacity
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By Chioma Obinna
As Merck Foundation 8th Merck Africa- Asia Luminary conference opens, African leaders have been urged to focus on building the healthcare capacity as well as training more healthcare providers in different specialities to keep the citizens healthy and productive.
Making the call during the opening ceremony of the 3-Day conference with over 2000 participants from 70 countries, President of Zambia, Dr Edgar Chagwa Lungu, noted that the population of Africa grows to almost 1.4 billion noted that the critical role of our health workers has been appreciated and re-emphasized by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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About Merck More Than a Mother campaign Merck More Than a Mother is a strong movement that aims to empower infertile women through access to information, education and change of mind-sets. This powerful campaign supports governments in defining policies to enhance access to regulated, safe, effective and equitable fertility care solutions. It defines interventions to break the stigma around infertile women and raises awareness about infertility prevention, management and male infertility. In partnership with African First Ladies, Ministries of Health, Information, Education & Gender, academia, policymakers, International fertility societies, media and art, the initiative also provides training for fertility specialists and embryologists to build and advance fertility care capacity in Africa and developing countries.
The award comes with a prize of $500 and one-year online MasterClass training.
Kelej said: “I am very happy to inform you that your work has been selected by our ‘Merck Foundation More Than A Mother’ Awards Committee to win the first award in the Print Category for West African countries for your exceptional coverage that helped to create awareness about infertility and breaking the stigma around it.
“We sincerely appreciate your influential media work that was instrumental in raising awareness on infertility prevention and breaking stigma in your country and rest of Africa, hence, I am pleased to additionally reward you to become ’Merck Foundation Alumni’, and provide you with one year access to an online educational training programme called MasterClass.”
THISDAY reporter, Martins Ifijeh, has emerged the winner of the ‘Merck More than a Mother’ Africa Media Recognition Award 2020 from West African countries
He won in the Online Category with his entry: ‘Heavy Metals and the Pain of Infertility’. The first and second runner ups in the category are Never Lomo of New Public Trust from Liberia and Chinedu Asaju of The Cable Newspaper.
Two other Nigerians; Chioma Obinna of Vanguard and Abubakar Sulaiman of Sawaba 104.9fm won in the Print and Radio category respectively
Announcing the award weekend, the CEO, Merck Foundation, Senator Rasha Kelej, said Ifijeh’s story was instrumental in raising awareness on infertility prevention and breaking its stigma in Nigeria and across Africa.