Every 19th June is celebrated to create awareness on my son’s ….my daughter’s condition. The theme for this year’s celebration is Shine the light on Sickle cell with the use of hydroxyurea: stop stigmatization. My son my daughter: I have flexible round red blood cells (RBCs) which are able to move through my small blood …
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Due to pervasive misconceptions, ignorance, violence and discrimination against people with albinism, United Nations’ General Assembly adopted resolution establishing June 13th as International Albinism Awareness Day (IAAD). This awareness will facilitate the albinism advocacy. The theme for this year’s awareness creation is Strength Beyond All Odds. As the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres said There …
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The home with countless plants; both young and matured from North to South, and from West to East. The Green home Is always hospitable, and a place I always love to be. So relaxing and focusable, unexplainable it is. Very refreshing: breathing fresh air (oxygen), all because of my green home. I produce bad air …
As technology advances, with enjoyable social media, there comes with emerging health implications like the TEXT NECK SYNDROME. Text Neck Syndrome is not an official medical diagnosis but commonly used term for repetitive stress injury to the neck spine which may be as result of excessive texting/ use of mobile phone or computer in a …
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Every Seventh April has been chosen as The World Health Day. The genesis of this celebration came about during the First Health Assembly in 1948 which came to light since 1950. The celebration aimed to create awareness of a specific health theme to highlight a priority area of concern for the World Health Organization. The …
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Most people and even policy makers ignore me, there is Long stigmatisation of me, leading to inattention of me. I lack visible symptoms. One trillion US dollars is lost as a result of the collective failure to address me. World Health Organization (WHO) saw my importance, hence declared every 3rd March as a day to …
My journey to the vaccine city started since 1796 where the first small pox vaccine was conceptualised. This journey has never been easy and still will never be easy now and future. Along the journey, many pregnant women exposed to Rubella popularly known as German measles had their children suffered crippling birth defects, and this …
LGBTQI: THE LAW OR THE HEALTH? LGBTQI: THE LAW OR THE HEALTH? — Read on kwasiomaro.health.blog/2021/02/23/lgbtqi-the-law-or-the-health/
Recently, after news broke out that an office has been opened for LGBTQ in Ghana, there have been serious debates in the Ghanaian media as well as social media space as to whether LGBTQ is an accepted social behaviour or lawful act . For both Bismark Kwabla Kpobi and Philemon Aning-Antoh who are Mental Health …
Near thirteen months now, the world and its people have been tormented psychologically and physically by the deadly biological enemy, COVID-19. In the genesis of COVID-19, there were perceived threats such as perceived susceptibility to the deadly disease but behavioral evaluation facilitated by perceived barriers such as cost, lifestyle, sacrifices and others influenced the health …
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Kwasi Omaro