Nno, Welcome, Ola,

I visited Nigeria in 2006 and was bitten by a bug called High Infant Mortality Rate. I read about the issue in a local news paper in Abuja. This information was buttressed while on holidays in my father's village (Nnewi); an elderly woman informed my cousin and I of 2 infant deaths that Christmas week from childhood preventable illnesses. I was aghast. I sat down, dumfounded, then a flashback of I (as a child), at the end of civil war, women carrying their dying babies of kwashiorkor to my father's compound seeking relief; food, water, medicine anything to help their infants. In 2007 I returned to finish my graduate school in Public Health and my community health class provided a platform to research infant mortality rate. Hence, I wrote a paper on it, and proposed a three year strategic pyramid solution.

This blog is about being part of the solution:
(a) bringing the issue to bear
(b) envisioning seamless integrated strategies
(c) visualizing adapting innovative, sustainable solutions to mitigate variables that give rise to high infant deaths.

At issue is the continent of Africa. Some may say I gave money to Africa, yes you did but in reality you gave money for a project in Mali, or Sierra Leone or Liberia. That is 3 countries out of 50. From my research, high infant morality rate in SSA is attracting international, national and individual researchers seeking effective methods in implementing sustainable measures or solutions towards reversing the numbers. I am suggesting that more man power is needed to combat the problem at least in Nigeria.

http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/pdf/MDG_FS_4_EN.pdf



Friday, November 12, 2010

Charlie Rose and Realism

My aunty always says "America is a very organized society." Last night I caught Charlie Rose on my local PBS channel KCET, and there were his guests David Walker (Peterson Foundation) and Mr. Friedstein (sp) or Frieden (Harvard) talking about fiscal responsibility and tough choices that needs to be made.  According to Mr. Walker, "the president has to lead", regardless of whether or not the bipartisan panel reaches the 14 out of 18 votes needed for agreement. The country is waiting for the president to lead, continued Mr. Walker.  But one would not have known that from the midterm election, I might add.  On the other hand may be Mr. Walker knows something I do not know, since I am neither an economist nor a politician. After all he is of the Peterson Foundation. So, I give him the benefit of the doubt, and believe that the country is waiting for President Obama to lead. The New York Times echoed a similar theme this morning "Waiting for the President" www.nytimes.com/opinion  to lead.  I read Paul Krugman's "The Hijacked Commission", I am still LOL, and next to it was David Brooks "preserving American pre-eminence" beautiful piece of writing, especially his last sentence.  Let me say, I appreciate Mr. D. Brooks style of writing, shall we say his prose and command of the language.
Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)