Photo credit: Professor Bose Afolabi Photo source: ghgossip
Bose Afolabi who is professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Lagos, has been awarded a $2.5 million research grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. With this grant, Ms Afolabi will lead a multicentre study which will run the research for three years (November 1, 2020 to October 31, 2023).
The research centre will research anaemia among pregnant women. As she told her project name “Intravenous Versus Oral Iron for Iron Deficiency Anaemia in Pregnant Nigerian Women (IVON): a randomised controlled trial.”
This research will be done in 10 hospitals within Lagos and Kano States and it’ll recruit a complete of 1,056 women at 20-32 weeks fetal age, who are suffering from anaemia at the antenatal clinics of the hospitals,
With the international collaborations and partnerships which the study will facilitate between UNILAG and other universities in the US and Europe, it’ll also contribute to local human capacity development with the sponsorship of junior faculty for postgraduate training.
Data source: Premium Times
Nigeria’s leading music figure and vocalist, Cobhams Asuquo, known for his singing and production said…
Following a mixed reaction from the South African community representatives, Khoi and San, the Cape…
Mitigating the process and service barriers in African rail transportation, the digital disruption has transformed…
Kais Saied, the Tunisian president has said in his speech that he will allow the…
You know the credibility of an ingredient when it’s plastered all over bottles and jars…
Cyclone Gombe that flooded large areas of central and northern Mozambique is consistently leading to…
This website uses cookies.