The study aimed to determine performance and compare gaps in maternal and newborn health (MNH) services in urban and rural areas of Osun State, Nigeria, to inform decisions for improved services. This study involved 14 urban and 10 rural-based randomly selected PHC facilities. Using a Performance Needs Assessment framework, desired performances were determined by key stakeholders and actual per...

Farmers’ Empowerment has become an important part of the development agenda in the recent years. This study identified and analyzed the poverty status in terms of incidence, depth and severity among arable crop farmers in Osun State and compared the socio-economic characteristics of beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries of Farmers Empowerment Programme (FEP) in Osun State, Nigeria. The study made...

2013;26(4) S Afr J Clin Nutr Ogunkunle MO, BSc, MSc, Assistant Lecturer Department of Human Nutrition, University of Ibadan, Nigeria Oludele AS, BSc, Lecturer Department of Home Economics, Osun State College of Education, Ila Orangun, Nigeria Correspondence to: Ogunkunle Morenike, e-mail: [email protected]

BACKGROUND Loiasis is currently receiving attention as a disease of public health importance because of the possibility of increased risk of developing neurologic serious adverse event following mass ivermectin treatment against onchocerciasis in individual co-infected with Onchocerca volvulus and Loa loa. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Rapid assessment procedure for loiasis (RAPLOA) was cond...

Within ten days of incubation, freshly ripe tomato fruits (Ibadan local variety) obtained from a local market in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria had completely deteriorated and proteins which possessed cellulolytic activity were released. The enzyme was partially purified by a combination of ammonium sulphate precipitation, molecular exclusion chromatography and ion-exchange chromatography. The en...

The paper presents the results of an ethnobotanical survey of plants used in the treatment of asthma in Ogun, Osun and Oyo states. Twenty markets were visited and forty-six plants belonging to thirty-three different families were collected. The plants' families represented in the collection include, Amaryllidaceae, Apocynaceae, Combretaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Moraceae, Solanaceae, Zingiberaceae an...

BACKGROUND Provision of affordable eye care is one of the cardinal programs of the Osun State Government of Nigeria. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess the pattern of eye diseases presenting in a secondary health care facility based at Osogbo the State Capital. MATERIALS AND METHODS We reviewed the hospital records of all patients that were cared for at the eye clinic of th...