A public health parasitologist with several years experience in project monitoring and evaluation spanning from 2000 to 2017. An expert in filarial Lymphoedema management and have trained over 200 health workers across Nigeria on the simple hygiene foot care developed in Haiti.
Background: An understanding of the febrile illness experience of Nigerian nomadic Fulani is nece... more Background: An understanding of the febrile illness experience of Nigerian nomadic Fulani is necessary for developing an appropriate strategy for extending malaria intervention services to them. An exploratory study of their malaria illness experience was carried out in Northern Nigeria preparatory to promoting malaria intervention among them. Methods: Ethnographic tools including interviews, group discussions, informal conversations and living-in-camp observations were used for collecting information on local knowledge, perceived cause, severity and health seeking behaviour of nomadic Fulani in their dry season camps at the Gongola-Benue valley in Northeastern Nigeria. Results: Nomadic Fulani regarded pabboje (a type of “fever ” that is distinct from other fevers because it “comes today, goes tomorrow, returns the next”) as their commonest health problem. Pabboje is associated with early rains, ripening corn and brightly coloured flora. Pabboje is inherent in all nomadic Fulani for...
Background: An understanding of the febrile illness experience of Nigerian nomadic Fulani is nece... more Background: An understanding of the febrile illness experience of Nigerian nomadic Fulani is necessary for developing an appropriate strategy for extending malaria intervention services to them. An exploratory study of their malaria illness experience was carried out in Northern Nigeria preparatory to promoting malaria intervention among them. Methods: Ethnographic tools including interviews, group discussions, informal conversations and living-in-camp observations were used for collecting information on local knowledge, perceived cause, severity and health seeking behaviour of nomadic Fulani in their dry season camps at the Gongola-Benue valley in Northeastern Nigeria. Results: Nomadic Fulani regarded pabboje (a type of “fever ” that is distinct from other fevers because it “comes today, goes tomorrow, returns the next”) as their commonest health problem. Pabboje is associated with early rains, ripening corn and brightly coloured flora. Pabboje is inherent in all nomadic Fulani for...
The study which was conducted within Lokoja metropolis, aimed at assessing the rate of soil conta... more The study which was conducted within Lokoja metropolis, aimed at assessing the rate of soil contamination of school playgrounds, markets and recreational parks with Soil Transmitted Helminths (STH). A total of one hundred and sixty soil samples were collected from eight different sites and examined for various parasite stages using Zinc Sulphate floatation technique. The overall rate of soil contamination was 50.6% and the rate of contamination with STH was higher (80%-100%) in markets situated along the river bank whereas only one third (30%) of the samples collected from Mammy market and Lugard beach had STH. The species of STH encountered in the study were: Ascaris lumbricoides, Ascaris bovis, Taenia saginata, Strongyloides sp and Fasciola sp. The most frequently occurring STH were Ascaris lumbricoides, T.saginata and Fasciola sp. Mammy market contributed to the bulk of the Fasciola sp recovered from the soil samples. However, variations in distribution of STH across sites did no...
Procedures for health facility-based management of lymphoedema and adenolymphangitis (ADL) have p... more Procedures for health facility-based management of lymphoedema and adenolymphangitis (ADL) have proved very effective in some countries. Unfortunately, in resource-poor communities of Africa where health facilities are few, overburdened and inaccessible, an alternative approach is required. Community-based care (CC), patient care (PC) and health facility care (HC) approaches were compared. In the CC arm, communities were required to select one of their members for care-giving to its affected members, while in the PC, participants were allocated to groups under a leader with responsibility for care giving to group members. In HC, care was given by the nearest health facility. Caregivers from the three arms were trained and supplies were kept at the local government health office. At the sixth month of intervention, 325 lymphoedema and adenolymphangitis patients had been recruited into the study as participants. Within 12 months, compliance with hygiene practices increased from 29.4% to 62.6% and ADL episodes declined from 43.1% to 4.4% in the community designs arm and the cost on the health system was minimal. However, in the patient and health care arms, compliance and accessibility to supplies was severely affected by poor coordination, delay in resource collection leading to very minimal effect on lesions, odour, ADL frequency and duration. Participants abandoned the health facilities after the second visit. Community care approach was more culturally acceptable and effective for the management lymphoedema and ADL than other approaches.
The mortality of Anopheles mosquito exposed to varying concentrations of crude and oil extracts o... more The mortality of Anopheles mosquito exposed to varying concentrations of crude and oil extracts of Ocimum gratissimum was assayed. Erratic, non-directional and loss of balance during flight and finally culminating in death was observed in both crude and oil extracts of the plant. The lethal concentrations of crude and oil extract were determined to be 5.9g/50g of wax and 0.000068g/50g of wax respectively. The crude and oil extract were found to be effective in the control of Anopheles mosquito with the oil extract been more toxic. The mortality rate of the oil and crude extract of Ocimum gratissimum were observed to be dose dependent. The results indicate that both extracts have a toxic effect on the larvae but the highest mortalities were recorded in the oil extract.
Background: An understanding of the febrile illness experience of Nigerian nomadic Fulani is nece... more Background: An understanding of the febrile illness experience of Nigerian nomadic Fulani is necessary for developing an appropriate strategy for extending malaria intervention services to them. An exploratory study of their malaria illness experience was carried out in Northern Nigeria preparatory to promoting malaria intervention among them. Methods: Ethnographic tools including interviews, group discussions, informal conversations and living-in-camp observations were used for collecting information on local knowledge, perceived cause, severity and health seeking behaviour of nomadic Fulani in their dry season camps at the Gongola-Benue valley in Northeastern Nigeria. Results: Nomadic Fulani regarded pabboje (a type of “fever ” that is distinct from other fevers because it “comes today, goes tomorrow, returns the next”) as their commonest health problem. Pabboje is associated with early rains, ripening corn and brightly coloured flora. Pabboje is inherent in all nomadic Fulani for...
Background: An understanding of the febrile illness experience of Nigerian nomadic Fulani is nece... more Background: An understanding of the febrile illness experience of Nigerian nomadic Fulani is necessary for developing an appropriate strategy for extending malaria intervention services to them. An exploratory study of their malaria illness experience was carried out in Northern Nigeria preparatory to promoting malaria intervention among them. Methods: Ethnographic tools including interviews, group discussions, informal conversations and living-in-camp observations were used for collecting information on local knowledge, perceived cause, severity and health seeking behaviour of nomadic Fulani in their dry season camps at the Gongola-Benue valley in Northeastern Nigeria. Results: Nomadic Fulani regarded pabboje (a type of “fever ” that is distinct from other fevers because it “comes today, goes tomorrow, returns the next”) as their commonest health problem. Pabboje is associated with early rains, ripening corn and brightly coloured flora. Pabboje is inherent in all nomadic Fulani for...
The study which was conducted within Lokoja metropolis, aimed at assessing the rate of soil conta... more The study which was conducted within Lokoja metropolis, aimed at assessing the rate of soil contamination of school playgrounds, markets and recreational parks with Soil Transmitted Helminths (STH). A total of one hundred and sixty soil samples were collected from eight different sites and examined for various parasite stages using Zinc Sulphate floatation technique. The overall rate of soil contamination was 50.6% and the rate of contamination with STH was higher (80%-100%) in markets situated along the river bank whereas only one third (30%) of the samples collected from Mammy market and Lugard beach had STH. The species of STH encountered in the study were: Ascaris lumbricoides, Ascaris bovis, Taenia saginata, Strongyloides sp and Fasciola sp. The most frequently occurring STH were Ascaris lumbricoides, T.saginata and Fasciola sp. Mammy market contributed to the bulk of the Fasciola sp recovered from the soil samples. However, variations in distribution of STH across sites did no...
Procedures for health facility-based management of lymphoedema and adenolymphangitis (ADL) have p... more Procedures for health facility-based management of lymphoedema and adenolymphangitis (ADL) have proved very effective in some countries. Unfortunately, in resource-poor communities of Africa where health facilities are few, overburdened and inaccessible, an alternative approach is required. Community-based care (CC), patient care (PC) and health facility care (HC) approaches were compared. In the CC arm, communities were required to select one of their members for care-giving to its affected members, while in the PC, participants were allocated to groups under a leader with responsibility for care giving to group members. In HC, care was given by the nearest health facility. Caregivers from the three arms were trained and supplies were kept at the local government health office. At the sixth month of intervention, 325 lymphoedema and adenolymphangitis patients had been recruited into the study as participants. Within 12 months, compliance with hygiene practices increased from 29.4% to 62.6% and ADL episodes declined from 43.1% to 4.4% in the community designs arm and the cost on the health system was minimal. However, in the patient and health care arms, compliance and accessibility to supplies was severely affected by poor coordination, delay in resource collection leading to very minimal effect on lesions, odour, ADL frequency and duration. Participants abandoned the health facilities after the second visit. Community care approach was more culturally acceptable and effective for the management lymphoedema and ADL than other approaches.
The mortality of Anopheles mosquito exposed to varying concentrations of crude and oil extracts o... more The mortality of Anopheles mosquito exposed to varying concentrations of crude and oil extracts of Ocimum gratissimum was assayed. Erratic, non-directional and loss of balance during flight and finally culminating in death was observed in both crude and oil extracts of the plant. The lethal concentrations of crude and oil extract were determined to be 5.9g/50g of wax and 0.000068g/50g of wax respectively. The crude and oil extract were found to be effective in the control of Anopheles mosquito with the oil extract been more toxic. The mortality rate of the oil and crude extract of Ocimum gratissimum were observed to be dose dependent. The results indicate that both extracts have a toxic effect on the larvae but the highest mortalities were recorded in the oil extract.
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