Emeritus Professor

VALEDICTORY LECTURE

“WOMEN’S HEALTH: A NATION’S WEALTH” 23 FEBRUARY 2009

In this Lecture, I reflected on the issue of gender-based discrimination against women and drew a parallel between Women’s Health and a Nation’s Wealth. I averred that women contribute substantially to national development and wealth creation in nations where they are regarded as important members of society and consequently, their peculiar health needs, especially those associated with their reproductive life, taken seriously. In such societies, I indicated, women are usually assimilated into the main stream of the body polity of the communities and they are not made to suffer much discrimination on account of their gender.