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AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine
Felitus Kures is a widow living in Kapchorwa, northeastern Uganda. Her husband's death left her solely responsible for their children.
Medical records and other health information can now be easily shared via mobile phones and other modern communications technologies.
Maria is living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) are now more widely available and are supposed to make her life better.
Djibouti has become the first country to launch a joint programme by United Nations agencies to move more quickly to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM).
Global Challenges
Top researchers have called for male circumcision and the reduction of multiple sexual partnerships to become the cornerstone of HIV prevention in Africa if a significant impact is to be made on the HIV epidemic.
THE Senate, yesterday, turned down the National Health Bill facilitated by the Federal Ministry of Health with funds from the N300 million unspent 2007 budget of the Ministry.
The prevalence of HIV/Aids among women and girls involved in commercial sex in Kampala is on the rise.
Twenty years ago Benin was among the countries in West Africa most affected by endemic river blindness. Today the disease, which causes blindness and chronic skin irritation and is blamed for stunting economic growth of the populations it affects, has been almost completely eradicated.
TOBACCO presents the government with a conundrum. On one hand, products such as cigarettes and cigars are legitimate, and the tobacco giants are corporate citizens who create jobs, pay their taxes, support social responsibility programmes and contribute in no small measure to the fiscus. But offsetting these benefits is the simple fact that tobacco kills.
Married couples have been asked to embrace the voluntary HIV testing services made available free of charge at their homes in Rukungiri.
A toll-free mobile service being launched in selected remote areas in Africa promises to save lives by connecting people with emergency medical cases to health personnel.
Nine nominees to serve as U.S. ambassadors in Africa appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday for confirmation.
Politics and Policy
The House Committee on Health and Social Welfare is appealing to medical workers to abandon their strike action which has paralyzed activities at the G.W. Harley Hospital in Sanniquellie, Nimba County.
AT least 29 people have died of Hepatitis E and over 1,384 have contracted the virus in five sub-counties in Kitgum district, the LC5 chairman has said.
BY donating blood, you can save many lives, Speaker of Parliament Edward Sekandi told MPs.
Africa should spruce up its e-health services to ensure improved access to health services as a fundamental human right, argued delegates at the IST-Africa Conference in Windhoek, New Era reports.
Some non-governmental organisations (NGOs) yesterday came under fire when HIV/AIDS activists accused them of squandering money from donors meant for the fight against the disease on non-core areas that do not directly benefit sufferers.
A two-day conference on Namibian women leaders against HIV/AIDS started in the capital yesterday with First Lady Penehupifo Pohamba urging all women in leadership positions to be pro-active in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
When the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government introduced the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) at the national level, after the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government had experimented with it on a pilot basis, many were the Ghanaians who were sceptical about its success. As a result of this mentality, most people refused to register with the scheme. But, after continuous education, Ghanaians seem to have now accepted it.
A LUSAKA magistrate's court has issued a bench warrant against a Lusaka teacher who is charged with impersonating a medical doctor and allegedly administering fake HIV/AIDS drugs to unsuspecting Lusaka residents at a fee of K5 million.
Kehinde Babalola , the baby girl whose right arm was amputated by the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan, Oyo state has sued the management of the hospital for N500 million for extreme negligence , reckless treatment and violations of her fundamental rights by the staff of the hospital.
Thirteen Cuban physicians, out of the 20 initially expected, will arrive this month in the southern Cunene Province to reinforce medical assistance in this region, on Friday announced the local health department director, Eduardo Haiumba.
Luanda will get this month five new health centres under a rehabilitation programme of the local government to spread the sanitary network to the surroundings of the capital city, meant to improve medical assistance, ANGOP has learnt.
Chitungwiza Central Hospital mortuary is full to the brim with authorities attributing the situation to an increase in the number of unclaimed bodies.
The continued absence of the Chair, Senate Committee on Health, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello from the Senate may have rubbed off negatively on the progress of the National Health Bill as the upper legislative chamber yesterday rejected the report on the Bill on the grounds that it was poorly prepared, thus stalling the clause-by-clause consideration of the bill .
Bauchi State Government has inaugurated a seven-man committee to look into the possibility of establishing a teaching hospital.
Countries in the Sadc region will submit a joint proposal seeking funding for malaria interventions to the Global Fund to Fight HIV and Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria Round Eight.
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