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AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine

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AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine

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Africa: Women Struggle to Secure Land Rights

Felitus Kures is a widow living in Kapchorwa, northeastern Uganda. Her husband's death left her solely responsible for their children.

Rwanda: Better Health At the Click of a Button

Medical records and other health information can now be easily shared via mobile phones and other modern communications technologies.

Zambia: Gender Violence Hampers Aids Fight

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: Country to Work With UN to Eliminate Female Genital Mutilation

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).

Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report

Global Challenges

Africa: Male Circumcision And Reducing Multiple Partners the Way to Go

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.

Nigeria: N300m Scam - Senate Rejects Iyabo's Report

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.

Uganda: HIV Cases Soar Among Kampala Sex Workers

The prevalence of HIV/Aids among women and girls involved in commercial sex in Kampala is on the rise.

Benin: The End of River Blindness

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.

South Africa: Smoke Signals

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.

Uganda: NGO Takes HIV Tests to Homes in Rukungiri District

Married couples have been asked to embrace the voluntary HIV testing services made available free of charge at their homes in Rukungiri.

Africa: Toll-Free Mobile Service to Give Rural Africa Access to Medics

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.

Africa: Nine New U.S. Ambassadors Nominated

Nine nominees to serve as U.S. ambassadors in Africa appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday for confirmation.

Africa: Daily HIV/Aids Report

Politics and Policy

Liberia: Lawmaker Wants Health Workers Abandon Strike

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.

Uganda: Virus Kills 29 in Kitgum

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.

Uganda: Sekandi Tells MPs to Give Blood

BY donating blood, you can save many lives, Speaker of Parliament Edward Sekandi told MPs.

Namibia: ICT Transforming Health Sector

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.

Namibia: HIV/Aids a Cash Cow for NGOs

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.

Namibia: 'Teach Children Abstinence'

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.

Ghana: Would NHIS Listen to DCE Doomson?

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.

Zambia: Fake Doctor Faces Arrest

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.

Nigeria: Baby Kehinde Slams N500m Suit on UCH

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.

Angola: Cunene - Province to Receive 13 Cuban Physicians This Month

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.

Angola: Luanda Counts On Five New Health Centres in May

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.

Zimbabwe: Hospital Mortuary Full

Chitungwiza Central Hospital mortuary is full to the brim with authorities attributing the situation to an increase in the number of unclaimed bodies.

Nigeria: Obasanjo-Bello's Absence Stalls Progress On National Health Bill

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 .

Nigeria: Yuguda Inaugurates Committee On Hospital

Bauchi State Government has inaugurated a seven-man committee to look into the possibility of establishing a teaching hospital.

Southern Africa: SADC to Intensify Malaria Interventions

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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