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A day ahead of this year’s African Union summit in Libya, the 11th meeting of the forum of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) took place in the sweltering seaside town of Sirte. Reports emerging from those who attended threw up few surprises and some lingering concerns.
Although some countries within East Africa and the Horn region have scaled up their influenza A (H1N1) contingency plans, overall pandemic preparedness remains "relatively inactive", a UN agency has said, as the first cases were reported in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda.
A law against female circumcision will soon be enacted, President Yoweri Museveni has said.
Gayle Smith, a senior foreign policy adviser to President Obama and senior director for relief, stabilization and development at the National Security Council, addressed the closing plenary of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria's annual conference in Washington DC. Excerpts from her speech: Thank you so much for inviting me here. I want to start off by saying ...
Male circumcision has become an important factor in the spread of HIV in Tanzania, health officials have said, naming regions where it is not practised as the worst affected by the pandemic.
The 22 people who are taking their former employer to court for having been tested for HIV without their consent, wants to be compensated for the damage they suffered, said Linda Dumba Chicalu, project lawyer at the Legal Assistance Centre's (LAC) AIDS Law Unit, which will represent them in court.
Two member-states of the East African Community, Kenya and Uganda have confirmed cases of influenza A, H1N1 virus popularly known as swine flu.
Following allegations by rights watchdog Human Rights Watch and western media over a reproductive health bill that is currently before parliament, parliament has strongly denied the existence of articles of compulsory HIV testing and sterilisation.
HEALTH Minister Dr Richard Kamwi has categorically denied that HIV-positive women are "systematically coerced" to be sterilised at State hospitals.
MORE than 300 health workers in Ndola have been asked to exculpate themselves or face disciplinary charges for allegedly going on an illegal strike.
Not a single day, if not hour, passes by without a motor vehicle accident occurring in Namibia. The insurance industry is inundated with claims making that side of business rather unprofitable to say the least.
The risk of an anthrax outbreak in the flood stricken areas in the north motivated the Veterinary Association of Namibia to donate vaccines to the Directorate of Veterinary Services.
Stakeholders drawn from various institutions, organisations and agencies in the country on Wednesday brainstormed on the draft integrated national disability policy document 2009-2018 at the Paradise Suites Hotel during a day's validation forum organised by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.
The Gambia Armed Forces, in partnership with the US embassy in Banjul, yesterday, began a two-day HIV/AIDS sensitization seminar for personnel of The Gambia navy.
SERVICOM Office has enjoined the management of the Kuje General Hospital to adapt its services to meet the needs of residents in remote areas through the introduction of outreach services.
VISITING World Health Organisation (WHO) goodwill ambassador on leprosy, Yohei Sasakawa has called for the total end to stigmatisation and discrimination against leprosy patients.
What do you think about Tianshi, GNLD, NG4L and other food supplements such as "forever living products" that are flooding the drug market today?
AN indigenous-owned company, Phoenix Health International, based at the Bluffhill Industrial Park, has ventured into the production of sanitary pads that are being marketed under the Elsie brand.
THE Sokhaya tournament, a soccer event designed for women living with HIV and Aids, is now going places.
THE Department of Veterinary Services is facing serious financial and logistical challenges that have grossly crippled its capacity to carry out extension services and forced the bulk of its skilled personnel to search for greener pastures.
The SERVICOM Office has told the management of Kuje General Hospital to adapt its services to meet the needs of residents in remote areas of the area council, through the introduction of outreach services like ambulance services, health education and counselling for preventive care.
Detained Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), Ekiti State, Prince Niyi Adedipe, is lying critically ill at the University of Ado-Ekiti (UNAD) Teaching Hospital, after he collapsed on Tuesday, during his trial at an Ado-Ekiti High Court.
I write in connection with the article "How Shekarau Rescued Kano Pfizer Victims," printed in THIS DAY this past 10th of June. It is an outrageous misrepresentation of the facts for the author, Sule Ya'u Sule, to suggest that 200 patients died. The author is the Director of Media for the Kano Government. As such, he is fully aware of the facts of this case, including the fact that there were a ...
Former Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon (rtd), has said that the country is approaching final stage for the total eradication of guinea worm disease which is to pave way for Nigeria to receive the World Health Organisation's (WHO) certification that it had totally dealt with the disease.
THE dreaded swine flu virus, or Influenza A, has hit Uganda with the first case, a Briton, confirmed on Wednesday night.
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