May 19
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WHO Representatives Laud Eritrea's Accomplishments in Combating Malaria - Report
Shabait
Reports indicated that Eritrea's accomplishments in combating malaria have been applauded by WHO representatives at a joint meeting with the Ministry of Health that was conducted... Read more »
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Some Challenges of Being a Maasai Woman
Daily News
The Maasai tribe of Kenya and Tanzania has long been a beacon of traditional culture to many Africans - and for Westerners on safari through Maasai Mara, Samburu or Amboseli, a... Read more »
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Need to Improve Kasulu Maternity Wards
Daily News
Kasulu District Hospital labour ward caters to more than 4,500 deliveries per year in a single room with four beds, facing problems when compared to a hospital in Sweden which has... Read more »
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World Lung Foundation Offers Worthy Service in Maternal Health [interview]
Daily News
THE initial and continuing support of the World Lund Foundation maternal health project in the country has come from New York based Bloomberg Philanthropies. Read more »
May 18
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Food and Nutrition Policy Welcome
The Herald
The launch of the Food and Nutrition Security Policy by President Mugabe on Thursday is a move in the right direction for the nation. Read more »
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The Herald
GOVERNMENT is expected to impose medical tariffs for all consultations in two weeks time after service providers and medical aid societies failed to come up with an agreed tariff.... Read more »
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The Herald
Teenagers in the 15-19 years age group constitute a quarter of institutional maternal deaths recorded between January and July this year, a Government analysis has revealed.... Read more »
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Siamese Twins Develop Pneumonia
New Vision
The Siamese twins admitted at Mulago hospital have developed pneumonia. Read more »
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Long Queues Overwhelm Vaccination Centres
New Vision
Several health centres across the country are still grappling with lack of vaccines for immunisation against child killer diseases, the Ministry of Health has confirmed. Read more »
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New Vision
In Chinua Achebe's book, Things Fall Apart, during one harvest, Okonkwo asked for seedlings from Nwakibie, a great man of the village. Although he had turned down similar requests... Read more »
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Eat Insects! Yes, but Beware...
Daily News
INDIGENOUS knowledge should be put in the forefront in the wake of a recent United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) report that advocates for people to include... Read more »
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Funding Nutrition - a Moral Imperative, an Effective Investment
Unicef
An international conference to fight child malnutrition called by UNICEF ended today in Paris with a call to hasten world progress on child nutrition and the funding for it. Read more »
May 17
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Easing Africa's Pain - the Need for Palliative Care [analysis]
ThinkAfricaPress
With the prevalence of chronic diseases rapidly increasing in Africa, expanding palliative care will be essential to help patients live with dignity. Read more »
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China-Africa - Towards More Sustainable Health Care? [analysis]
ThinkAfricaPress
While the West's health diplomacy in Africa tends to be vertical and targeted at diseases, China's has typically been horizontal, infrastructure-based and recipient-led. Read more »
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Study Finds Little Progress in Meeting Demand for Contraception [press release]
The Guttmacher Institute
A new study by the Guttmacher Institute finds that within the developing world, the poorest countries are lagging far behind higher-income developing countries in meeting the... Read more »
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Health Service Providers Warned
New Vision
State minister for primary health care, Sarah Opendi, has asked health service providers to make their messages clear to the public to reduce risks of health infections in society. Read more »
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Ten Receive Free Open Heart Surgeries
New Vision
Ten children with heart problems have undergone free open heart surgeries at Uganda heart institute Mulago. Read more »
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The Herald
THE national nutrition situation is of major concern to Government as one in three children is chronically malnourished, President Mugabe has said. Read more »
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Naftali Hamata: The Iconic Medical Doctor and Freedom Fighter (1944 …) [editorial]
New Era
NAFTALI Hamata is a household name within the medical fraternity in Namibia. However, it is hardly known that Hamata is one of the patriotic sons of the soil whose contribution to... Read more »
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South Sudan: MSF Hospital Destroyed After Deliberate Attack - 100,000 Left Without Healthcare [press release]
MSF
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) strongly condemns the destruction at its hospital in Pibor town, South Sudan, purposefully conducted to render the hospital inoperative. This deprives... Read more »
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Children Treated After Attack in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo [press release]
MSF
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is treating survivors of an attack on Mpeti in the North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read more »
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Mopani Worms Good for Your Health
New Era
Namibian dieticians are in agreement with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation recommendations this week that eating nutritious insects could help fight obesity. Read more »
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MSF Hospital Targeted and Purposefully Damaged to Render It Inoperative [press release]
MSF
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) strongly condemns the destruction at its hospital in Pibor town, South Sudan, purposefully conducted to render the hospital... Read more »
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Let's Take a Stand, Cancer Can Be Beated [editorial]
The Herald
Many people have been astounded by the decision of prominant American actress Angeline Jolie to undergo radical surgery because she found she has a gene that gives her an 87... Read more »
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New Kibera Clinic Increases Access to Free Medical Care [press release]
MSF
The international humanitarian medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today inaugurates a new clinic in Kibera South. Read more »
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