April 27

• False Confidence, Rapid Births Among Causes of Maternal Mortality [analysis]

  Namibian

  DOMESTIC and wild animals routinely give birth - sometimes in the middle of the night - with no one in attendance and with no risks from the process to the mother animal or... Read more »

• WHO Accuses Unidentified Groups of Hampering Vaccination Campaigns

  Sudan Tribune

  The World Health Organisation (WHO) accused unidentified groups in Sudan of promoting rumours against its vaccination campaigns for special interests, Read more »

• MDR-TB Detected in Mash West

  The Herald

  AT least nine cases of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis have been detected in two districts of Mashonaland West province amid fears that the strain could be widespread. Read more »

April 26

• Babies Dying Gets Me Where It Hurts [staff blog]

  allAfrica

  "Eight thousand newborn babies will die during this conference." Read more »

• Building Health Systems From Scratch in Somalia

  IRIN

  Lul Mohamed, director of the paediatric ward at Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, treated five children after two bomb attacks killed 30 people on 14 April. "And... Read more »

• Shortages of New One-a-Day ARV Pills

  IRIN

  Just days into the rollout of fixed-dose combination (FDC) antiretrovirals (ARVs) by South Africa's HIV treatment programme - the world's largest - activists are raising fears of... Read more »

• Battling Malaria Without Drugs or Knowledge

  allAfrica

  The statistics are shocking. Over 300,000 Nigerians die from malaria each year – more than in any other country. An estimated 250,000 are children younger than five. Read more »

• South Sudan Prioritizes Immunization, Keeps Polio At Bay

  IRIN

  Through frequent door-to-door polio immunization campaigns, South Sudan has vaccinated more than 94 percent of children under age five against the disease, according to the... Read more »

• Children Bear Brunt of Crisis

  IRIN

  Sporadic armed clashes, looting of orphanages, recruitment into armed groups, and widespread school closures have made life perilous for children in the Central African Republic... Read more »

• Global Leaders Support New Six-Year Plan to Deliver a Polio-Free World by 2018

  Unicef

  Pledges announced will enable more than 2.7 billion children to be vaccinated Read more »

• World Malaria Day - Malaria Costs Nigeria Billions of Naira Each Year. What Does It Cost a Nigerian?

  Daily Trust

  Idris Omale makes his living, as a barber at a barbing salon in Mararaba, Nasarawa State. He doesn't own the salon where he's been working since being deported from Libya last... Read more »

• Using Technology to Save Lives At the Community Level

  IFRC

  The extraordinarily rapid spread of mobile telephone use in Africa is nothing but remarkable. It was in Africa in 2001 that mobile phones first outnumbered fixed lines, and by the... Read more »

• In Kenya, Technology Revolutionizes TB Management

  IRIN

  The use of technology is revolutionizing the way Kenya manages tuberculosis (TB). Through a computer- and mobile-phone based programme called TIBU, health facilities are able to... Read more »

• Africa - Malaria - Keeping a Crafty Killer On the Run [analysis]

  Premium Times

  Imagine that snake attacks were killing a person a minute. Or that it was dogs, or foxes or chickens that were killing three-quarters of a million people a year. Envision the... Read more »

• Smart Science in the Fight Against Malaria

  IRIN

  Malaria continues to be one of the world's deadliest diseases, infecting more than 200 million people and killing more than 660,000 - mostly African - children annually, according... Read more »

• Malaria - the Ongoing Fight Against an Old, Adaptive Foe

  ThinkAfricaPress

  Why has malaria proven so hard to beat? Read more »

• KR120 Million Set Aside for Malaria Fight

  Times of Zambia

  THE Zambian Government has provided KR120 million for malaria control programmes this year, Health Minister Joseph Kasonde has said. Read more »

• Stop Smoking to Reduce Risk of Pneumonia in HIV+

  Health-e

  HIV-positive smokers are at high risk of contracting bacterial pneumonia - a common and serious lung infection in people living with HIV - compared to their non-smoking... Read more »

• H7n9 - No Evidence of Person-to-Person Transmission

  Health-e

  Scientists in China have confirmed for the first time that the influenza A H7N9 virus has transmitted from birds—specifically, chicken at a wet poultry market—to... Read more »

• WHO Launches Emergency Response to Antimalarial Drug Resistance [press release]

  WHO

  On World Malaria Day, 25 April, WHO recognizes significant accomplishments in preventing and controlling malaria, including in high-burden countries in sub-Saharan Africa, but... Read more »

• Youth Learn About Their Sexual Health Rights

  Health-e

  A youth camp with the theme: “Together taking responsibility to end HIV infection; ‘No' to teenage pregnancy, ‘No' to discrimination, and ‘No' to gender... Read more »

• Clinics Without Family Planning Injections

  Health-e

  All twelve clinics in the Qaukeni sub-district here have had no family planning injections since December last year. Read more »

• UN-Backed Global Vaccine Summit Aims to Boost Efforts to Eliminate Polio

  UN News

  Polio eradication efforts are the focus of the United Nations-backed Global Vaccine Summit which also aims to protect millions of children from diseases like measles and tetanus... Read more »

• With Malaria Breakthrough in Sight, UN Officials Urge Greater Funding to Finish the Job

  UN News

  With the globally agreed target of reversing the incidence rate of malaria by 2015 now in sight, top United Nations officials today urged the international community to stay... Read more »

• Gauteng Health Blocks R6 Million Corruption [press release]

  SA Govt

  The Health MEC reported to the Gauteng Health Portfolio Committee that the department has recently, last week, blocked corrupt elements from syphoning R6 million from the... Read more »