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  • December 11
  • New Vision Uganda: Seven Held Over Drugs Theft

    A search for stolen Government drugs in private clinics yesterday netted five people in the Bwaise and Kawempe suburbs of Kampala, while two others were arrested for stealing delivery kits in Mbarara.

  • New Vision Uganda: Parliament Passes Female Genital Mutilation Bill

    PARLIAMENT yesterday passed a Bill prohibiting female genital mutilation (FGM).

  • Daily Champion Nigeria: NHIS' Road Map to Rural Healthcare

    One strategic measurement of the efficiency and indeed effectiveness of the public health system is the number of people who have access to quality healthcare. Access to quality primary healthcare in rural communities in the country is therefore a key success indicator in healthcare delivery.

  • Daily Champion Nigeria: Obesity is Gateway to Major Diseases - Dr. Aiyesimoju

    IN a bid to ensure good health for all, a medical consultant has warned against the dangers of obesity, noting that it is a gateway to other deadly diseases and sudden death.

  • Daily Champion Nigeria: Ebonyi State Disburses N.6 Billion to Private and Mission Hospitals

    Determined to ensure the availability of adequate healthcare facilities to the people and at affordable rate, the Ebonyi State government has disbursed N.6 billion to six rural private health institutions in the State.

  • Daily Champion Nigeria: Polio Virus Has Declined in Nation By 80% - WHO

    The Representative of the World Health Organization in Nigeria, Dr. Peter Eriki has announced that the number of children in the high risk states in Nigeria who has been paralyzed by the wild polio virus in 2009 has declined by over 80% as compared to the same period in 2008.

  • Daily Champion Nigeria: Group Plans Cervical Cancer Screening Centres

    Mass Medical Mission (MMM), a faith-based organisation on Sunday said it planned to establish cervical cancer screening centres in all the 774 Local Government Areas of the country by 2010.

  • Daily Champion Nigeria: Chevron Tackles HIV/Aids - Provides Training for NGOs and Others

    Chevron Nigeria Limited has simultaneously launched and conducted a three - day training programme for peer educators on HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis.

  • Daily Champion Nigeria: Gov's Wife Pledges to Held Physical Challenged Persons

    Non-Governmental Organisation in Bauchi State, Challenge Your Disability Initiative (CYDI), has reiterated its commitment to the welfare of the physically-challenged persons in the country, vowing to continue to provide succour for them.

  • Daily Champion Nigeria: U.S. Prays for Yar'Adua

    United States of America (USA) yesterday backed prayers and good wishes for the speedy recovery of President Umaru Yar'Adua, even as it said the country was looking forward to a free and fair election in 2011.

  • New Vision Uganda: Kampala to Get Four Hospitals

    THE Government plans to construct four hospitals in Kampala starting next financial year, the health state minister has said.

  • The Herald Zimbabwe: Group Invests in Medical Centre

    A GROUP of local investors has invested in a state-of-the-art medical centre in Avondale that is set to open its doors to the public next week.

  • December 10
  • IRIN Somalia: Medical School Bombing Prompts Backlash

    This month's deadly bombing of a medical school's graduation ceremony in Somalia will likely reduce the popularity of the country's main Islamist insurgency, despite the group's denial of involvement, say analysts.

  • PlusNews South Africa: Mother-Child HIV Infection Cut

    The percentage of HIV-positive mothers who pass the virus to their newborn babies in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal Province has dropped by nearly two-thirds since dual antiretroviral (ARV) therapy was introduced for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT).

  • Nation Kenya: Alarm as Half of Women With HIV Abused

    Half of Kenyan women living with HIV/Aids have been physically abused in the past year, according to a new study that highlights the worrisome link between the scourge and violence against women.

  • IPS Zimbabwe: 'Sexual Terror' Cited in the Country

    "When the tenth man finished raping me they said they were going to rape my daughter. I cried out but I could not even stand up at this time...they raped my daughter (while) I was there and I couldn't do anything to stop them. My daughter was five years old..."

  • Health-e South Africa: Making Country a Nation That Tests - Living With Aids # 416

    President Jacob Zuma's announcement last week that he will take a public HIV test will go a long way in boosting a massive HIV testing campaign that will start early next year. This will encourage all South Africans to know their status.

  • This Day Nigeria: State of Primary Health Care Centres [editorial]

    Part of the irony of our national development is that rather than situations improving, some key sectors tend to deteriorate. One such instance is in the health sector where the once robust primary health care system is almost completely extinct now.

  • Leadership Nigeria: Yar'Adua's Illness - Governance Crippled in Bauchi

    The ill health of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, who is receiving treatment in far away Saudi Arabia, is taking a toll on the act of governance in Bauchi State as the governor, Isa Yuguda now shuttles between Abuja and Bauchi, a development that has slowed down activities at the government house over the last weeks.

  • Vanguard Nigeria: '60 Percent of HIV/Aids Victims in Country 'Re Women'

    Chairman of the Bauchi State Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis/Leprosy and Malaria (BACATMA), Rilwanu Muhammad, has said of about three million people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, 60 per cent are women just as majority of them live in the rural areas thereby making it very difficult for them to access adequate medical attention.

  • Daily Champion Nigeria: Luth Begins Free Lip Surgery

    A total of 119 students have ben admitted into the school of Health Information Management of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) Idi-Araba, Lagos just as the health institution is kicking off a free lip and palate surgery exercise this week.

  • PlusNews Kenya: Stavudine to Be Phased Out - Gradually

    Kenyan patients on stavudine, an antiretroviral drug in widespread use, which the UN World Health Organization (WHO) wants phased out, will have to wait a little longer to be put on alternative medication.

  • Vanguard Nigeria: Professionals Call for Equity in Healthcare Planning

    NIGERIA health professionals have called for equity in the healthcare planning of the country, saying unless the country applies equity in its health planning, Nigeria will be far from attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015.

  • Observer Uganda: Stress Management, the Key to a Good Life [opinion]

    Recently I escorted one of my aunts to visit her children in boarding school. Along the way, her 8-year-old daughter broke the silence and said, "Mum, I'm so stressed!" This sent all the occupants in the car laughing; wondering what could be working the child up.

  • Daily Observer Gambia: Locals' Health is Our Concern - Dr Alfred Guerra

    Dr. Alfred Guerra, a Radiology specialist and head of the Cuban doctors at the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital (RVTH) has described the good health of the people of The Gambia as the Cuban doctors' concern and priority.


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