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.
PARLIAMENT yesterday passed a Bill prohibiting female genital mutilation (FGM).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Chevron Nigeria Limited has simultaneously launched and conducted a three - day training programme for peer educators on HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis.
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.
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.
THE Government plans to construct four hospitals in Kampala starting next financial year, the health state minister has said.
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.
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.
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).
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.
"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..."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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