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In the build up towards World AIDS Day, the North West Health and Social Development Department will be taking its HIV and AIDS awareness campaign to farming communities.
Methodist Mission Agricultural Programme (MMAP) and Njawara Agricultural Training Centre (NATC) recently held series of sensitisation meetings in the North Bank on health and hygiene for disaster victims and communities at large, particularly on the signs and symptoms of cholera and other communicable diseases.
The hospital where President Umaru Yar'adua is undergoing medical treatment is King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSHRC) located in the port city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
HIV positive mothers on antiretroviral drug can exclusively breast feed their babies for a period of six months without passing the virus to the children, the Director General of the National Agency for the Control of AIDS, Professor John Idoko has said.
President Umaru Yar'adua is not in a severe health condition as being rumoured and he is getting better after being attended to by doctors in Saudi Arabia, Nigeria's ambassador to the Kingdom Abdullahi Garba Aminci told Daily Trust yesterday.
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Galaxy Backbone to enhance effective communication with all its centres.
The Federal Government yesterday approved the implementation of the Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS) for all medical workers ending the alleged discrepancies in the payment of salaries.
One case of swine flu (H1N1) was recently recorded in Nigeria when the Federal Ministry of Health announced that a 9-year old American girl residing in Lagos was infected with it. A statement signed by the ministry revealed that the victim showed signs of the ailment, which had symptoms of fever, sore throat, nasal congestion and nausea and was rushed to the American embassy clinic.
Members of the HIV/AIDS community group of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Taraba State have organised an HIV/AIDS sensitisation campaign for people in Kona community in Jalingo Local government of Taraba state.
There was anxiety yesterday over the state of health of President Umaru Yar'Adua who is currently undergoing medical treatment in Saudi Arabia.
The hit television programme; "Big Brother Africa Revolution" and African private sector companies are supporting the Global Fund's fight against malaria by contributing funds from a high-profile awareness raising campaign, undertaken as part of the United Against Malaria campaign.
Senate yesterday insisted that there was nothing yet in the health of President Umaru Yar'Adua that suggests that he has become incapacitated to perform his official functions.
The federal government has approved the implementation of a Consolidated Health Salary Structure (CONHESS) for medical health workers in federal medical agencies.
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Galaxy Backbone, an ICT firm, for ICT connectivity for the effective implementation and monitoring of Midwives Service Scheme (MSS).
Failure to agree a new UN climate deal in December will bring a "global health catastrophe", say 18 of the world's professional medical organisations.
To commemorate the World AIDS Day on December 1, The New Vision, in conjunction with the parliamentary committee on HIV/AIDS, will award individuals who have played a remarkable role in the fight against HIV in their communities. Profiles of the people nominated by the public will be published everyday until the end of November.
THIS season of Big Brother Africa is getting involved in the fight against malaria in Africa. As part of this week's task, housemates are getting to the nitty-gritty of Africa's biggest challenges.
OVER 1,515 people in Pallisa district, including the Minister of Health, Dr. Stephen Mallinga, have been tested for HIV. This was during a function at Butebo Health Centre IV in Butebo county on Monday.
THE Government has suspended the supply of drugs to about 500 health centres.
Children yesterday appealed to the government to increase the provision and access to antiretroviral drugs in order to accelerate HIV/aids treatment.
The rate of new HIV infections has slowly declined in sub-Saharan Africa, but the region remains the area of the world most heavily hit by the epidemic and it accounts for nine of every 10 new infections among children.
The rate of new HIV infections worldwide has declined by 17 percent in the past eight years and prevention efforts can take some of the credit, according to the annual UNAIDS update on the epidemic released on 24 November.
ZIMBABWE will receive about US$180 million from the Global Fund to Fight HIV and Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, with the first phase of the grant expected in January next year.
OVER 100 Government health centres listed by the Ministry of Health as recipients of drugs and funding are non-existent, according to investigations by the National Medical Stores (NMS).
The wife to Kenyan Prime Minister, Ida Odinga, has called on all nations to boost the nutritional needs of their populations, especially that of mothers and infants, as a strategy of achieving sustainable development.
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