A Milnerton mother is in a race against time to prevent Groote Schuur Hospital from stopping her son's life-saving dialysis treatment.
Dr. Alieu Gaye a renowned physician and specialist in diabetes has observed in this exclusive interview with Health and Nutrition Bantaba that urbanization, Westernization and sedentary life style are among the risk factors of diabetes. "Diabetes is more of a peri urban disease in The Gambia and the same trend happens in other countries,' he observed. Read to find out.
Although leprosy is among diseases long thought to have been eradicated, Msambweni district stands out as a place where this is not the case.
The Ministry of Health has commended the exemplary conduct of Dr. Abbas Adam, a neurosurgeon, who returned to Ghana after his specialised training in Germany to take up a post at the Tamale Teaching Hospital.
An FCT strategic healthcare development plan to boost health care delivery in the territory will commence in 2010.This was disclosed yesterday by the FCT Health and Human service Secretary, Dr Precious Kalamba Gbeneol, when she received the strategic plan document from a consultancy firm (Hanovia Medical limited) in Abuja.
CELEBRITIES and social leaders should spearhead HIV and Aids awareness in their communities to fight the stigma that still lingers around the pandemic, award-winning American actress Debra Messing has said.
More than 200 cows, goats and sheep have died from 132 disease outbreaks between October and November this year.
The government should support research into traditional medicine to help end epidemics, an official from Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom has appealed.
Sibusiso is a 10-year old boy who doesn't know why he has to take medication for the rest of his life while his friends do not. His mother has told him that he is taking antiretroviral (ARV) drugs, but struggles to tell him why. She speaks to Health-e.
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..."
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