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An inmate died on Saturday at Kamiti Prison following a suspected cholera outbreak.
Nine inmates have been confirmed dead following an outbreak of cholera at Kamiti Maximum Security Prison.
CHOLERA has broken out in Kasese district with two cases reported in Hamukungu fishing village in Lake Katwe sub-county on Tuesday.
RESIDENTS of Kawaala-Kasubi, in Rubaga Division have a reason to smile after a new health centre was opened there on Wednesday.
THE African Manzi Centre (AFMAC) and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) have embarked on a project aimed at promoting the provision of safe and clean drinking water in schools.
A visiting Australian team of medical experts, in conjunction with doctors at King Faisal Hospital (KFH) in Kigali, successfully performed heart surgeries on 24 children over the past six days.
Zimbabwe may lose ground in the battle against HIV since more people are coming down with sexually transmitted diseases, an official in Ministry of Health and Child Welfare has said.
About 20 people have lost their lives and over 2,000 hospitalised following a cholera outbreak in Borno State.
The management of the Koforidua Hospital, in collaboration with the Nurses and Midwifery Association (NMA), has organised a five-day training workshop for its staff.
The supposedly mysterious disease that has been claiming victims in Tsangano district, in the western Mozambican province of Tete, has been identified as typhoid fever, reports Friday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias".
The Wa Municipality recorded a drop in HIV prevalence rate from 5.8 percent to 2.0 per cent, a sentinel survey report from the Ministry of Health has indicated.
'Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in good health, even as thy soul prospereth,' the Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Elvis Afriyie- Ankrah, echoed these Biblical words following a health walk organized by Zenith Bank at the last weekend.
Bangladeshi twins nearly three years old, Trishna and Krishna, last Tuesday passed a 25-hour operation to be separated, foreign media reports. Conjoined twins joined at the top of the head traveled to Australia and passed a successful operation.
A collaborative effort to launch a project to revitalize the family planning and reproductive health global agenda was announced on Wednesday in Kampala by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Compared to non smokers impotence is approximately 85% higher in male smokers and it is a key to erectile dysfunction (ED).
The Danish Ambassador to Ghana, Mr. Stig Barlyng has advised various stakeholders in the health sector not to burden the system through unnecessary administrative and reporting parallel systems so as to ensure the best possible care for patients.
The President of Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr Emmanuel Adom Winful, has observed that the challenges of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) have the potential to cripple health care delivery in the country.
Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has lashed out at hospital managers for failing to keep their hospitals clean.
HIV-positive women in western Uganda want fewer children than women not living with the virus, but often do not have access to family planning services, a new study reveals.
Fatou Manneh, an 11-month-old baby girl from New Jeshwang, is in dire need of help to undergo surgical operation in Dakar, Senegal, a medical report from the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital revealed.
Joan Katushabe, a Senior Four student at Ishaka Vocational Secondary School in Bushenyi district, is scared of the AH1N1 virus (swine flu) that attacked Kitabi Seminary which is about 20km from her school. She says the press reports and strict guidelines the school authorities have issued increased her worries about the disease, which was first detected in Mexico early this year.
On November 3, 2009, government announced a plan that will criminalise Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a cultural practice among the Sabiny of Kapchorwa and Bukwo districts, and a few communities in Moroto and Nakapiripirit districts. FGM involves partial or total removal of a woman's external genitalia without medical recommendation or for non-therapeutic reasons.
The First Lady, Hajiya Turai Yar 'Adua, has embarked on an advocacy visit to improve maternal and child survival in the country.
Residents of the Redco flats at Madina, a suburb of Accra, are complaining bitterly about the deplorable state of the flats, and the health hazards it poses.
The Ministry of Health has revealed Musanze the district most affected by Swine Flu.
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