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August 01, 2014
West Africa: Ebola - Softly, Softly On Bush Meat
Medical teams struggling to curb Ebola in West Africa have been discouraging bush meat consumption, believed to have caused the outbreak, but some rural communities dependent on… Read more »
July 18, 2012
Sierra Leone: Health Fees Scrapped but Gaps Remain
Under the new directive government health facilities are to provide free care to under-five children and pregnant and lactating women. Read more »
June 09, 2011
Madagascar: Vaccination Efforts Pay Off
Tahiri and her baby daughter have joined a courtyard full of women sheltering their babies from the midday sun at a health centre in Ankareira, near Madagascar's southern tip. Read more »
October 18, 2010
Mali: Disabled Seek Jobs, Not Charity
Mali's disabled have access to some free healthcare options, and are supported by a number of associations and charities, but what they really want is to find work and contribute… Read more »
March 31, 2010
Senegal: Killing Babies to Hide Indiscretion
In Senegal women who become pregnant outside of marriage - their husbands living abroad - commonly kill their babies out of fear and shame. Read more »
May 06, 2009
Burkina Faso: 'Pleasure Hospital' for Genital Mutilation Victims
Construction has begun of West Africa's first clinic for reconstructing clitorises for victims of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). Amid high demand, the US non-profit… Read more »
April 10, 2009
West Africa: Genital Repair Surgery Remains Prohibitely Expensive
Amid high demand from victims of female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) for clitoral reconstruction surgery available in Burkina Faso, the procedure remains unaffordable for… Read more »
August 19, 2008
Cote d'Ivoire: UN Warns Toxic Waste Still a Threat
Two years after an illegal toxic dumping operation in the Ivorian capital Abidjan created a widespread medical emergency and political scandal, UN contamination expert Okechukwu… Read more »
July 31, 2007
Kenya: Climate Change And Malaria in Nairobi
Malaria is the most common disease in Africa's largest slum, Kibera, in Nairobi, say health workers, but at a cool altitude of about 1,700m, the capital city has long been… Read more »
April 13, 2007
Malawi: Condoms Get a Bad Rap
As we enter the third decade of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, prevention efforts have yet to come to grips with a deep-seated antipathy to condoms, particularly in southern Africa, the… Read more »
February 12, 2007
Gambia: President's Aids Cure Raising More Questions Than Answers
An unsubstantiated but well-publicised claim by The Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh that he can cure AIDS risks setting back efforts to stop the virus from spreading in the… Read more »
December 21, 2006
Angola: Health Experts Battle Unknown Disease Outbreaks
Health organisations in Angola are scrambling to identify a disease that has surfaced in Uige Province, in the north, and in Huila Province, in the south, to prevent further… Read more »
November 08, 2006
Zimbabwe: Undertakers Report Booming Business
One sector of Zimbabwe's depressed economy is experiencing boom times. For those providing services for the dead, business is very healthy. Read more »
September 18, 2006
Cote d'Ivoire: Clean-Up of Toxic Waste Begins
International waste removal experts in protective suits and masks have begun cleaning up toxic waste that was dumped in several areas of Abidjan in a scandal that has further… Read more »
September 11, 2006
Africa: The Granny Revolution
It started with three South African grandmothers sharing their grief at the loss of their children and supporting each other to care for their orphaned grandchildren. Five years… Read more »
September 04, 2006
Africa: Gender Inequality Driving HIV - UN Aids Envoy
Gender inequality and the inability of women to negotiate safe sex are behind the continued spread of the pandemic, according to Stephen Lewis, UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS in… Read more »
July 10, 2006
Africa: UN Aids Envoy Vocal On Women's Issues
The UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis, has proposed the establishment of a new UN agency to protect women's rights, health and security. Read more »
February 02, 2006
Zambia: Cause for Optimism in Malaria Battle
As the rainy season descends in Zambia, hospital beds around the country will increasingly fill with patients suffering from malaria. The disease is Zambia's number one killer,… Read more »
November 17, 2005
Angola: Country Emerges Stronger After Marburg Fever Outbreak
The deadly Marburg hemorrhagic fever outbeak in Angola has finally been consigned to history after claiming 227 lives, but the country handled the crisis "very well" and… Read more »
August 08, 2005
South Africa: Govt to Consider Routine HIV Testing
The South African government is considering whether to make HIV tests routinely available at public health facilities. Read more »
July 12, 2005
Djibouti: Women Fight Mutilation
For thousands of years, girls in the area that is now the tiny African country of Djibouti, have been subjected to pharaonic circumcision. Read more »
May 25, 2005
Sudan: Living With the Trauma of FGM
Omnia was nine years old the day she was forced onto a cold metal table by her mother and grandmother and circumcised by a stranger. Now 22, she has never forgotten the incident. Read more »
May 20, 2005
South Africa: New Ways of Combating HIV/Aids Bear Fruit
One in five young South Africans is HIV positive Read more »
August 18, 2004
Sierra Leone: Lack of Aids Surveys Create Confusion
The lack of nation-wide surveys to ascertain the extent of HIV/AIDS in Sierra Leone has created confusion over numbers, experts have said. Read more »
June 11, 2004
Botswana: Expectant Mothers Take Up Routine HIV Testing
Scores of pregnant women in Botswana's second largest commercial centre, Francistown, are embracing routine HIV testing, a study has revealed. Read more »
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