Years of working as a professional nurse have convinced Seobi Matube that having more than one sexual partner is a sure way of getting HIV.
As part of efforts to find a lasting solution to the alarming spread of the H1N1 influenza, popularly known as swine flu, the World Health Organisation has disclosed that it will donate H1N1 vaccines to about 10 per cent population of every country in Africa, out of which about 14 million Nigerians will benefit.
More than one million Kenyans are expected to get tested for HIV during a national campaign launched on Monday.
Malaria has for a long time been the number one killer disease in Tanzania, as in most tropical countries.
A Yellow Fever Risk Assessment conducted by the Liberian government through the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in collaboration with its partners has shown that yellow fever outbreak is imminent in Liberia, but the government and its partners are not playing a wait and see attitude.
With a view of providing sustainable high quality health services to all Rwandans, Management Sciences for Health (MSH) - an arm of the Ministry of Health, yesterday launched the Integrated Health Systems Strengthening Project (IHSSP).
SA's biggest private hospital group, Network Healthcare Holdings (Netcare), has seen increased demand for private healthcare despite the global recession, underscoring the healthcare sector's resilience to market conditions.
Cholera is on the rise in Nairobi slums, raising fears of a widespread outbreak of the deadly disease.
A hospital set up in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to care for United Nations peacekeepers is also bringing hope to hundreds of local people who might otherwise lack necessary treatment for their illnesses and injuries as well as screening that can ward off preventable sickness.
Some 1.6 million children throughout Guinea are receiving vaccinations, nutritional supplements and mosquito nets in a bid by UNICEF and the Health Ministry to shore up children's health, which experts say has been hit hard by unrest in recent years.
South Africa has moved swiftly to develop a male circumcision plan that would have buy-in from all stakeholders and will go beyond being a purely medical intervention, ideally also engaging men on among others HIV prevention, gender issues and alcohol abuse.
Worried over the rapid spread of the influenza A, H1N1 virus in the African regions, representatives of African countries under the auspices World Health Organization (WHO) are meetings in Abuja to discuss the procurement and deployment the vaccines.
AT least 30,000 children are born with HIV in Uganda every year, the AIDS control programme manager in the health ministry, Dr. Zainab Akol, has said.
Four people lost their lives when the Mozambican police opened fire on a mob destroying a cholera treatment centre in the northern province of Cabo Delgado earlier this month, according to a report in the Beira daily paper "Diario de Mozambique".
Fifteen years ago, Dan On'gayi was the first person in the western Kenyan village of Emuhaya to go public with his HIV status; at the time, the reaction from his community was so vitriolic he considered taking his own life.
