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Africa: Report On Antibiotic Resistance Reveals Threat to Global Public Health
UN News, 30 April 2014
Antibiotic resistance - when bacteria change so antibiotics no longer work in people who need them to treat infections - is now a major threat to public health, says a new United… Read more »
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Africa: Resistance to Antibiotics Rises
Health-e, 1 May 2014
Resistance to common antibiotic medicine has been recorded in every region of the world, according to a report released yesterday by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Read more »
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South Africa: Pneumonia 'Super-Bug' Causes Shivers in SA
Health-e, 8 April 2014
The first patient with pneumonia resistant to all antibiotics was recorded in South Africa last year, raising the terrifying possibility of a "post-antibiotic era". Read more »
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Africa: Antibiotics Overuse Is Price of Success in Malaria Fight
VOA, 26 February 2014
As malaria rates decline across much of Africa, a new study seeks to fight another problem. Read more »
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Rwanda: Kids and Antibiotics
New Times, 2 May 2014
I HAPPENED to have a discussion recently with a group of friends, some of them were mothers with young children. The rhetoric goes around the same topics, the newest fashion, the… Read more »