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Cholera infections still ravaging Zimbabwe
A humanitarian aid agency in Zimbabwe today says cholera infection rate is fast hitting one hundred thousand and that could be "any time" next...
Egypt’s religious swine killings and unreligious lies
One hundred pigs thrown into a dumpster, gassed and buried in lime. A video posted on the Internet over the weekend by Al-Masri Al...
Ethiopia: Ministry of Health challenges UN report
According a recent report released by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs (OCHA), a malaria outbreak in many low and...
Jhpiego’s Dr. Harshad Sanghvi receives international health award
Baltimore, MD. – Jhpiego, an international non-profit health organization affiliated with Johns Hopkins University, is pleased to announce that Dr. Harshad Sanghvi, Vice President...
Ethiopian MoH muscles in on the swine flu – A/H1NI
Petrified with the spreading Swine Influenza (A/H1N1), Ethiopian Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport Enterprise have moved to install...
Swine flu: A big hype or a looming death sentence?
The swine flu, initially discovered in Mexico, has become the new worldwide scare as governments run helter-skelter in search of solutions to prevent the...
Egypt persecutes Christian pig farmers in the name of swine flu
Following the world wide Swine flu scare, Egyptian police officers were deployed to a slum in Cairo, with a mandate to slaughter every swine....
Madagascar: On the slippery slope to hunger
Florine Zafy, who runs the health centre in Sampona, a tiny town in the Anosy region of southern Madagascar, has become as desperate as...
Swine flu: Africa spared from A/H1N1?
African countries are not yet affected by swine flu virus, the regional office of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Africa confirmed Thursday that...
Swine flu: All eyes on an unprepared South Africa
South Africa, the country with the most resources in Africa, has two suspected cases of swine flu, but does not have adequate supplies of...
Nigeria tackles swine flu and environmental issues
The Nigerian government has emphasized its willingness to safeguard the country from both the swine influenza pandemic and environmental hazards. Regarding the pandemic threat,...
South African swine flu cases: “No need to panick”
South Africa says it suspects two cases of swine flu, however, health authorities have said they are confident that SA will be able to...
Swine flu alert: Can Africa cope with a pandemic?
The swine flu virus appeared Saturday in Mexico and has already killed nearly 150 people. The spread is fast and dangerous. Only three days...
Black women seeking clitoris reconstruction not a luxury
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...
Zambia: Withdrawing 5800 health licences to save lives?
Zambian authorities could be forced to de-register more than 5,800 health practitioners, including medical doctors as they have not renewed their 2009 practicing certificates.
Medical...
Nigeria: Pfizer and Kano opt for out of court settlement
The outstanding court case between Kano, a northern Nigeria State, and Pfizer, a U.S drug firm, has been further postponed to 25th of May,...
Cigarette smoke harmful to kids and kills one out of two…
Exposing children to cigarette smoke could put them at serious risk of nicotine addiction, without ever having smoked a cigarette themselves. A recent Canadian...
Zambia records falling rates in HIV related deaths
More than 1,200 people died from AIDS-related diseases in Zambia last year while more than 38,700 other people were diagnosed with the virus which...
Malaria: Scientific breakthrough to wipe off malaria
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have for the first time identified a molecular pathway that triggers an immune response...
Zimbabwe still in dire straits
The international humanitarian community's most important tool for raising resources for action in Zimbabwe, the Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP), is out of date and...
Cholera devastating Ethiopia-Kenya border population
At least 14 people have died in the past seven days of cholera in the town of Moyale, along the Kenyan-Ethiopian border, health officials...
South African children to get expensive new vaccine
South Africa is set to become the first country in Africa to provide its children with a life-saving vaccine that experts say could prevent...
Disturbing UNICEF report: 4m children died in 28 days
The State of the World’s Children, is the title of a just released UNICEF (The United Nations Children's Fund) annual report on maternal and...
Nigerians concerned about a very sick President ?
The health of Nigerian President Mr. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, has been an issue of controversy since his ascension of office and recently more concerns...
Swaziland: Soon to become a no man’s country
A quarter of Swaziland's workforce is absent from work because of HIV/AIDS, says a report by the International Monetary Fund. The disease in Swaziland,...
Manufacturers of killer drug finally arrested in Nigeria
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control in Nigeria has arrested 12 staff members of the Pharmaceutical company that manufactured the...
More Nigerian children die from poisoned drug
More deaths amongst Nigerian babies have been recorded as a paracetamol based syrup found to contain engine coolant remains in circulation in pharmaceutical stores...
Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Developing World
Gazing at the faces of contrite bankers and somewhat shell-shocked politicians who are in Davos trying to figure out how to right a capsized...
A promising vaccine against malaria in the offing
A candidate vaccine against malaria has recently undergone two promising clinical studies. The first produced a 65% drop in the number of infections and...
New distressing cholera figures released in Zimbabwe
The World Health Organasation has released shock cholera figures of about 47,000 Zimbabweans having contracted the disease.
The World Health Organasation has released...