Health - Page 12
Initiations, Circumcisions and Deaths : A South African headache
When Steve Matlhabela, 16, left his home on a chilly June morning to visit some relatives in a village not far from his in...
Roadside sex in Africa
Roadside bars, truckers and sex workers have long been seen as one of the most dangerous combinations for the transmission of HIV, with truckers...
Positive results announced in favour of President’s fertility treatments
Gambia’s Health and Medical Services Director, Dr. Tamsir Mbowe, has said that President Yahya Jammeh’s infertility treatment programme was working and 96 patients have...
HIV pervalence shots up despite Condom glut and better medical access
More Kenyans are getting infected with the HIV virus even though more than 25 million of them are not aware of their health status.
The...
The government prepares a law banning smoking in public places
The Moroccan government is preparing a law prohibiting smoking in public places and the sale of cigarettes to minors less than 18 years.
A bill...
Severe health risks in Sierra Leone
With malaria, diarrhea and vomiting, pneumonia, bronchitis and other respiratory infections, worm infestations, scabies, abscesses, sores, and boils all common ailments in the Kroo...
South Africa seeks over 4,000 foreign doctors
With more South African doctors now working abroad than in the country's ailing public health sector, the government needs to start aggressively recruiting health...
Counterfeit drugs and poverty increasingly going hand in glove
With a severe respiratory infection and a prescription for medicines that would cost 35,000 CFA francs (US$83) at official prices, Drissa Kone has a...
British researchers prove humans can live 14 years longer
According to a recent British study, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t if
you adopt four healthy behaviours: don’t smoke; take at least half an...
Obama’s health plan tackles disparity : Scrapping risk-based pricing
A Barack Obama administration would seek to ban risk-based pricing on all individual health insurance plans to stop companies cherry-picking healthy customers, a senior...
President Levy Mwanawasa’s state of health still an issue?
The Zambian government insisted today that President Levy Mwanawasa was alive - denying media reports he had died in a Paris hospital - and...
Looming medical doctor shortage threatens Africa’s future
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has war ned that Africa faces a "dramatic" shortage of physicians by the year 2015.
According to a...
Did Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa die in Paris ?
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, who was evacuated to Paris, France, for specialist treatment, as announced by Vice President Rupiah Banda Tuesday night, is reported...
Zambian President suffers heart attack at AU summit in Egypt
President Levy Mwanawasa of Zambia was rushed to hospital in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh late Sunday after a health emergency, it...
Ethiopians and Rwandans get a new lease on life
Rolling back malaria really is possible! Between 2005 and 2007, the
authorities in Ethiopia and Rwanda succeeded in reducing the number of cases of malaria...
Dysentery bacteria discovery marks research breakthrough
Researchers at INSERM in France recently discovered that Shigella, a
bacterium responsible for causing acute intestinal inflammation, destroys
our immune defences.
This is an important discovery...
The irony of a sensitive fight for patents
Last month, the World Health Organization's governing body, the World Health Assembly (WHA), formally adopted a set of public policy recommendations for poor governments...
Women hiding their HIV status for fear of being battered
Maria is living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) are now more widely available and are supposed to make her...
Maternal and child mortality rates improving in Zambia
The number of pregnant women in Zambia dying from pregnancy related causes has reduced from 729 to 449 per 100,000 live births, the latest...
Harsh shortage of Anti-retroviral drugs in Congo
People living with HIV/AIDS in Congo Tuesday denounced the "shortage" of the Anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs), the Congolese state-owned radio announced.
"We have been informed about...
Better health care only a telephone click away
The small, dusty village of Mayange lies 20 kilometres from Rwanda’s capital, Kigali. Its health centre has fewer than 40 beds but serves an...
HIV Positive Mozambiquans faring better
In just over three years, Mozambique has increased the number of HIV-positive people receiving the life-prolonging anti-retroviral therapy by over 1,500 per cent.
Speaking on...
Men fighting for women’s equality
Another overheard a young woman in a mini-bus say to her friend, “I do things wrong. Of course he must beat me. How would...
Bad breath equals bad hygiene or ill health ?
It’s not true that bad breath is not unavoidable. Nor should it be taken lightly or just dealt with by sucking breath freshener tablets...
Professor Familoni discovers HIV / AIDS cure
Professor Oluwole Familoni, a Nigerian chemist at the University of Lagos, claims he has discovered 13 new compounds for the treatment of HIV/AIDS among...
Sahel: Sahel climate change diary – Day 1
Jan Egeland, the UN Secretary General's Special Adviser on conflict is travelling in the Sahel to bring attention to climate change and conflict
OUAGADOUGOU, 2...
How effective is cervical cancer vaccination
Six and a half years. This is the unrivalled result revealed by the authors of a study on the vaccine Cervarix. This vaccine has...
International ban on cigarette advertising looms
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday urged governments to protect the world's 1.8 billion young people by imposing a ban on all tobacco...
Intentional HIV infections in Angola raises heavy concerns
Proposed reforms to Angola's Penal Code have divided opinion in the country about whether HIV-positive people who intentionally infect others with the virus should...
Smoking in public places banned in Zambia
The Zambian government has banned smoking in public places with immediate effect, and offenders will face maximum jail term of two years or maximum...