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South Africa’s Life, Above All at Cannes Film Festival
Life, Above All, a feature film by Oliver Schmitz from South Africa competing in the "Un Certain Regard" category at the Cannes Film Festival...
15,000 British women strip for a cause
There was a lot of cleavage on display on Saturday night as 15,000 women, most wearing decorated bra's, gathered in Hyde park for the...
Zambian politicians at each other’s throats over HIV and Heart tests
Mud-slinging in Zambian politics has entered a new turf with politicians challenging each other to publicly reveal their health conditions.
Outspoken opposition leader of Patriotic...
South Africa Becomes First Government to Use the Pool for Open Innovation to Stimulate Neglected Disease Drug Research and Development
South Africa's Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) today became the first government agency to join in the Pool for Open Innovation against Neglected Tropical Diseases....
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and Ad Council Report Increase in Awareness of Lupus Among Women
Twenty-two percent of 18-44 year old women in the United States reported hearing more about lupus compared to a year ago, according to a...
Innovation in Uganda: Professional Development that Makes a Difference
Social enterprise, PEPAL, in collaboration with LSE, brings its Innovation Programme to sub-Saharan Africa. Professionals from across the globe will be paired with partners...
Racial Disparities Evident in Taking Sexual Histories in Emergency Departments
Emergency department physicians are more likely to document sexual histories of black adolescent girls with symptoms potentially related to sexually transmitted infections (STI) than...
World takes a stand against genital mutilation
The push for a ban on female circumcision in Africa has been taken to the United Nations, as 27 African countries and International activists...
Blog Contest Offers Graduate Students the Chance to Win a Trip to Zambia
Three students will win a trip to Africa through the social media contest "World Briefing: Telling the Malaria Story" co-sponsored by Malaria No More...
Tanzania: A success story in the fight against malaria
To optimize the management of anti-malaria drug stocks, the Tanzanian government, in partnership with IBM, Novartis, Vodafone, RBM, established an innovative project in 2009....
Ageing Population in South Africa Drives Joint Replacements Market, Observes Frost & Sullivan
The joint replacement market in South Africa is set to experience continued growth in the medium to long term, driven by an ageing population...
Roche Announces Joint Initiative to Train Healthcare Workers in Africa’s Fight Against Cancer
Roche announced today the launch of the EDUCARE (EDUcation for Cancer in African REgions) project, which, in concert with IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency),...
Sierra Leone: An ambitious health reform and a weak state capacity
Free health care initiative for pregnant women, breast-feeding mothers and children under five years old has begun in Sierra Leone; a government attempt to...
Zambia / Prison Conditions Endanger Inmates / Criminal Justice Failures, Overcrowding, and Poor Care Exacerbate Spread of TB, HIV
Prisoners in Zambia suffer malnutrition, overcrowding, grossly inadequate medical care, and the risk of rape or torture, the Prisons Care and Counselling Association (PRISCCA),...
African union is determined to count malaria out of the continent
On 25th April, the African Union (AU) commemorated World Malaria Day. Statistics collected by the AU for the year 2010, show some advances in...
Jacob Zuma preaches HIV awareness to South Africans
President Jacob Zuma has told the world that he’s clean from the deadly HIV saying he regularly takes HIV tests.
He said the disclosure of...
Ethiopia sounds alarm over new malaria prone areas
The Ethiopian Ministry of Health (MoH) has sounded concerns over outbreaks of malaria in areas where the disease was previously not found.
A replacement program...
Africa: Killing the malaria killer
On World Malaria Day this week governments and activists will boast of
millions of dollars spent on tackling the disease that still kills a
child every...
St. Louis Minority Advocacy Coalition Recognizes Care Improvement Plus With Diversity Award
Care Improvement Plus, a leading provider of Medicare special needs plan (SNP) solutions for chronically ill and underserved seniors, today announced that Lisa Nelson,...
Angola: Media important instrument to achieve Millennium Goals
The Angolan deputy health minister, Evelize Frestas, on 20 April 2010 emphasized the importance of the mass media as instrument to influence sustainable development...
World Malaria Day 2010 Commemorated by Progress Report and Social Media Initiative
The U.S. Fund for UNICEF today announced that in commemoration of World Malaria Day 2010 (April 25th), it will be partnering with a unique...
Stronger Drug Supply Chains Can Save Thousands of Children in Zambia and Beyond
A pilot project in Zambia has shown that strategic improvements in the supply chain for lifesaving drugs can have an immediate and dramatic impact...
Community-based Participatory Research Programs Offer New Solutions to Improving Community Health
For years, traditional research has offered limited opportunities to improve the health and well-being of underserved populations because of its one-dimensional approach. Community-based participatory...
Jean and Steve Case, Jack Dorsey, Bill Gates, MC Hammer, Kim Kardashian, Jason Mraz, Shaquille O’Neal, General Colin L. Powell, Queen Rania of Jordan, Jordin Sparks, and Pete Wentz Join the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Malaria’s Social Media Envoy Group
Additional New Media Luminaries Sign On to Activate Social Media Audiences in Support of Malaria Control, Raising Awareness and Funds for the Remaining 50...
South Africa: National Consultation on Migrant Access to Health Services
IOM Press Briefing Notes
IOM, the National Department of Health, the Forced Migration Studies Programme (FMSP), University of Witwatersrand, and the Joint United Nations...
Illinois Director of Public Health Speaks from Experience About Prostate Cancer
With African American males having a prostate cancer incidence rate that's sixty percent higher than that of white males, and a mortality rate that's...
AU conference reviews implementation of Maputo plan of action and seeks to strengthen partnerships in MCH
A continental conference on maternal and child health in Africa is being held at the African Union Commission in Addis Ababa from 19 to...
More Television, shorter lives
According to an Australian study, the risk of death from cardiovascular disease increases by around 20% for each hour per day we spend in...
Yes, He Finally Did!
After a year of contentious debate, misinformation, and racially tinged opposition, President Obama has delivered on his campaign promise to reform America’s healthcare system....
American Lung Association Releases Report on Lung Cancer in African Americans: Calls for Eliminating Health Disparities
The American Lung Association today released its report, Too Many Cases, Too Many Deaths: Lung Cancer in African Americans, a compilation of research examining...