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The Network of Anti Retroviral Users of Zambia is perturbed at the current shortage and rationing of the life-prolonging drugs used for treatment of HIV-positive citizens. However these complaints have thus far been dismissed by government officials. Ministry of Health Permanent Secretary Dr Peter Mwaba said there was no need to panic, arguing that there were enough stocks of anti-retrovirals
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Uganda records an estimated 100,000 malaria related deaths per year with children being the majority, the minister of health, Dr. Christine Ondoa, has said. Ondoa says in terms of the burden to our health system, clinically diagnosed malaria is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality, accounting for approximately 30-50% of outpatient visits at health facilities, 15-20 of all hospital
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Toliara — Health experts fear the interruption of food assistance in Madagascar is increasing incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in Toliara, the capital city of Madagascar's southern Atsimo-Andrefana region. Malnutrition and TB are intimately linked: Malnutrition weakens the immune system, increasing susceptibility to the disease, while TB reduces appetite, worsens the absorption of micronutrients and alters patients' metabolism. Donors suspended all
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Johannesburg — Just days into the rollout of fixed-dose combination (FDC) antiretrovirals (ARVs) by South Africa's HIV treatment programme - the world's largest - activists are raising fears of drug shortages. Patients on the triple-therapy regimen will be able to take just one pill daily to control the virus. This has the advantages of improving adherence, simplifying regimens so that
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Mogadishu — Lul Mohamed, director of the paediatric ward at Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, treated five children after two bomb attacks killed 30 people on 14 April. "And they were shooting last night. One died, a bullet in his liver," she said of an eight-year-old boy. Yet these are conditions of relative peace in Mogadishu. While the
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Abuja — The statistics are shocking. Over 300,000 Nigerians die from malaria each year – more than in any other country. An estimated 250,000 are children younger than five. When the disease strikes, most Nigerians visit patent medicine vendors (PMVs) like Bisi (not her real name) for relief. "You will take chloroquine; four today, four tomorrow and two afterwards", says
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Conakry - An outbreak of meningitis in Guinea has killed at least 40 people since the start of the year, the health ministry said on Thursday. A total of 379 cases have been detected this year in 19 of the West African nation's 33 regions, including the capital Conakry, said a report from the ministry. Guinea lies in the so-called
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The Minister of State for Health, Dr Muhammad Pate, has expressed shock that more than 1,000 children have been paralysed by the wild polio virus largely due to the rejection of immunisation in the northern part of the country. Pate was reacting to a newspaper report that an Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) don, Prof Haruna Kaita, whose previous utterances allegedly
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Blantyre — In Malawi, where the healthcare system frequently makes headlines for its shortages of drugs and medical workers, a fact that is often overlooked is that two out of four central hospitals do not have a specialist physician in attendance. "A lot of conditions are not appropriately diagnosed because they are seen by clinicians who are not aware of
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Ghana is facing a "major public health issue" after condoms supplied to the country's health service were found to contain holes and burst easily. More than 1m "Be Safe" condoms have been impounded by the country's food and drugs authority (FDA), which said they were also too small and not adequately lubricated. "When we tested these condoms, we found that
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Today as you read this story, 21 mothers will die during delivery. In fact, many more will die in North Eastern region.By the end of the year about 8,000 mothers will have died during labour, three times the number of those who die in road accidents annually which stands at 3,000. Maternal Mortality now stands at 530 deaths in every
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The Presidency has been advised by the doctors that former President Nelson Mandela had a restful day and continues to receive treatment. Government is satisfied that the doctors are providing the former President with the best medical care possible to enable his recovery and comfort. They have reported a further improvement in his condition. President Zuma thanks the thousands of
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"It's complex" is a phrase that crops up frequently when asking health specialists to explain why South Africa is struggling to control tuberculosis. Poverty, the prevalence of HIV/Aids, the legacy of apartheid, and individual health-seeking behaviour are among the factors that Professor Nulda Beyers, director of the Desmond Tutu TB Centre at Stellenbosch University, cites when discussing the TB epidemic
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Surgeons at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital have successfully separated a pair of Siamese twins born some three months ago. Joy News’ Seth Kwame Boateng reported that, after almost nine hours of surgery by 17 doctors of the hospital, the conjoined babies have been separated successfully and they have been put on separate beds. One of the doctors, Raphael Kuma
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MORE than 583,000 have been circumcised as part of the voluntary medical male circumcision programme since its inception in 2008. The VMMC beneficiaries also received HIV prevention and counselling services in a drive organised by the National Aids/` Control Programme. The programme, which started in 2008, targets is to have 600,000 voluntarily circum- cised by October. "The response to the
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Abuja — I am saddened by the devastating news of the three Korean doctors that were killed by unknown assailants in the late hours of Saturday evening at their rented quarters in Yobe State and the nine female health workers shot dead by unknown gunmen on tricycle on Friday morning in Kano. I join well meaning Nigerian's to condemn this
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In the last 10 days, 22 cases of the waterborne disease cholera have been confirmed by laboratory testing in three areas in and around the northern Mozambique town of Pemba, in Cabo Delgado Province. Leonard Heyerdahl, project manager of Africhol - an initiative of Paris-based NGO Agence de Médecine Préventive - told IRIN that from 30 January, "samples started turning
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The high incidence of bovine tuberculosis (BTB) in cattle on large dairy farms in central Ethiopia threatens farmers' incomes and public health, according to a study. As a result, the study calls for a concerted effort to control the disease and prevent the transmission of Mycobacterium bovis, the bacteria that causes it, to humans consuming dairy products from these farms.
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Bokoro — As darkness fell in the central-southern Chadian town of Bokoro, the very last patient, a listless girl, left a makeshift clinic run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) which had treated more than 4,000 children for severe malnutrition in the area since July 2012. "It's good news that patients have stopped coming because we have less malnutrition, but on
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Cotonou — Researchers in Benin say they have developed an improved method for detecting malaria parasites in mosquito vectors that could help yield better estimates of malaria transmission intensity in different settings. The new technique detects and identifies the four Plasmodium species in the principal mosquito vectors, Anopheles gambiae and Anopheles funestus. It is also enables scientists to detect 'mixed'
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An official website belonging to the Egyptian Radio and Television Union said on Sunday that sources have said that former President Hosni Mubarak is dying at the Maadi hospital where he is being treated. Unnamed sources close to the toppled president have said that he is currently "battling death" at the army hospital where he was moved on Thursday, Akhbar
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The former South African president, Nelson Mandela, has been discharged from hospital, the South African presidency says. Mr Mandela will continue to receive treatment at his home in Johannesburg until he has fully recovered, according to a statement from President Jacob Zuma's office. Mr Mandela, 94, was admitted to hospital 18 days ago. He was treated for a lung infection
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Betraka — Madagascar's traditional midwives, or 'matronnes', are often thought to undermine safe childbirth practices, delivering babies in unsanitary environments and without provisions to manage complications. Yet they are now being recruited to a campaign to get women to deliver in clinics or hospitals, part of a move to lower maternal and newborn death rates. "We have more work than
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Over 100 million Nigerians are at the risk of yellow fever infection due to government's failure to conduct vaccination, the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has warned. Health experts at a stakeholders meeting for yellow fever preventive campaign in Abuja said the disease outbreak is imminent as no mass vaccination has been conducted in the nation since the
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Nairobi — Scientists from Kenya and the United Kingdom have discovered a new potentially dangerous malaria-transmitting mosquito, which they say does not behave like other mosquitoes. The mosquito, known only as type A, was found in western Kenya and has biting patterns that the researchers say will make it harder to control than the commonly known Anopheles mosquitoes. Anopheles mosquitoes
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