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Kampala — On a wet earth littered with fresh fruit from a large mango tree in Tumangu village in northern Uganda, Betty Olana (42) sits on a papyrus mat watching over four emaciated children infected by the mysterious nodding syndrome that leaves victims mentally challenged and nodding repeatedly when they see food or cold water. One of them is her
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Kinshasa - An outbreak of Ebola fever in the Democratic Republic of Congo may have claimed up to 32 lives since May, including that of a woman who had just given birth, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday. By September 15, "a cumulative total of 72 cases was recorded, including 14 cases that were confirmed positive after laboratory analysis,
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The recent Ebola outbreak in Kibaale district has been contained, with no new case recorded in the last two weeks, the health ministry has announced. Dr. Dennis Lwamafa, acting director general of health services, said in a statement that the last confirmed admitted case to Kagadi Hospital was on August 3. "There have not been new cases reported since then,"
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An outbreak of cholera in Guinea has killed 60 people since February and is showing no signs of letting up, the country's health ministry said Thursday. Officials have registered 2,054 cases, with the capital Conakry and the south-western city of Forecariah worst affected. Thirteen people have died in Conakry and 23 in Forecariah. The NGO Doctors Without Borders said in
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A team of experts from the United Nations health agency and its partners are supporting the Ugandan Government's response to an Ebola outbreak in the western part of the country. Over the weekend, Uganda's Ministry of Health notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in the Kibaale district. A total of 20 cases, including
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An outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus that erupted in western Uganda at the start of July has killed 14 people, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Saturday. The latest outbreak was in the western Kibaale district, around 200 kilometres (125 miles) west of the Ugandan capital Kampala, and around 50 kilometres from the border with Democratic Republic of
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Cape Town — At 9 a.m. each morning and 9 p.m. each evening, in her shack on the outskirts of Cape Town, Nomsa* diligently takes the antiretroviral medication that makes her HIV-positive status a manageable condition rather than a death sentence. But over the past month, her morning routine has changed. Since giving birth to a baby girl, not only
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About 117,000 babies were saved from HIV infection last year under South Africa's scheme to prevent mothers from passing on the disease during childbirth, health official said Thursday. Among mothers with HIV, only 2.7 percent passed the virus to their babies in 2011, down from 3.5 percent in 2010, the Medical Research Council said. The rate was eight percent in
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The South African government's health records, numerous independent research papers and a report released last year by Human Rights Watch all point to a link between HIV and the rise of deaths during pregnancy and childbirth. The South African Department of Health notes in its fifth "Saving Mothers Report" that from 2008 to 2010, the "big five" underlying causes of
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Cape Town — There are many abortion advertisements posted around Cape Town, at bus stops, taxi ranks and even churches. They usually have the name of someone claiming to be a doctor along with a contact number. I phoned a "Dr Abba" advertised on a pamphlet at a bus stop in Luzuko, a township near Khayelitsha, and posed as a
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Addis Ababa — Ethiopian and Norwegian researchers have developed a mathematical model that can identify conditions that increase the likelihood of a malaria outbreak up to two months ahead of its occurrence. The computer model, Open Malaria Warning (OMaWa), incorporates hydrological, meteorological, mosquito-breeding and land-use data to determine when and where outbreaks are likely to occur. Torleif Markussen Lunde, one
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The representative of the World Health Organization in Angola named Rui Gomes Vaz congratulated, on the 24th of January , the government of Angola for all its efforts made in order to eradicate the malaria. He also said that this country has reduced 60 percent of the rate in recent years, and the number of death caused by this disease. -
Cairo - An Egyptian security official says ousted president Hosni Mubarak's health has deteriorated in the three days since a court sentenced him to life imprisonment in connection to the killing of protesters. The official at Cairo's Torah prison said that Mubarak collapsed several times on Tuesday, and that he was placed on mechanical ventilation after having difficulty breathing. The
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Lagos - Authorities in Nigeria's economic capital Lagos said on Thursday they had recalled all 788 doctors who were dismissed after they went on strike over pay. The doctors, including consultants and specialists, were fired on 07 May after going on strike on 16 April. Authorities said the strike was illegal. But Lagos state governor Babatunde Raji Fashola said on
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Antsohihy — The Basic Health Centre or Centre de Santé de Base (CSB) II in Anjalajala, near Antsohihy, the capital of Madagascar's northern Sofia Region, is housed in a recently renovated building and its status as a CSB II promises the availability of a trained doctor. But the doctor left for Antananarivo, the capital, in 2002 and has not been
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More than a third of malaria drugs examined by scientists in Southeast Asia were fake, and a similar proportion analysed in Africa were below standard, doctors warned on Tuesday. "These findings are a wake-up call demanding a series of interventions to better define and eliminate both criminal production and poor manufacturing of antimalarial drugs," said Joel Breman of the Fogarty
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SOME 35 NGOs have teamed up to petition the government, urging it to allocate adequate budget for maternal and newborn health during the 2012/2013 financial year. The activists met in Dar es Salaam over the weekend and agreed to engage policy makers especially MPs to push for increased budget allocation. "The maternal and newborn health sector has been allocated only
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Kinshasa — ore than 7,500 cholera cases have been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since the beginning of the year as an epidemic that began in June 2011 continues to affect parts if the capital, Kinshasa, as well as four other provinces. In total, more than 30,000 cholera cases have been identified around the country since the
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Nairobi — Malaria is in the bull's eye of a global campaign. The target is zero malaria deaths by 2015. The challenge is how to get there -- and stay there. Nearly 2,000 children die every day from malaria, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). For much of the past decade, malaria has killed as many as a million
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Kampala — The National Drug Authority in Uganda has in recent years been overwhelmed by the amount of counterfeit drugs in the market that have endangered lives. According to Ms. Kate Kikule, the Head of Drug Inspectorate Services at NDA, the fake drugs mainly from China and India are becoming difficult to monitor because of technological advancement. "Counterfeits are endangering
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A total of 7.6 million children were immunised against polio in Kano State during the just concluded second round of the immunization exercise in the state. Kano State deputy governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje told reporters on the latest polio immunisation campaign in the state, added that the state government had mapped out strategies aimed at ensuring that Kano maintained
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Military officers and officials of the United State government yesterday commenced a 3-day workshop in Abuja on how to fight HIV/AIDS scourge in the armed forces. About 11, 014 HIV infected soldiers are currently receiving Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs in 24 military clinics across the country. The Chairman of the Emergency Plan Implementation Committee, Ministry of Defence, Major General Tahir Umar,
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Brazzaville — A cholera outbreak is adding to the woes of thousands of people displaced by a huge munitions blast in the Congolese capital Brazzaville about a month ago, say officials. "We have 10 confirmed cases of cholera," Youssouf Gamatié, the UN World Health Organization's representative in Congo, told IRIN. Poor hygiene and sanitation conditions in the sites for the
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The American University in Cairo said Wednesday that a team of its researchers has designed a faster and cheaper test for all types of hepatitis C, which it says affects about 10 million Egyptians. The development "reduces the two-step testing process carried out over a number of days to a one-step process that takes less than an hour... at a
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Nairobi — Lack of adherence to the full course of Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) treatment is threatening the effectiveness of the drug recommended as first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria in countries where the disease is endemic, according to recent studies. In Siaya district of western Kenya, where malaria is particularly prevalent (38 percent incidence in 2010), a study revealed that
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