Category Archives: Africa Healthcare

YEMEN: Child Polio “Humanitarian Disaster”

Posted on November 13, 2011 by

  Routine immunization of children has dropped by 40 percent in some areas of Yemen, leading to outbreaks of polio and measles and reflecting a growing collapse of public services in a country that is on the brink of a … Continue reading →

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GUINEA: “Free childbirth unsustainable due to lack of resources”

Posted on November 11, 2011 by

Mortality rates in Guinea have dropped significantly over the past two decades, but efforts to speed up progress on the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) to reduce maternal mortality by three-quarters by 2015 through a ban on childbirth fees, including for … Continue reading →

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Search for Women HIV Prevention

Posted on November 8, 2011 by

OF the more than 34 million people living with HIV worldwide, half are women and three quarters of the world’s HIV positive women live in the Sub-Saharan Africa. Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) Microbicide Trials Network (MTN) … Continue reading →

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A Real Sophie’s choice: Famine forces mothers to decide which child lives and which dies

Posted on August 18, 2011 by

Wardo Mohamud Yusuf walked for two weeks with her one-year-old daughter on her back and her four-year-old son at her side to flee Somalia’s drought and famine. When the boy collapsed near the end of the journey, she poured some … Continue reading →

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Cholera, Measles Kill Hundreds:DRC

Posted on July 14, 2011 by

Outbreaks of measles and cholera in parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo have killed hundreds of people, with thousands more infected, says an official of the UN World Health Organization (WHO). “Since September 2010, 115,484 measles cases and 1,145 … Continue reading →

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COTE D’IVOIRE: Unrest disrupts malaria programme

Posted on June 8, 2011 by

DAKAR, 7 June 2011 (IRIN) – The post-election violence in Côte d’Ivoire delayed by several months a distribution of mosquito nets – a pillar of the country’s strategy to combat malaria, a leading killer of children. Some communities must wait even … Continue reading →

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BURUNDI: Women risk HIV rather than starvation

Posted on April 26, 2011 by

Desperate and displaced, some Burundian women will do anything, including have unprotected sex for money, to escape the dreadful living conditions in the Bujumbura suburb of Sabe, where more than 480 families of internally displaced persons (IDPs) have lived for … Continue reading →

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Somalia: Hiv/Aids Rumours causes Measles Outbreak

Posted on April 7, 2011 by

NAIROBI, 7 April 2011 (IRIN) – The cause of a measles outbreak in Somalia has yet to be determined but doctors say initial suspicions point to “unfounded rumours” that the vaccine could cause HIV/AIDS in children and interfere with their … Continue reading →

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KENYA: Workers Risk TB in Gold Mine

Posted on April 6, 2011 by

  NYATIKE, 6 April 2011 (PlusNews) – Timothy Omuya spends most days chipping away at stones in search of gold and inhaling fine particles of dust without protective gear in western Kenya’s mines. It was not a huge surprise, therefore, … Continue reading →

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DR Congo: Pneumonia Vaccine

Posted on April 5, 2011 by

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) today added the vaccine against pneumonia to its national immunisation programme in a United Nations-backed initiative to drastically improve the chances of survival for children under the age of five. The expanded programme is … Continue reading →

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