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Kenya: Sh14 Million Free Health Camps
[The Star]Safaricom and the Kenya Diabetes Management has launched a Sh14 million free medical camp. The project will be undertaken in the next one year and will include 11 free medical camps and one children's camp. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Kenya: Nakuru Holds Autism Walk
[The Star]The Autism Society of Kenya has urged the government to put more measures in place to help thousands of sufferers. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Kenya: Kilifi Mother Delivers At Home, Bleeds to Death
[The Star]A middle-aged woman in Matsangoni, Kilifi county succumbed to excessive bleeding after delivering triplets. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Africa: Innovative Financing Partnership to Deliver Essential Health Supplies More Quickly and Efficiently
[USAID]New York -Today, The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Swedish International Agency for Development Cooperation announced a five-year partial guarantee to help speed up the procurement of essential medicines and health supplies by governments and civil society partners. The guarantee is part of a major scale-up of the Pledge Guarantee for Health, which will help to increase the impact of donor funding and ultimately improve healthcare access for the millions who are helped by foreign (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Uganda: New Study Highlights Need to Continue Fight Against River Blindness
[ASTMH]Researchers report onchocerciasis (river blindness) could make a comeback in Northwestern Uganda if annual drug distributions to fight the disease are stopped. The study, conducted in the endemic region of Nyagak-Bondo, showed that while there was a significant reduction in infection after 18 years of community-based treatment with the deworming medication ivermectin, transmission has not been interrupted. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

East Africa: Long-Term Mass Drug Treatment Can Eliminate River Blindness - Study
[ASTMH]New research provides the first evidence in East Africa that long-term community-based drug treatment alone can interrupt transmission of onchocerciasis, a parasitic disease commonly known as river blindness. The study finds that after eight years (beginning in 1998) of treating residents annually with the anti-worming medicine ivermectin, followed by six years of semi-annual treatment with the drug, there is no evi (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Kenya: Kabogo Warns Kiambu Government Doctors
[The Star]Kiambu governor William Kabogo has warned Kiambu District Hospital doctors against sending patients to their private hospitals and chemists. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

South Africa: New Ambulances to Exclusively Transport Pregnant Women
[SA Govt]Days of women delivering at home are soon to be a thing of the past in the North West province. The Department of Health has established maternity waiting homes and also procured ten (10) Obstetric ambulances to exclusively transport pregnant women, MEC Dr. Magome Masike said on Tuesday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

South Africa: Ketlaphela - South Africa Government's ARV Manufacturing Project Enters Next Phase
[SA Govt]Cabinet has approved a process to find new technology and investor partners in the Ketlaphela project, which aims to establish a government-controlled and fully integrated pharmaceutical company, focusing on the local manufacture of antiretrovirals (ARVs). (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

South Africa: PHC Re-Engineering Provincial Task Team Established to Provide Leadership and Review Progress
[SA Govt]Functional coordinating structures of Primary Health Care (PHC) re-engineering are in place at Districts and Sub-Districts. The North West PHC re-engineering costed plan has been developed to implement the three streams, i.e. School Health services, Specialist team, and Ward based outreach teams. Training has been standardised by National and phase one which is orientation and basic foundation, is provided by a contracted service provider and funded through conditional grants. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Deadly virus kills Tunisian man
A man has died of the novel coronavirus (NCoV) in Tunisia, in what is believed to be the first such case in Africa. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - May 21, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Africa: New Rapid Diagnostic Test for Worm Infection
[ASTMH]Deerfield, Il -A new diagnostic test strip to rapidly detect lymphatic filariasis - also known as elephantiasis - in human blood has significant advantages over the standard card test that has been used for more than a decade to map, monitor and assess the success of the massive global campaign to eliminate the disease. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Uganda: Uganda Fails to Hit Maternal Health Target
[New Vision]WITH barely two years left to the deadline for the realisation of the Millennium Development Goals (MGDs), Uganda is still short of meeting the target of reducing the maternal mortality rate. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Gambia: Stakeholders Sensitised On IHR in CRR
[Daily Observer]The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in collaboration with the Regional Health Management Team in Bansang Saturday held a one-day sensitisation for stakeholders on International Health Regulations (IHR), in Bansang, Upper Fulladu West District, Central River Region (CRR) south. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Gambia: GFD Briefs Media On Disability Open, National Epilepsy Week
[The Point]The Gambia Federation of the Disabled (GFD) yesterday convened a press briefing ahead of the celebration of the Disability Open Week and National Epilepsy Week set to kick off on Wednesday 22 May and end on 26 May 2013. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Africa: Amid Competing Global Challenges, Public Health Deserves Priority - UN Official
[UN News]At a time when the world is dealing with myriad challenges, from climate change to food insecurity, it is more important than ever to ensure that public health receives the both the attention and resources it deserves to ensure the well-being of millions, a senior United Nations official said today. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Nigeria: Country to Achieve Carbon Neutrality By 2025, Says Alison-Madueke
[This Day]The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has said Nigeria will by 2025 bring down its gas flaring by at least two per cent. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Tanzania: Prostatic Disease and Sexual Dysfunction
[Daily News]WHEN recently I went to the hospital to have my last born treated of a bad tooth that had all the previous night denied him sleep, I met William Kibao. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Liberia: Multi-Million Dollar Medical College in Sight
[NEWS]A former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Louis Sullivan has disclosed plans for the construction of a multi-million dollar medical college in Tappita, Nimba County. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Liberia: Medical School for Nimba? Influential Ex - U.S. Secretary of Health On Assessment Tour
[FrontPageAfrica]A high-power US medical delegation is in Liberia on an assessment mission for the construction of a medical college in rural Nimba County Liberia. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Liberia: 'Becoming Human Again' - Liberia's Fistula Survivors Share Stories of Redemption
[FrontPageAfrica]Victoria Kanu, 30, sits in front of her sewing machine turning the wheels as she puts the finishing lines to the dress of a waiting customer. She looks happy and alive as she tells FrontPageAfrica her ordeal that led her to contracting Fistula. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Ethiopia: Ethiopia to Carry Out Meningitis Vaccination
[ERTA]Ethiopia would carry out meningitis vaccination in all meningitis prone areas around the country, Ministry of Health has announced. The vaccination program would be carried out in different rounds. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Ethiopia: Ugandan MPs Hail Ethiopia's FP, RH Interventions
[ERTA]Social Affairs Standing Committee of the Federal Parliament meet MPs from Uganda on Saturday 18 May 2013 in Addis Ababa for experience sharing. Ethiopia's family planning (FP) policy and strategy plus the budget allocated to expand reproductive health (RH) services were acclaimed by the Ugandan MPs as best practices. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Ethiopia: Ethiopian Child Mortality Rate Falls 40 Percent
[ERTA]Ethiopia has reduced its child mortality rate by 40 percent over the last two decades. The figure is attested by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Ethiopia: Health Extension Workers Reducing Newborn Death
[ERTA]This is the story of a Health Extension Worker (HEW), her name isTezaru Arsicha, working at Debub Mesenkele Health Post of Dale district in Sidama Zone. It is found in the South Ethiopia Regional State. She usually makes a daily visit of six to 8 houses in the village she is assigned to serve as health extension worker. A very important aspect of this visit is following pregnant mothers, looking after health of newborn babies and treating the newborn babies in case of severe illnesses. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Angola: Angola Holds Vice Presidency At World Health Assembly
[ANGOP]Geneva -Angola was appointed Monday in Geneva vice president at the 66th World Health Assembly of World Health Organisation (WHO) where the country represents Africa. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Ethiopia: Donors, NGOs Backing Efforts to Reduce Maternal, Child Mortality
[ERTA]Donors and NGOs engaged in the health sector have contributed significantly to the achievements made in terms of reducing maternal death and child mortality, Ministry of Health has said. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Ethiopia: Debrebrhan Hospital Expanding By Over Br350 Million
[ERTA]Expansion of the Debrebrhan Referral Hospital, which is located in North Shoa Zone of Amhara State, is happening with over 350 million Birr. This is according to ENA. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Ethiopia: Ethiopia Marks International Day of the Midwife
[ERTA]Ethiopia has been working to increase the number of its midwives with a view to attain the goal of reducing maternal and infant mortality, says the country's Ministry of Health. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Tanzania: Pregnancy Is Not a Disease, It Should Not Kill Anyone
[Daily News]DOCTORS always tell us that pregnancy is neither a disease nor a disorder. It is just a temporary state of being which needs to be handled diligently to avoid unnecessary deaths. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Evidence of improving antiretroviral therapy treatment delays: an analysis of eight years of programmatic outcomes in Blantyre, Malawi
Background: Impressive achievements have been made towards achieving universal coverage of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa. However, the effects of rapid ART scale-up on delays between HIV diagnosis and treatment initiation have not been well described. Methods: A retrospective cohort study covering eight years of ART initiators (2004--2011) was conducted at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) in Blantyre, Malawi. The time between most recent positive HIV test and ART initiation was calculated and temporal trends in delay to initiation were described. Factors associated with time to initiation were i...
Source: BMC Public Health - Latest articles - May 21, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Derek SloanJoep van OosterhoutKen MalisitaEddie PhiriDavid LallooBernadette O¿HarePeter MacPherson Source Type: research

Using HPV vaccination for promotion of an adolescent package of care: opportunity and perspectives
Conclusions: There is generally support for the delivery of adolescent preventive health services. Despite national priorities to address adolescent health needs, our data suggest that national policies might not always be appropriate for vastly different local situations. While decisions about interventions to include have traditionally been made at country level, our results suggest that local context needs to be taken account of. We suggest low resource strategies for ensuring that national policies are introduced at local level in a manner that addresses local priorities, context and resource availability. (Source: BMC...
Source: BMC Public Health - Latest articles - May 21, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Catherine MacPhailEmilie VenablesHelen ReesSinead Delany-Moretlwe Source Type: research

Congo-Kinshasa: Malaria Overstretching Healthcare in DRC
[IRIN]Kampala -Gaps in the healthcare system in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are hampering the fight against malaria, a leading killer of children, say experts. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 20, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

UNFPA Donates Reproductive Health Supplies to Save Lives in Central African Republic - 01 May 2013
BANGUI, Central African Republic — Fierce fighting between rebel troops and Central African armed forces beginning in March has left widespread insecurity in the country. Cases of collective sexual violence and massive looting of public offices, housing and health facilities were reported, resulting in a massive internal displacement of populations and a drastic shortage of essential medicines, medical equipment and supplies in health centres meant to welcome and provide care to many victims of this crisis. (Source: UNFPA News)
Source: UNFPA News - May 20, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Moving beyond the “male perpetrator, female victim” discourse in addressing sex and relationships for HIV prevention: peer research in Eastern Zambia
Abstract: Despite the resources put into HIV education programmes with young people in sub-Saharan Africa in the past two decades, there is little clear evidence of impact. Many programmes continue to be oriented towards individual behaviour change (and in reality, often sexual abstinence) with insufficient focus on understanding how societies constrain or enable individual agency in sexual decision-making and how this is affected by social norms. If education programmes do address gender they often reinforce a “male perpetrator, female victim” discourse, where girls and women are held responsible for boys' and men's s...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 20, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Jo Heslop, Rabecca Banda Source Type: research

Rights-based services for adolescents living with HIV: adolescent self-efficacy and implications for health systems in Zambia
Abstract: A rights-based approach in HIV service delivery for adults is increasingly taking root in sub-Saharan Africa in the context of greater availability of antiretroviral therapy. Yet there has been comparatively little progress in strengthening a rights-based approach to adolescent HIV services, which we learned during a qualitative study in 2010 among 111 adolescents living with HIV, 21 parents and 38 health providers in three districts in Zambia. Adolescents in the study expressed a range of information and support needs and wanted locally relevant interventions to meet those needs. They wanted greater access to HI...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 20, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gitau Mburu, Ian Hodgson, Anja Teltschik, Mala Ram, Choolwe Haamujompa, Divya Bajpai, Beatrice Mutali Source Type: research

Policy commitments vs. lived realities of young pregnant women and mothers in school, Western Cape, South Africa
Abstract: Reproductive rights in South Africa continue to be undermined for young women who fall pregnant and become mothers while still at school. Before 1994, exclusionary practices were common and the majority of those who fell pregnant failed to resume their education. With the adoption of new policies in 2007, young pregnant women and mothers are supposed to be supported to complete school successfully. Notwithstanding these new policies, there are incongruities between policy implementation and young women's lived experience in school. This paper explores the experiences of pregnancy and parenting among a group of 15...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 20, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Sisa Ngabaza, Tamara Shefer Source Type: research

“I have grown up controlling myself a lot.” Fear and misconceptions about sex among adolescents vertically-infected with HIV in Tanzania
Abstract: With increased access to HIV treatment throughout Africa, a generation of HIV positive children is now transitioning to adulthood while living with a chronic condition requiring lifelong medication, which can amplify the anxieties of adolescence. This qualitative study explored how adolescents in Tanzania with HIV experience their nascent sexuality, as part of an evaluation of a home-based care programme. We interviewed 14 adolescents aged 15–19 who had acquired HIV perinatally, 10 of their parents or other primary caregivers, and 12 volunteer home-based care providers who provided support, practical advice, an...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 20, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Joanna Busza, Giulia VR Besana, Pasiens Mapunda, Elizabeth Oliveras Source Type: research

Using popular culture for social change: Soul City videos and a mobile clip for adolescents in South Africa
The Soul City Institute for Health and Development Communication (SCI) is a South African NGO and the largest social and behaviour change communication project in Africa. Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC) is the systematic application of interactive, theory-based, and research-driven communication processes and strategies that go beyond individual behaviour change approaches to also address the social and structural drivers of unhealthy behaviours. Using a combination of mass media, social mobilisation and advocacy, the SCI aims to improve the quality of life and health of people in Southern Africa through s...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 20, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Harriet Perlman, Shereen Usdin, Jenny Button Source Type: research

When target groups talk back: at the intersection of visual ethnography and adolescent sexual health
This is a report by the first author about the making of two videos about adolescent sexual health in Ecuador in 2011 and 2012.When I first arrived in the Cuenca, Ecuador, to begin ethnographic fieldwork as part of an adolescent sexual and reproductive health project (CERCA), my colleagues at the University of Cuenca Medical School assured me that talking about sex with young people, their parents, or anyone else in this predominantly Catholic city would be difficult. When I proposed getting cuencanos to talk about these issues on camera, one research assistant told me I was crazy. However, it had already been my experienc...
Source: Reproductive Health Matters - May 20, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Erica Nelson, Dylan Howitt Source Type: research

The collectivity of drinking cultures: is the theory applicable to African settings? - Rossow I, Clausen T.
AIMS: Skog's theory of collective drinking behaviour implies that countries with a strict informal social control of drinking alcohol would not exhibit 'collective displacement' of consumption (a linear association between population mean consumption and p... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - May 20, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Incidence and characteristics of injuries during the 2011 West Africa Football Union (WAFU) Nations' Cup - Akodu AK, Owoeye OB, Ajenifuja M, Akinbo SR, Olatona F, Ogunkunle O.
BACKGROUND: Prospective studies on football injuries and their risk factors in the African setting are sparse. Such studies are needed to understand the peculiarities of injuries and hence proffer appropriate intervention for injury prevention in the regio... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - May 20, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Recreational and Sports Issues Source Type: news