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Controversial acne drug available in SAEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
While Americans have witnessed the sudden disappearance of a blockbuster acne drug, South Africans have no reason to worry. (Source: IOL: Health)
Source: IOL: Health - November 11, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Tanzania: Mbulu's Swine Flu Victim Also Suffered Other AilmentsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Female School teacher in Mbulu District, who was reported to have died from a disease diagnosed as Zoonotic-Swine Influenza was also suffering from various other maladies. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 21, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Nigeria: New Vaccine for Prevention of Cervical CancerEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
MEDICAL scientists have discovered a four-in-one vaccine-gardasil-for the prevention and control of cervical cancer in Nigeria, which is the only quadrivalent Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine in the world that has shown the ability of preventing four serotypes of Cervical Cancer causing viruses (HPV). (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 22, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

East Africa: Swine Flu Now Endemic in East Africa, Says WHOEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
H1N1 has probably become endemic in East Africa, with statistics from the World Health Organisation showing that the region has reported the highest number of confirmed cases on the continent outside South Africa. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 21, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Uganda: No Set Rules On FitnessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Obesity rates in Uganda are rising, especially among the well-to-do. Obese means big. To be obese is to be above one's normal body weight. According to K. Kiyimba David, a doctor at Ntinda Medical Centre, on average an adult female should be between 50 to 80 kilograms, and an adult male between 60 to 90 kilograms. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 6, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Zimbabwe: Measles Claim Four ChildrenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Four children below the age of five died of measles in an outbreak suspected to have been triggered by unvaccinated children who recently came from South Africa. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 23, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

South Africa: Measles Vaccine is Safe, Assures DeptEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Department of Health has reassured parents and guardians that the current measles jab being dispensed at schools as part of the measles vaccination campaign is safe. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 21, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Nigeria: 'No Bird Flu Death in Plateau'Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Plateau State government says the state has not recorded any case of human death due to the avian influenza known as bird flu, but that thousands of birds were lost as a result of the outbreak of the flu in the state in 2006. The state government confirmed that over N49 million had been paid to the 33 poultry farmers whose birds were destroyed in the state when the outbreak was noticed. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 14, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

East Africa: Avian-Flu AlertnessEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Avian flu is still not yet a problem in East Africa but that hasn't stopped the EAC from ensuring that the region remains safe from the epidemic. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 1, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Uganda: WHO Brings Life to Sleeping Sickness VictimsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The World Health Organisation and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) will extend a life line to several victims of sleeping sickness across Africa with plans of producing two drugs to treat the disease in its late stages. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 24, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Nigeria: Avian Flu on the Rampage - LombiEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Executive Director, National Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI), Dr. Lami Hannatu Lombi, has disclosed that avian influenza known as bird flu, the highly pathogenic H5N1 subtype has ravaged the poultry industry world- wide as it has caused several- human fatalities, particularly in South- East Asia and part of North Africa, Egypt. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 4, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Measles outbreak: Joburg prison quarantinedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A ten-day quarantine has been declared at a Johannesburg prison with 51 cases of measles. (Source: IOL: Health)
Source: IOL: Health - October 26, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

South Africa: Authorities All Out to Avert Measles SpreadEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As the number of measles infections continues to climb in Gauteng, authorities in the province are going all out to avert a further spread of the pandemic. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 20, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Egypt: Over the Top With Anti-Swine Flu StepsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
As authorities consider suspending a whole academic year to check the spread of swine flu among school children there is a feeling that measures to contain the H1N1 virus - known to be less dangerous than the one responsible for seasonal flu - are going over the top. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 18, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Gambia: PTP Treats Over 6000 Patients - Dr. MboweEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
After two years and nine months since the Gambian leader,His Excellency Sheikh Professor Alhaji Dr Yahya Jammeh made the pronouncement before the world of herbal medicine, his ability to treat several diseases and the formation of the Presidential Treatment Programme(PTP), over six thousand patients have been treated, revealed Dr Tamsir Mbowe, the director general of the Presidential Treatment Programme. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 3, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Uganda: Why Doctors are Fleeing Clinical Practice (Part Two)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
There are many categories of persons in need of medical care. Public health is an important aspect of any healthcare system; it plays a big role in curbing the spread of communicable diseases; known in old lingua as the "killer diseases"-cholera, tuberculosis, polio, diphtheria, tetanus, yellow fever, measles. Communicable adds new diseases- malaria transmitted by mosquito bites, and the venerable HIV. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 9, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Uganda: Flood-Stricken Area Risks Cholera, DysentryEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Residents of Sironko stand a high risk of contracting cholera, dysentery and bilharzia if the Ministry of Health does not come to their rescue, a report has said. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 26, 2007 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Congo-Kinshasa: DRC Government Confirms Ebola OutbreakEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has confirmed an outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever, in the province of Kasai Occidental. Laboratory analysis undertaken at the Centre International de Recherches Médicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Gabon, and at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, USA has confirmed the presence of Ebola virus in samples taken from cases associated with the outbreak. Laboratory tests conducted by Institut National de Recherches Biologiques (INRB) in Kinshasa on urine and blood samples collected from suspected cases, have also confirmed the pres...
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - September 12, 2007 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Uganda: Kasese Lacks Sewer System, Hit By CholeraEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
KASESE town lacks a sewer system and as a result many residents suffer from water-borne diseases like dysentery and cholera, the town council health inspector, Louis Muhwezi, has said. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - July 31, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news

Uganda: Kasese Lacks Proper SewerageEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The Kasese Town Council health inspector, Louis Muhwezi, has said the town's lack of a sewerage system has caused the residents to suffer from water-borne diseases like dysentery and cholera. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 3, 2009 Category: African Health Source Type: news