MedWorm: African Health

Sandf's discriminatory aids policy void

IOL: Health — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:34:43 +0100

Loud cheers have followed the landmark ruling in the Pretoria high court allowing HIV-positive people to join the SANDF. (Source: IOL: Health)

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Can rehabs cure sex addiction?

IOL: Health — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:25:06 +0100

A recovering drug and sex addict in Cape Town says fancy rehabilitation centres, like the one British Lord Irwin Laidlaw has booked into, cost a fortune. (Source: IOL: Health)

Ghana: disabled women call for better medical care

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:22:50 +0100

Article 25.1 of the Universal Declaration, to which Ghana is signatory states, "Everyone has a right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability " (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Ghana: western medicine vs. traditional afrikan medicine

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:22:48 +0100

Based on previous news reports that have warned Ghanaians to be very circumspect about some of the western drugs they are taking, we thought it appropriate to examine the issue of western medicine and traditional medicine. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Zimbabwe: new medical fees set for council hospitals

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 16:49:07 +0100

THE Association of Health Care Funders of Zimbabwe has approved new medical fees for all council administered health institutions to a maximum of $4,5 billion with effect from May 1. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Angola: health and civil service trade union prepares congress

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:33:49 +0100

The National Independent Trade Union of Health and Civil Service Workers (SNITSFP) will organise its second congress in January 2009, aimed at analysing its statutes and renew the mandate. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

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East africa: an official mission to avoid the hiv infections.

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:04:41 +0100

The UNAids regional director for Southern and Eastern Africa is back after two years on an official mission to assess the local situation. He will also see how he can give more support to improve the health situation. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Soweto gets blood donor centre

IOL: Health — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:38:36 +0100

A new blood donor centre has been opened in Soweto's Maponya Mall. (Source: IOL: Health)

Uganda: foot and mouth disease hits kibaale

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:26:03 +0100

Foot and Mouth cattle disease has broken out in Kibaale District. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

South africa: doctors' body to probe legal unit after arrest

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:16:13 +0100

THE Health Professions Council of SA (HPCSA) is investigating all cases being handled by its legal department after its legal adviser was arrested for alleged corruption. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Namibia: killer tb in country

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:00:51 +0100

EIGHT cases of the deadly extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) have been confirmed in Namibia by international experts. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

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Sierra leone: nigeria specialists to boost health sector

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 13:00:40 +0100

The South-South Health Care Delivery programme last week provided the ministry of health and sanitation with 10 medical practitioners that would be working in various fields of Sierra Leone's medical sector. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Priests invited to undergo hiv test

IOL: Health — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:50:10 +0100

Eighty Anglican clergymen from across the province have been invited to a gathering where they will be tested to find out their status. (Source: IOL: Health)

Missing: our hiv and aids prevention campaign

IOL: Health — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:28:21 +0100

While science struggles to find an HIV vaccine, there have been real advances in the field of HIV prevention. So why isn't South Africa taking advantage of these? (Source: IOL: Health)

Nigeria: senate passes national health bill

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:07:52 +0100

Regardless of the absence of the Chairman of the Senate Committee on health, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, the Senate yesterday passed the National Health Bill into law. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Nigeria: 'no exemption from anti-smoking law'

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:07:38 +0100

With Abuja, the Nigerian capital set to join New York, London, Nairobi and several capital cities which have prohibited public smoking , the Federal Capital Territory Administration has said that no resident of the territory, be it government official or other highly placed individual would be exempted from the Tobacco Control Act of 1990, which would take effect from June 1, 2008. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

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Namibia: suicide statistics worrisome

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:32:10 +0100

Most people would not want to die voluntary, yet more and more people especially young people are committing suicide in Namibia. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Namibia: drug resistant tb strain confirmed

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:32:02 +0100

After months of suspicions, the Ministry of Health and Social Services on Thursday confirmed the country's first eight cases of extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), which is resistant to four TB drugs. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Angola: u.s. donors visit namibe province

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:36:36 +0100

A delegation of donors from the USA Thursday visited south-west Namibe province with the aim of assessing the reality of the region. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Cops bust killer tb patients

IOL: Health — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:23:20 +0100

Quarantined TB patients say the hospital where they were staying has broken one promise too many. (Source: IOL: Health)

Nigeria: senate passes health bill in iyabo's absence

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 10:08:12 +0100

THE National Health bill seeking to enact a comprehensive health policy for the nation was passed by the Senate yesterday. The bill reportedly facilitated by part of the unspent N300 million Federal Ministry of Health budget was passed in the absence of the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

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Hiv+ soldiers fight for their rights

IOL: Health — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:58:42 +0100

A court has heard a case against the defence force's policy not to recruit, deploy or promote HIV positive individuals. (Source: IOL: Health)

Kenya: pay sh106,000 to get hand back, hospital tells patient

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:58:21 +0100

A man who lost his hand a year ago has to pay Sh106,000 to get it back. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Trauma can't take this boy's smile

IOL: Health — Fri, 16 May 2008 08:56:03 +0100

Eleven-year-old Carlton Moyo's dream to be normal was born on the night a bus driver fell asleep at the wheel. (Source: IOL: Health)

Nigeria: decision in obasanjo daughter corruption case monday

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:30:57 +0100

Chairperson Senate committee on health, Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello will by next Monday know her fate wither to still be on the run or to come out of hiding, as an Abuja High Court will rull on her preliminary objection seeking to quash the charges. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Uganda: girls to get cervical cancer vaccine

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:50:56 +0100

THE Ministry of Health is to immunise 10-year-old girls against cervical cancer, a health official has said. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

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South africa: calls for full review of hospital tender

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:37:22 +0100

The provincial department of transport and public works has been hauled over the coals for its budget spending and will also have to conduct a full review of the controversial Somerset Hospital tender. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Nigeria: repositioning the health sector in nigeria

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:16:32 +0100

A popular adage has it that health is wealth. The wealth of a nation can, therefore, be measured in terms of the life expectancy of its citizens. Presently, there is rot of unspeakable proportion in the Nigerian health sector; this ostensibly, can be traced to the near-total collapse of the health care delivery on the part of government. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Uganda: nurses celebrate in lira

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:57:59 +0100

Nurses have called on the government to focus on Primary healthCare as a means of empowering the communities to effectively address their needs, health status and quality of their lives. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Mozambique: child and maternal mortality rates decline

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:12:03 +0100

Mozambique's infant, under-five and maternal mortality rates have all declined in recent years, but still remain alarmingly high. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

South africa: medi-clinic focuses on lifting foreign revenue

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:16:50 +0100

PRIVATE hospital group Medi-Clinic aims to derive more than half its revenue for the next financial year offshore as private healthcare regulations cast uncertainty over the sector. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

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Uganda: activists want tests for sickle cell legalised

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:50:52 +0100

APPROVE a policy that makes it mandatory for babies to be tested for the sickle cell disease upon birth, activists urged MPs yesterday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Nigeria: minister, dg nafdac, commend sosaco for diversifying into manufacturing

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:15:42 +0100

MINISTER of State for Commerce and Industry, Ahmed Garba Bichi, and the Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drugs Control (NAFDAC) Prof Dora Akunyili, have commended Sosaco Nigeria Limited, for diversifying from buying and selling into manufacturing. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Health official in court for fraud

IOL: Health — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:48:00 +0100

An Eastern Cape department of health worker has been arrested on a fraud charge. (Source: IOL: Health)

Uganda: food concerns grow in karamoja

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:05:51 +0100

Home to about 1.1 million people, Karamoja in northeastern Uganda is a harsh, semi-arid region largely inhabited by agro-pastoralists, with the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the country, and the lowest life expectancy. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

South africa: over 170 nurses to do community service in nw

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:38:42 +0100

About 178 new nurses from the North West government nursing colleges will be doing their community service this year. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

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Sierra leone: health minister at world health assembly in geneva

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Wed, 14 May 2008 15:07:22 +0100

Health and sanitation minister Dr. Soccoh Alex Kabia left Freetown yesterday to attend this year's World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Nigeria: food poison - nafdac laboratory test result out

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:53:08 +0100

Laboratory result of the poisonous beans eaten by students of Government Girls Secondary School, Doma, Gombe State, is out. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Namibia: conference recognises role of families

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:36:29 +0100

A national conference on families, the first of its kind to be held in the country, started in the capital yesterday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Namibia: cholera shuts kunene school

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:23:36 +0100

GOVERNMENT has temporarily closed the Okanguati Combined School near Opuwo for an indefinite period after two teachers and a pupil contracted cholera. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Ethiopia: au to adopt advocacy plan on trypanosomiasis

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Wed, 14 May 2008 12:36:44 +0100

Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is in spotlight at a stakeholder meeting being held at the AU headquarters is deliberating from Monday 12 April to 14 April 2008, the Pan-African body which organized said on Monday. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

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Uganda: community perceptions of quality healthcare

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:55:41 +0100

Ever wondered what quality means regarding the services provided by the public and some of the privately owned health facilities in this country? (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Tunisia: unicef hails "considerable decrease" of infant mortality rate in country

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:43:38 +0100

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) expressed satisfaction at the considerable decrease of the mortality rate of children aged less than 5 in Tunisia where there were 23 deaths per 1000 births in 2006 against 51 in 1990. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Zimbabwe: chitungwiza central hospital rebrands

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:19:21 +0100

CHITUNGWIZA Central Hospital, which was upgraded to a central hospital in 2006, has now assumed its referral status providing an affordable and quality health service to patients. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Kenya: man wants his job back after 20 years

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:10:18 +0100

A man who was retired by a bank more than 20 years ago due to a mental condition wants to be reinstated after he was given a clean bill of health by Mathari Hospital. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

South africa: parliament rejects tobacco bosses' talks request

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Wed, 14 May 2008 11:05:12 +0100

Parliament has rejected the tobacco industry's appeal to send section 76 of the Tobacco Control Amendment Bill back to the health department for more consultation, sinking the latest move to delay progress of the proposed law. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

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South africa: netcare, woolies open new pharmacy

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:35:54 +0100

SA's biggest private hospital group, Netcare, and retailer Woolworths have launched a new pharmacy in Athol Square, Johannesburg, their second dispensary since they announced their partnership a year ago. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Uganda: mulago, the ailing national referral hospital

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:17:56 +0100

Mulago the largest hospital in Uganda is an ailing hospital which is slowly failing to live up to its purpose. It's the national referral hospital that also serves as a teaching hospital for Makerere University Medical School. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

Uganda: remedying water pollution

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:17:49 +0100

If measures to save the wetlands are not heeded to now, the water levels at Lake Victoria will continue to go down writes Martin Ssebuyira (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

South africa: rural doctor speaks out on kzn events

AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:03:43 +0100

A rural doctor who recently returned to the country reflects on the events at Manguzi Hospital and shares his own personal experiences and incidents while working at a rural hospital in KwaZulu-Natal's Umkhanyakunde district. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)