This is a selection of articles from the December 2006 archive. Click here for this month's African Health headlines.
Kenya: Rift Valley Fever Will Hurt Pastoralists
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 29, 2006 Source Type: journals
Gambia: Dosh Distributes Detergents
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 29, 2006 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: 'Vitamin A Deficiency Caused 80,000 Deaths'
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 29, 2006 Source Type: journals
Uganda: Mulago Hospital Gets Donation of Toys
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 29, 2006 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Agagu Authorizes Payment of Two Months Salaries to Striking Health Workers
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 29, 2006 Source Type: journals
Uganda: Mulago Hikes Charges
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 29, 2006 Source Type: journals
Kenya: Rift Valley Fever Claims 9 More Lives
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 29, 2006 Source Type: journals
Kenya: Deaths Now 30 As Fever Hits Coast
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 29, 2006 Source Type: journals
Kenya: One Ministry With Clean Bill of Health
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 29, 2006 Source Type: journals
Kenya: Fever Kills 3 More As Quarantine is Imposed
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 29, 2006 Source Type: journals
Uganda: Blindness Up in Acholi
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 29, 2006 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Bayelsa Blames High Rate of HIV Cases On Oil Coys
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2006 Source Type: journals
Kenya: Rift Valley Fever Kills 8 More
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2006 Source Type: journals
East Africa: Bush Goes to War Against Malaria
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2006 Source Type: journals
Angola: Huambo - Cholera Continues to Spread in Peripheral Areas
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2006 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: 2006: Terrible Year For Africa's Children
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2006 Source Type: journals
Kenya: Eight More Perish As Killer Disease Spreads
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2006 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Borno: Rural Dwellers Speak on Health Needs
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2006 Source Type: journals
Zimbabwe: Give Aids Sufferers Prominent Roles
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2006 Source Type: journals
Ethiopia: Bureau Set to Enable Over 230,000 People Benefit From Mobile VCT Service
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2006 Source Type: journals
Uganda: Uganda Launches HIV Vaccine Trials for Babies
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2006 Source Type: journals
Southern Africa: Tanzania to Benefit From $19.7m ADB Loan to SADC Nations
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2006 Source Type: journals
Egypt: Minor Loses Life to Bird Flu
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2006 Source Type: journals
Angola: HuĂla - Cholera Kills One, Ten Hospitalised in Humpata
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2006 Source Type: journals
Kenya: This Disease Must Be Contained
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2006 Source Type: journals
Ethiopia: UN Backs Mass Measles Immunization Amid Concern At New Cases
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2006 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Poverty Forces Stray Bullet Victim to Abondon Treatment
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 26, 2006 Source Type: journals
Ethiopia: Global Flu Could Wipe Out 62 Million in 2007
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 26, 2006 Source Type: journals
Kenya: Policy Changes Boost Growth
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 24, 2006 Source Type: journals
Congo fever patient dies
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Source: IOL: Health - December 23, 2006 Source Type: journals
Move for emergency vehicles, drivers told
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Source: IOL: Health - December 23, 2006 Source Type: journals
Angola: Sandocan Launches "Tubarao Branco"
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 22, 2006 Source Type: journals
Angola: Committee On Maternal Death Prevention Outlines 2007 Plan
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 22, 2006 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Nafdac Arrests Ex-Deputy Gov for HIV Test Kits Fraud
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 22, 2006 Source Type: journals
Zimbabwe: Parirenyatwa Blasts Council Over Health Charges
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 22, 2006 Source Type: journals
South Africa: Legal Challenge Again Stalls Drug-Price Rules
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 22, 2006 Source Type: journals
Liberia: No Salary, No Service
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 22, 2006 Source Type: journals
Kenya: Killer Disease Identified As Rift Valley Fever
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 22, 2006 Source Type: journals
Cameroon: First Lady Comforts Destitute Children
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 22, 2006 Source Type: journals
Kenya: Slow Progress in Safer-Sex Services for Men Who Sleep With Men
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 22, 2006 Source Type: journals
Ghana: Help in the spread of HIV/AIDS
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 20, 2006 Source Type: journals
Rwanda: School Prefects Train On Trauma
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 20, 2006 Source Type: journals
Botswana: We Need Privacy in HIV Tests - the Disabled
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 20, 2006 Source Type: journals
Angola: National Business People Called to Participate in Malaria Fight
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 20, 2006 Source Type: journals
Kenya: Five More Die From Unidentified Disease
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 20, 2006 Source Type: journals
Kenya: Ngilu Takes Blame Over Poor Healthcare Services
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 20, 2006 Source Type: journals
Rwanda: New Anti-Malaria Spray to Be Launched
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 20, 2006 Source Type: journals
Uganda: It Started As an Itch
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 20, 2006 Source Type: journals
Ghana: President Bush Announces Ghana as New Focus Country for President's Malaria Initiative
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 20, 2006 Source Type: journals
Uganda: You Could Be Diabetic And Not Know It
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 20, 2006 Source Type: journals
South Africa: Reproductive Rights of HIV Positive People Under Discussion
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 20, 2006 Source Type: journals
Uganda: Hospice Clinic Gives HIV Patients a X-Mas Treat
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 20, 2006 Source Type: journals
Rwanda: Locals to Buy Ambulance
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 20, 2006 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: FCT Disburses Loans to HIV/AIDS Victims, Widows
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 20, 2006 Source Type: journals
Circumcision deaths down - health department
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Source: IOL: Health - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Teachers 'do not sell sex to earn extra cash'
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Source: IOL: Health - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Tanzania: Health Officials Distribute Chlorine to Check Cholera
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Ghana: Bush Fights Malaria
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Uganda: Don't Dare Fate - Janet Tells Youth
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Kenya: Cut is Not the Answer
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Ghana: President's Excellence Award
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Coca-Cola 'Caravan' Targets 100 Million People
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Eritrea: Eritrean Doctors Association Holds Annual Forum
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Ethiopia: Canada Supports Country's Health
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Kenya: State to Popularise Male Circumcision
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Uganda: Katikkiro Joins the Chorela Fight
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Mozambique: First Lady Calls for Results in Fight Against Aids
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Kenya: HIV Circumcision Warning
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Liberia: Malaria Threatens Country's Future
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Liberia: U.S. Govt Pledges $2.2 Million for Health Survey
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Namibia: Hope for Cancer Sufferers in Remote Areas
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Zimbabwe: 'Organisations Cash in On HIV/Aids Funds'
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Kenya: Data On HIV/Aids Queried
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 19, 2006 Source Type: journals
Africa: U.S. Warns On Bird Flu
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 17, 2006 Source Type: journals
Kenya: On the Move Towards Improved Health Care
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 17, 2006 Source Type: journals
Jude and Sadie to visit KZN orphans
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Source: IOL: Health - December 16, 2006 Source Type: journals
SA duo walk miles to create a few smiles