This is a selection of articles from the January 2008 archive. Click here for this month's African Health headlines.
Nigeria: Measles - Katsina Records 800 Cases, 74 Deaths
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 31, 2008 Source Type: news
Kenya: Moi Still Admitted in Hospital With Back Ailment
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 31, 2008 Source Type: news
Namibia: Buy an Apple, Show You Care
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 31, 2008 Source Type: news
Namibia: Cancer Apple '08 Project Launched
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 31, 2008 Source Type: news
Angola: Sleeping Sickness Worrying - ICCT
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 31, 2008 Source Type: news
Cameroon: South West - SW Health Fund Praised For Efficiency
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 31, 2008 Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Council for the Blind to Train More Nurses
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 31, 2008 Source Type: news
Nigeria: For Our Health We Write a Letter
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 31, 2008 Source Type: news
Kenya: Firms Plan Private Placements
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 31, 2008 Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Shortage of Drugs Hits Chitungwiza Clinics
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 30, 2008 Source Type: news
Africa: Brain Drain - Major Concern in Africa
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 30, 2008 Source Type: news
Nigeria: Neimeth Pharmaceuticals Diversifies, Projects N10 Billion Turnover By 2010
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 30, 2008 Source Type: news
Kenya: Slow Start in NHIF's Drive for More Members
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 30, 2008 Source Type: news
Angola: Deputy Minister of Health Travels to Kuando Kubango Province
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 29, 2008 Source Type: news
Nigeria: 'Help Me Stay Alive', Pleads Down Syndrome Patient
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 29, 2008 Source Type: news
Nigeria: Court Embargoes N37bn Health Care Fund
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 29, 2008 Source Type: news
Nigeria: Rivers, Canadian Firm to Build N1.2tr Specialist Hospital
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 29, 2008 Source Type: news
Zambia: Lusaka Set for $20m Specialist Hospital
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 29, 2008 Source Type: news
South Africa: Reports of Cattle Skin Disease in Limpopo
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 29, 2008 Source Type: news
Cameroon: Manyemen Gets Pulse Of CERAC's Generosity
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 29, 2008 Source Type: news
Ethiopia: Humanitarian Bulletin - 29 January 2008
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 29, 2008 Source Type: news
Nigeria: How Water Changed the Fortunes of Isolo General Hospital
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 29, 2008 Source Type: news
Mozambique: Flooding Brings Risk of Disease
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 29, 2008 Source Type: news
Kenya: Moi Admitted to Hospital
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 29, 2008 Source Type: news
Uganda: Five Children for Free Heart Surgery in India
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 29, 2008 Source Type: news
South Africa: Labour Probes Exposure to Poisonous Fumes
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 28, 2008 Source Type: news
Angola: Health Institutions to Sign Agreement Tuesday
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 28, 2008 Source Type: news
Gambia: Local Red Cross Society Holds Home Base Care Training
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 28, 2008 Source Type: news
South Africa: R200 000 Flood Damage in Limpopo Hospital
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 28, 2008 Source Type: news
Angola: Cholera Claims Two Lives in Bocoio
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 28, 2008 Source Type: news
Zimbabwe: Scores of Babies Die in Hospital's 'Death Bed'
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 28, 2008 Source Type: news
Africa: Global Burden of Child Deaths
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 28, 2008 Source Type: news
Tanzania: UAACC Donates Hospital Equipment to Arusha Hospitals
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 28, 2008 Source Type: news
Angola: Authorities Step Up Preventive Measures Against Cholera
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 28, 2008 Source Type: news
Namibia: Govt Medical Aid Defrauded
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 28, 2008 Source Type: news
Africa: Min Dlamini Zuma Attends AU Ministerial Meeting
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 28, 2008 Source Type: news
Nigeria: Winning the Tobacco War
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 27, 2008 Source Type: news
South Africa: Country Facing an Asbestos Epidemic
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 27, 2008 Source Type: news
Somalia: Terrorists Spread Negative News About My Health, Says President
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 26, 2008 Source Type: news
Most private hospitals to lower tariff hikes
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Source: IOL: Health - January 25, 2008 Source Type: news
Africa: 26,000 Children Under Five Die Daily
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 25, 2008 Source Type: news
Nigeria: Group Donates Equipment Worth N120m to Hospital
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 25, 2008 Source Type: news
Nigeria: Doctors At Federal Medical Centre Down Tools
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 25, 2008 Source Type: news
Angola: International Physicians Congress Continues
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 25, 2008 Source Type: news
Nigeria: Female Doctors, Indefatigable - Omexiri
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 25, 2008 Source Type: news
Uganda: M7 Orders for Disease Control Centre
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 25, 2008 Source Type: news
Angola: WHO Representative Thanks Government for Support
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 25, 2008 Source Type: news
Redeployment doesn't solve doctor shortage
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Source: IOL: Health - January 24, 2008 Source Type: news
'Health department delays cost lives'
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Source: IOL: Health - January 24, 2008 Source Type: news
Nigeria: UCTH Doctors Down Tool
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 24, 2008 Source Type: news
Africa: New Avian Influenza Flare-Ups - Virus Remains a Global Threat
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 24, 2008 Source Type: news
Angola: Benguela - Leprosy Reflection Week Proceeds
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 24, 2008 Source Type: news
Sierra Leone: IRC Boosts Kenema Gov't Hospital
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 24, 2008 Source Type: news
Ghana: Gov't to Upgrade Daboase Health Center
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 24, 2008 Source Type: news
Nigeria: Ministry Warns of Measles, Meningitis Epidemic
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 24, 2008 Source Type: news
Mozambique: Health Minister Resumes Unannounced Visits
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 24, 2008 Source Type: news
Nigeria: '25 Tertiary Health Centres in Poor State'
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 24, 2008 Source Type: news
Nigeria: After Successful U.S. Suits, Govt Takes On Big Tobacco
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 24, 2008 Source Type: news
Botswana: Beware of Chinese Toothpaste
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 24, 2008 Source Type: news
Get ready for a sizzling 2008 Sexpo
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Source: IOL: Health - January 23, 2008 Source Type: news
Blackouts: generators 'can kill you'
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Source: IOL: Health - January 23, 2008 Source Type: news
'I was forcibly circumcised'
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Source: IOL: Health - January 23, 2008 Source Type: news
Uganda: MPs Tour Condom-Testing Lab
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2008 Source Type: news
Liberia: Sam Jackson Receive Flowers
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2008 Source Type: news
Nigeria: UCH to Bury Unclaimed Corpses
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2008 Source Type: news
Botswana: Hospital Isolatestb Patients
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2008 Source Type: news
Angola: Delegations Jet in for Doctors Association Congress
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2008 Source Type: news
Uganda: Cattle Disease Hits Isingiro District
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2008 Source Type: news
South Africa: Targeted Health Plans for World's Children
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2008 Source Type: news
Ethiopia: Country At the Centre of Child Survival Revolution
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2008 Source Type: news
Kenya: Expanded Medical Centre Brings New Hope to Remote Rural Area
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2008 Source Type: news
Africa: Children's Lives Can Be Saved, Says UNICEF
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 23, 2008 Source Type: news
Angola: Huambo - Health Minister's Visit Postponed
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 22, 2008 Source Type: news
Angola: Namibe - Health Ministry Runs Seminar On Tuberculosis
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 22, 2008 Source Type: news
Uganda: Ebola Suspect Dies in Arua
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 22, 2008 Source Type: news
Botswana: Health Corner
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 22, 2008 Source Type: news
Angola: Cuban Health Deputy Minister Visits Country