This is a selection of articles from the April 2008 archive. Click here for this month's African Health headlines.
Uganda: 'Poor Hygiene Cause of High Typhoid Prevalence'
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 30, 2008 Source Type: journals
Toxic water killed E Cape babies - report
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Source: IOL: Health - April 30, 2008 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Who Raises Alarm On Underaged Tobacco Smoking
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 30, 2008 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Pfizer Directors Drag KNSG, Police to Court
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 30, 2008 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Red Cross Spends N20m to Stop Epidemics
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 30, 2008 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Reps Want FG to Evacuate Lepers From Highways
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 30, 2008 Source Type: journals
Surfers rescued from Cape chill
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Source: IOL: Health - April 30, 2008 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: NAFDAC Probes Food Poisoning of 120 Students
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 30, 2008 Source Type: journals
Africa: Allocate 15 Percent of Budget to Health, African Govts Told
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 30, 2008 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Shoddy Private Health Centres Closed Down
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Drug shortage affects even trusty old Disprin
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Source: IOL: Health - April 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Sierra Leone: 400,000 Cases of Mental Disorders?
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Ghana: Region Records 1,761 New Cases of TB in 2007
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Liberia: Grand Kru Citizens Decry Appalling Condition
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Tanzania: Govt Steps Up Bird Flu Prevention Efforts
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Namibia: Human Skeleton Found in Hospital Yard
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Namibia: Health Ministry Owed Millions in Unpaid Bills
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
South Africa: Suspension of 'Dustbin Doctor' Will Cost Lives
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Uganda: Truck Drivers Top HIV List - Study
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Uganda: Lake Victoria Pollution Increases
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Uganda: Kayunga, Mukono Get HIV Machine
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Angola: Physicians Order Calls for More Medical Faculties
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 29, 2008 Source Type: journals
Uganda: 3 Heart Patients Get Surgery
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 28, 2008 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Don Raises Alarm Over Looming Epidemic in Benin
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 28, 2008 Source Type: journals
Tanzania: 'Taken Aback' U.S. Students Donate Ambulance to St Elizabeth Hospital
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 28, 2008 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: 'Why Avian Influenza Outbreak Was Underreported in Taraba'
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 28, 2008 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Lagos Signs MoU With German University for Medicine Devt
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 28, 2008 Source Type: journals
'Why were our babies allowed to to die?'
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Source: IOL: Health - April 27, 2008 Source Type: journals
Suffering in the name of medicine
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Source: IOL: Health - April 27, 2008 Source Type: journals
Inflation sinks millions deeper into poverty
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Source: IOL: Health - April 26, 2008 Source Type: journals
Victory in battle of the bulge
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Source: IOL: Health - April 26, 2008 Source Type: journals
Cameroon: Report Attributes Death Rise to Nutrition Neglect
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 25, 2008 Source Type: journals
Tanzania: A Hazardous Route to the Cradle
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 25, 2008 Source Type: journals
Tunisian doctors arrive
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Source: IOL: Health - April 25, 2008 Source Type: journals
Namibia: Electronic Database for State Hospitals
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 25, 2008 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Borno to Recruit Egyptian Doctors
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 25, 2008 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Hospital Destroys Expired Drugs
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 25, 2008 Source Type: journals
South Africa: Call for MEC to Reinstate 'Dustbin Doctor'
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 25, 2008 Source Type: journals
Rwanda: Rehabilitation of King Faisal Hospital to Cost Over $ 50m
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 25, 2008 Source Type: journals
Kenya: Why Malaria Kills the Poor Most
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 25, 2008 Source Type: journals
South Africa: Medscheme Revamps Jo'burg Hospital's School for Children
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 24, 2008 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Experts Caution On Use of Antibiotics
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 24, 2008 Source Type: journals
Keyhole kidney op a first for SA
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Source: IOL: Health - April 24, 2008 Source Type: journals
South Africa: Cape Health Acts Swiftly to Contain MDR-TB
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 24, 2008 Source Type: journals
Manto: plan to help public hospitals
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Source: IOL: Health - April 24, 2008 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Regional Advocacy for Reproductive Health
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 24, 2008 Source Type: journals
South Africa: Fate of 80 Eastern Cape Children Prompts MPs to Promise Action
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 24, 2008 Source Type: journals
Kenya: Refugee Camps Hit By Malaria
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 24, 2008 Source Type: journals
Africa: Path Applauds New U.S. Congress Malaria Caucus
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 23, 2008 Source Type: journals
Angola: Health Deputy Minister Visits Uíge Province
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 23, 2008 Source Type: journals
School fears pupil has lethal TB strain
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Source: IOL: Health - April 23, 2008 Source Type: journals
Sierra Leone: Bonthe District Lacks Qualified Medical Staff
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 23, 2008 Source Type: journals
Tanzania: Poor Services 'To Blame for Fistula'
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 23, 2008 Source Type: journals
South Africa: Submissions on Draft Health Bills Extended
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 23, 2008 Source Type: journals
Zimbabwe: Hospital Gets 3 Cuban Docs
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 23, 2008 Source Type: journals
South Africa: Doctor Suspended for Putting MEC's Photo in Dustbin
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 22, 2008 Source Type: journals
Uganda: Why Are Country's Old Diseases Dying Hard?
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 22, 2008 Source Type: journals
Uganda: Stanchart to Restore Eye Sight
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 22, 2008 Source Type: journals
Angola: US Embassy Launches Water Treatment Product
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 22, 2008 Source Type: journals
Toddler dies after drinking potion
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Source: IOL: Health - April 22, 2008 Source Type: journals
Liberia: Govt Trains Health Workers to Reduce Childhood Diseases
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 22, 2008 Source Type: journals
Cameroon: Professor Anderson Sama Doh - «Palliative Care Relief Pain »
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 22, 2008 Source Type: journals
Tanzania: Planned Improvement of Rural Health Services Starts
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 22, 2008 Source Type: journals
South Africa: Private Hospitals Oppose Fee Bargaining
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 22, 2008 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: With All Hands On Deck, Autism Can Be Defeated - Dain
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 22, 2008 Source Type: journals
Rwanda: No More Tuberculosis Blots, When You're Using Dots
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 21, 2008 Source Type: journals
Ghana: Privatization of Water, Health Renders Mdgs Unattainable, Says Civil Society
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 21, 2008 Source Type: journals
Liberia: Yellow Fever Outbreak in Nimba Confirmed
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 21, 2008 Source Type: journals
Uganda: Father Waliggo Dies of Cancer
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 21, 2008 Source Type: journals
Nigeria: Does NAFDAC Number Expire?
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 21, 2008 Source Type: journals
Coma unit gets a face-lift
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Source: IOL: Health - April 21, 2008 Source Type: journals
Joburg water safe to drink
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Source: IOL: Health - April 21, 2008 Source Type: journals
Groote Schuur boosts baby facilities
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Source: IOL: Health - April 20, 2008 Source Type: journals
'Eskom hasn't sabotaged water supply'
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Source: IOL: Health - April 20, 2008 Source Type: journals
Africa: Experts And Leaders Discuss Cutting Maternal And Child Deaths
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 18, 2008 Source Type: journals
Ghana: Demonstration Against NHIS in Central Gonja is Politically Motivated - DCE
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Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 18, 2008 Source Type: journals