Health

Maputo News

Health 14 Dec, 2009

Expatriates in Mozambique will soon have access to a new private medical clinic in Maputo. The Maputo Trauma Centre and Well Woman Clinic is located in Avenida Julius Nyerere and is scheduled to op...

Addis Ababa News

Catherine Hamlin awarded for fistula work

Health 30 Nov, 2009

Ethiopia-based Australian doctor Catherine Hamlin has been given the Right Livelihood Award for her work with women suffering from fistula injuries due to obstructed labour. The obstetrician and gynae...

Addis Ababa News

Zewditu hospital to get outpatients department

Health 30 Nov, 2009

Zewditu Memorial Hospital in Addis Ababa is to get a new three-storey outpatients department under a project of the Ethiopia chapter of the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The...

Arusha News

New HIV/AIDS treatment centre opens

Health 12 Sep, 2009

A new centre specializing in HIV/AIDS treatment has opened at the state-run Mount Meru regional hospital in Arusha. The centre has been built with funding from the United States President

Addis Ababa News

Diarrhoea outbreak in Addis Ababa

Health 07 Sep, 2009

Addis Ababa is battling with an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD), which has already affected thousands of people in the capital and caused several deaths. Three local hospitals, Zweditu, Ras D...

Cape Town News

Counselling for drug addicts by SMS

Health 01 Sep, 2009

A team from the free software innovation unit at the University of Cape Town (UCT) has developed an application allowing drug addicts, HIV/AIDS sufferers and other at-risk groups to seek and receive c...

Dar Es Salaam News

Specialist maternity hospital for Dar es Salaam

Health 01 Sep, 2009

Dar es Salaam is to get a hospital specialising in mother and child health under a partnership between the government and the Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation Trust (CCBRT), a Dar-es-Salaa...

Accra News

Accra hospitals get new funding

Health 16 Aug, 2009

Five Accra hospitals are to see the refurbishment of their maternity wards and theatres after an injection of government cash, according to Ghana News Agency (GNA). Pressure at the city

Maputo News

Maputo protests closure of HIV daycare centres

Health 16 Aug, 2009

The Mozambique government

Accra News

Skin disease lecture series launched.

Health 27 Jul, 2009

The Accra-based African Commission of Health and Human Rights Promoters (known by its French acronym CAPSDH) has launched a series of fortnightly public lectures on the skin, its functions and the cau...

Maputo News

Mozambique Eyecare Project.

Health 27 Jul, 2009

Staff from the optometry departments at Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) and the University of Ulster (UU) are to set up an optometry school at the new public L

Accra News

Malaria drops in Accra

Health 14 Jun, 2009

Following measures undertaken in a collaboration between Cuba based Biological and Pharmaceutical Laboratory Enterprise Group (LABIOFAM) and Ghana

Maputo News

HIV/Aids affects Mozambique civil service

Health 14 Jun, 2009

Maputo has seen a sharp rise in the incidence of HIV/Aids, with around 500 new cases a day being reported. In light of the increase in the figures Prime Minister Luisa Diogo has announced plans to int...

Cairo News

Cairo airport scans against swine flu.

Health 30 May, 2009

Egypt has continued its crusade against swine influenza with the installation of five thermal body scanners at Cairo international airport. Passengers arriving in the country from abroad who are detec...

Cairo News

Egypt culls pigs against swine flu.

Health 28 Apr, 2009

The health ministry has ordered all pigs in the country to be culled as a precaution against swine influenza, which has killed over 150 people in Mexico and one person in the United States and spread...

Addis Ababa News

Addis Ababa gets children’s cardiac unit.

Health 19 Feb, 2009

A private hospital specialising in cardiac problems among children has opened its doors in the Ethiopian capital. The facility in the premises of the state-owned Black Lion hospital is a project of th...

Addis Ababa News

More Addis Ababa cafés promote safe sex.

Health 19 Feb, 2009

Twelve caf

Lagos News

Polio immunisation campaign begins in Lagos.

Health 03 Feb, 2009

The Lagos state government has begun a campaign to vaccinate over three million children against poliomyelitis (polio) in an attempt to eradicate the crippling and potentially fatal viral disease. The...

Maputo News

Cholera kills 72 in Mozambique.

Health 18 Jan, 2009

At least 72 people have died from cholera in Mozambique in the last ten months, with 6,301 cases registered in nine out of the country

Addis Ababa News

Addis Ababa clamps down on khat houses.

Health 13 Jan, 2009

Addis Ababa city council has decided to take a tough stance on so-called khat houses, local English-language newspaper

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