Yesterday UNICEF published, together with the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, its progress report on Child Survival claiming…
decrease, health, mortality rate, UN Inter-Agency Group, UN Millenium Goals, under 5 mortality rate, UNICEFAuthor Archives: Jamila Kluvers
Two months after the first reported cases the Ebola outbreak is under control, according to the Health ministry of Uganda….
deaths, Ebola, health report, Kibale District, MSF, New Vision, UgandaWorrying developments in DRC’s North Kivu have been recently reported. Besides heavy fighting and the region’s struggle with masses of…
cholera outbreak, clean water, death, devastating humanitarian situation, fighting, North Kivu, sanitation facilities, WHOAgain, an Ebola outbreak is hitting Uganda, frightening patients and health care workers all over Uganda as it is spreading…
Ebola virus, Filoviridae family, Kampala, Kibaale District, UgandaThe news from Addis Ababa and Brussels are contradictory. According to a AFP source, Ethiopia’s head of state is in…
Addis Ababa, AFP, Belgium, Brussels, critical health condition, Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi24th April, World Malaria Day, Geneve: WHO celebrates the progress made in Malaria treatment and present their new initiative for…
DRC, Malaria, MSF, T3, WHO, World Malaria DayLast Wednesday thousands of Kenyan public health care workers decided to end their 2 week strike after a meeting with…
Alfred Mutua, Kenya, Kenya Civil Servants Union, Kenya Union of Nurses, Khang'ati, MP Fred Outa, Nairobi, nurses, Parliamentary Committee on Health, public health sector, Raila Odinga, Robert Monda, sacking, Seth Sindano, StrikeThe WHO, the UK Department for International Development, USAID, 13 pharmaceutical companies, like GlaxoSmithKline, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation…
bacterial infection, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, blinding trachoma, Chagas, GlaxoSmithKline, guinea worm, leprosy, lymphatic filariasis (elephantiasis), Neglected Tropical Diseases, NTD, parasites, river blindness, schistosomiasis, sleeping sickness, soil transmitted helminthes (intestinal worms), UK Department for International Development, UN Millenium Goals, USAID, visceral leishmaniasis, WHO, Worldbank, worm infectionThe first suspected cases occurred in last year’s October. Three months later at end of December already more than 1500…
Cholera, excreta, Harare, Henry Madzorera, sanitation facilities, Typhoid, WHO, ZimbabweNew research, ‘Induced abortion: incidence and trends worldwide from 1995 to 2008′ , published by the Lancet Medical Journal online…
Guttmacher Institute, Lancet Medical Journal, maternal death, maternal health, UN Millenium Goals, Unsafe abortion, WHOThe brutal assassination of our colleagues in Hodan makes it impossible for us to continue working in this district of…
al-Shabaab, camp, famine, Mogadishu, MSF, SomaliaOne day after resignation, a former employee of Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors without borders went back to the compound in the…
Aid workers killed, drought, medecins sans frontieres, medical aid, Mogadishu, MSF, shooting, UNThe global number of new HIV infections has dropped with 21% between 1997 and 2010. In 2010, 2.7million people got…
HIV, International HIV/Aids Alliance, MSF, UNAIDS, World aids dayResearchers of the Sanger Malaria Programme indentified the unique receptor the plasmodium falciparum is using to gain entry and penetrate…
anopheles mosquito, immunity, Malaria, malaria parasite, MSP3, PfRh5, plasmodium falciparum, RTSs, Sanger Malaria Programme, UK's Wellcome Trust Sanger InstituteThirteen year old, rejected by her husband after a traumatic labour, Terefa is now living in a hut far away…
A walk to beautiful, Childbirth, Maternal mortality, Obstetric fistula, Obstructed labour, OF, United Nations Population FundMalaria is one of the most dangerous diseases, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) every 45 seconds a child…
Center for Disease Control and Prevention, GlaxoSmithKline, Malaria, MSP3, RTS, S, Vaccine, WHO