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Preventable Diseases - Africa
HEALTH: HIV/AIDS – The World on a Quest for a Vaccine
Two centuries ago, the Spanish monarchy sent a group of orphans on a ship to its colonies in the Americas. The children served as living vessels for the vaccine against smallpox, the equivalent at the time of today's HIV, or AIDS virus.HEALTH: Vaccines Spark Controversy In Nigeria
The government of Nigeria has rushed health workers to Daramba, a village on the border with Niger, following an outbreak of whooping cough - one of the six main killer diseases for children.DEVELOPMENT: Battle Malnutrition Now – or Watch it Rise – Agencies
If the world does not take concrete steps to fight child hunger in the next few years, it could see one in four of its children malnourished within a half century, says a new report.HEALTH-UGANDA: Measles Vaccination Raises Controversy
Uganda's health officials should heave a sigh of relief following 'successful' measles immunisation campaigns, which targeted 12.7 million children.HEALTH: Quest for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Gains Momentum
Developing a vaccine to prevent HIV/AIDS infection and establishing manufacturing and distribution networks are crucial to the long-term global fight against HIV/AIDS, said a panel of scientists Wednesday.HEALTH-CAMEROON: Malnutrition, Disease Stunt Children’s Growth
Cameroon is not known for the famine and drought that devastate much of Africa each year. Blessed with abundant rainfall, it is part of the equatorial forest where surplus food is always produced.HEALTH-NIGERIA: A Setback for Polio
A claim by an Islamic group that polio vaccines, being administered on children, contain anti-fertility agents poses serious setback for government's efforts to eradiate the disease by the end of the year, according to health officials.HEALTH-SOUTH AFRICA: Gov’t Reluctant to Approve Anti-AIDS Drugs
The South African government's efforts to tackle the AIDS epidemic are persistently overshadowed by its apparent determination to delay introducing a treatment programme for people living with the disease.HEALTH-MALAWI: Quest for Cheap AIDS Treatment Fuels Fake Drugs Boom
Many Malawians living with HIV/AIDS are forced to rely on illegal drugs in a bid to treat opportunistic illnesses, ease suffering and prolong their lives.SCIENCE: Vials and Trials Inch Closer to Malaria Vaccine
The development of a vaccine against malaria could be five to eight years away, a leading researcher says.AFRICA: Pregnancy Illness Devastates 100,000 Women Yearly
Alarmed by a new study that found millions of African women continue to suffer and even die from the pregnancy-related condition fistula, U.N. officials and public health activists are asking rich nations for help in setting up treatment facilities on the continent.HEALTH-MALAWI: SARS Causing Panic
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which has been reported in Southeast Asia and Canada, is causing panic in Southern Africa.HEALTH: SARS May Hog Headlines But Malaria Still Major Killer in Africa
-Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) may have captured the world's headlines as the most alarming worldwide health problem, displacing AIDS in the news of Africa.HEALTH: Zambia to Vaccinate Five Million Children within a Week
Zambia will embark on a week-long programme to vaccinate five million children between the ages of six months and 15 years against measles, starting on June 7.HEALTH-MALAWI: Lobbyists Smile As Anti-Smoking Treaty Starts To Bite
As next months ratification of the World Health Organisation's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) treaty begins to gather momentum, anti-smoking lobbyists in Malawi have already started to celebrate victory.HEALTH-ZAMBIA: Fighting Tuberculosis – an Uphill Battle
Frederick Tembo, 42, was afflicted by unprecedented bouts of fever, low blood pressure, poor appetite, night sweats and general body weakness. Medical doctors and traditional healers tried to help, but failed to diagnose the illness.That was in Sep 2001.ENVIRONMENT: Missing Weapons of Mass Conservation
The United Nations is not just looking for all sorts of bombs that have gone missing in Iraq, it is worrying about bees that have gone missing in Nepal.HEALTH-SENEGAL: Patients Returning to Ancient Herbal Medicine
Long forgotten, Senegalese are slowly returning to aloe, an ancient herbal medicine, which has been used in Africa and Asia for more than 6,000 years.HEALTH-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Experts Predict a Surge in Malaria Incidence
When summer rains returned to Southern Africa in 2003, following a year of drought, malaria experts predicted incidences of the disease would surge.HEALTH-SOUTHERN AFRICA: Poverty Leaves 14m Hungry, Vulnerable to AIDS
Poverty and famine have left an estimated 14 million people across Southern Africa hungry, and hunger leaves people weak and vulnerable to disease, including HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.POLITICS: World Obsessed with Iraq Must Not Ignore Africa – U.N.
- The international community and the news media are paying too much attention to Iraq and too little to the calamities facing Africa, senior U.N. officials said Wednesday.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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