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More than a third of malaria drugs examined by scientists in Southeast Asia were fake, and a similar proportion analysed in Africa were below standard, doctors warned on Tuesday. "These findings are a wake-up call demanding a series of interventions to better define and eliminate both criminal production and poor manufacturing of antimalarial drugs," said Joel Breman of the Fogarty
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SOME 35 NGOs have teamed up to petition the government, urging it to allocate adequate budget for maternal and newborn health during the 2012/2013 financial year. The activists met in Dar es Salaam over the weekend and agreed to engage policy makers especially MPs to push for increased budget allocation. "The maternal and newborn health sector has been allocated only
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Kinshasa — ore than 7,500 cholera cases have been identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) since the beginning of the year as an epidemic that began in June 2011 continues to affect parts if the capital, Kinshasa, as well as four other provinces. In total, more than 30,000 cholera cases have been identified around the country since the
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Nairobi — Malaria is in the bull's eye of a global campaign. The target is zero malaria deaths by 2015. The challenge is how to get there -- and stay there. Nearly 2,000 children die every day from malaria, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). For much of the past decade, malaria has killed as many as a million
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Kampala — The National Drug Authority in Uganda has in recent years been overwhelmed by the amount of counterfeit drugs in the market that have endangered lives. According to Ms. Kate Kikule, the Head of Drug Inspectorate Services at NDA, the fake drugs mainly from China and India are becoming difficult to monitor because of technological advancement. "Counterfeits are endangering
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A total of 7.6 million children were immunised against polio in Kano State during the just concluded second round of the immunization exercise in the state. Kano State deputy governor, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje told reporters on the latest polio immunisation campaign in the state, added that the state government had mapped out strategies aimed at ensuring that Kano maintained
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Military officers and officials of the United State government yesterday commenced a 3-day workshop in Abuja on how to fight HIV/AIDS scourge in the armed forces. About 11, 014 HIV infected soldiers are currently receiving Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs in 24 military clinics across the country. The Chairman of the Emergency Plan Implementation Committee, Ministry of Defence, Major General Tahir Umar,
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Brazzaville — A cholera outbreak is adding to the woes of thousands of people displaced by a huge munitions blast in the Congolese capital Brazzaville about a month ago, say officials. "We have 10 confirmed cases of cholera," Youssouf Gamatié, the UN World Health Organization's representative in Congo, told IRIN. Poor hygiene and sanitation conditions in the sites for the
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The American University in Cairo said Wednesday that a team of its researchers has designed a faster and cheaper test for all types of hepatitis C, which it says affects about 10 million Egyptians. The development "reduces the two-step testing process carried out over a number of days to a one-step process that takes less than an hour... at a
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Nairobi — Lack of adherence to the full course of Artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) treatment is threatening the effectiveness of the drug recommended as first-line treatment for uncomplicated malaria in countries where the disease is endemic, according to recent studies. In Siaya district of western Kenya, where malaria is particularly prevalent (38 percent incidence in 2010), a study revealed that
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Kenya's public hospitals face a potentially devastating health worker shortage after the government said Thursday it had fired 25,000 striking nurses. The nurses went on strike March 1 to protest the government's failure to implement a salary increase agreed last year, when they also stopped work to press for improved services in Kenya's mostly ill-equipped public hospitals. Government spokesman Alfred
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Dakar - The United Nations Children's Fund on Tuesday appealed to western African governments to prevent a new cholera outbreak, after the disease claimed nearly 3 000 lives there last year. Unicef's regional bureau said that "at least 105 248 cases of cholera were registered in 17 countries in 2011, and 2 898 people died" in what was one of
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Conakry - A cholera outbreak in western Guinea has killed at least 14 people over the past month, a source at the health and public hygiene ministry said on Monday. "The cholera epidemic that has reappeared a month ago concerns coastal communities of Forecariah and Boffa... and a medical team sent to the scene has recorded 14 deaths," out of
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Freetown - A cholera outbreak in northern Sierra Leone has claimed the lives of 17 people since mid-February, district medical officer Tom Sesay said on Thursday. "Cholera has gripped the districts of Port Loko and Kambia," the doctor said, adding that around 433 people had been admitted to hospital and emergency health teams where investigating the origins of the outbreak.
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The health system in Ghana is constrained in its fight against the HIV/AIDS menace by limited skilled health workforce and unsustainable financing. For instance, as at 2009 Ghana had only 2064 doctors (10,000 population per 1), 13,564 nurses/midwives (10,000 population per 6), 1,798 pharmacists, 558 medical assistants and 15,549 allied health professionals currently in Ghana. Deficiencies in human resources for
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Dakar — The Nigerian government has stood back and watched while hundreds of children in the northwestern state of Zamfara have died of lead poisoning, and hundreds more been affected by it over the past two years, say rights groups and the local authorities. At least 400 children who had worked in artisanal gold mines were reported to have died
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Brazzaville - A health official says the small Republic of Congo has seen about 340 cholera cases in recent months. Dr Jean Martim Mabiala said on Monday on national radio that there have been nine cholera deaths since June in the area of Likouala, about 800km north of the capital. The Republic of Congo is often overshadowed by its much
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Douala — UK researchers have discovered how the drugs that are currently used to treat sleeping sickness work at the molecular level, potentially opening the way to tackling growing resistance to the drugs. Sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) is caused by Trypanosoma brucei parasites and is transmitted by the tsetse fly in Sub-Saharan Africa, where the disease affected around 30,000
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Kampala — The Global Fund to fight HIV, TB and Malaria has given Uganda the least amount of funding compare to other East African member states because of corruption and earlier mismanagement of the fund. According to Prof. Vinand Nantulya, the chairman Uganda Aids Commission, Ethiopia got $1.2 billion, of the fund to fight HIV, TB and malaria, Tanzania received
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Accra — The incessant buzzing of mosquitoes was the first sign that there was something wrong. While Bernard Akumiah could clearly hear the small insects, there were none within his vicinity. The buzzing of mosquitoes eventually turned into voices coming from nearby rooms. The voices sounded as though they were in French, a language neither Akumiah nor his brother, with
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Health and Child Welfare Minister Dr Henry Madzorera has said that the typhoid outbreak is due to people eating human waste. "The mode of transmission for typhoid is the faecal-oral route, that is, through ingestion of bacteria in food or water contaminated with faeces of infected persons. "In simple terms, it simply means people are eating their own faeces." Addressing
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Chinhoyi — GOVERNMENT says the typhoid outbreak is under control, but is worried that some of the cases could have evolved to carrier state, making prospects of further outbreaks imminent. More than 1 000 cases have been recorded in Harare. Speaking at the Chinhoyi Press Club last Friday, Health and Child Welfare Deputy Minister Dr Douglas Mombeshora said at its
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Juba — 16-year old Nyayan Giet lies helpless on a metallic bed in a maternity ward at Walgak Primary Health Care Center (PHCC) as she quietly stares at at roof with no ceiling. Her husband and a relative closely monitor her condition. "She is suffering from malaria. She was brought a few days back after giving birth to her baby,"
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COUNCIL has failed to address the social determinants leading to diarrheal diseases, typhoid included, and is appealing for Government's intervention to holistically arrest the crisis, a senior official admitted yesterday. Briefing Kuwadzana East legislator Mr Nelson Chamisa during a visit to the Kuwadzana Polyclinic yesterday, council's health services director Dr Prosper Chonzi said current interventions are reactive rather than proactive.
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Harare - An independent doctors' group in Zimbabwe is reporting 800 cases of the bacterial disease typhoid in a recent outbreak. No deaths have been reported in the past three weeks. The Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights said on Sunday that the nation's troubled coalition government lacked urgency in dealing with public health woes. In a statement, the
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