UNICEF and the Global Fund today reinforced their long-standing partnership through a new agreement to better coordinate efforts aimed at reducing the burden of HIV, tuberculosis and malaria and improving the health of mothers, newborns, and children. [Read More]
APPROXIMATELY every two minutes, a woman dies during pregnancy or child birth. However, most of the causes of maternal deaths are highly preventable. In Zambia alone, there are an estimated 600,000 births, with about 2,600 maternal deaths and about 20,200 infant mortalities. According to the Saving Mothers, Giving Life website, maternal and newborn deaths are largely preventable and are indicative of inaccessible and poor-quality health care facilities, inadequacies of the health system, and low demand for and utilisation of maternal and newborn health services. [Read More]
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is deploying more than 60 international staff and 270 Guinean and Liberian staff to respond to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which has so far claimed 135 lives according to official numbers.
[Read More] This year, African Vaccination Week will be celebrated from 22 to 27 April under the theme --“Vaccination - a shared responsibility”. [Read More]
They are 10 in number – all physiologically complex and pathologically dangerous vector-borne diseases. The mode of their action is diabolical. The menace of their effect on health and well-being is debasing. [Read More]
Private for-profit outlets are important treatment sources for malaria in most endemic countries. However, these outlets constitute only the last link in a chain of businesses that includes manufacturers, importers and wholesalers, all of which influence the availability, price and quality of antimalarials patients can access. We present evidence on the composition, characteristics and operation of these distribution chains and of the businesses that comprise them in six endemic countries (Benin, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Uganda and Zambia). [Read More]
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have signed a memorandum of understanding to help increase access to family planning information, contraceptives and services in developing countries, particularly for young people. [Read more]
African Health Ministers expressed, Thursday, in Luanda, their commitment to the betterment of the health system in their respective countries, through the materialization of prevention and treatment of diseases programs. [Read More]
Compendium of Tools & Strategies to Achieve Universal Access to TB care for At-risk and Vulnerable Groups
The information compiled here is for the use of national TB program staff in high burden settings who are trying to identify strategies to reach at-risk and vulnerable communities more effectively. [Read More] African leaders and prominent institutions across the globe have agreed to boost local production of pharmaceutical products.
The effort, according to African Union, AU, Spokesperson, Janet Byaryhanga, is to help reduce import of pharmaceutical products into the continent from other developed nations, to engage experts in the pharmaceutical sector all over the world in order to address those involved in policy formulation in the health, finance and other sectors so as to provide all that are needed to drive the local pharmaceutical industry in Africa. [Read More] |