On Wednesday, 1st August, WHO Lesotho Country Representative, Dr. Jacob Mufunda, undertook a press briefing session with the national media to inform them about the recent establishment of the African Public Health Emerg…
Read moreInside this issue Highlights World TB Awareness Week, March 2012 World Health Day, April 2012 World No Tobacco Day, May 2012 The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare Launches Decentralization of Primary He…
Read more“The HIV/TB combination is probably one of the biggest challenges for health in Lesotho. 2012 is the time for a massive scale up of access to treatment for TB and HIV” -Dr. Mphu Ramatlapeng, Minister of Health and S…
Read moreLesotho, often called the "Kingdom in the sky", has one of the highest rates of new tuberculosis (TB) cases in the world. The lack of health-care facilities in remote areas makes it hard for people with TB to get tested …
Read moreThe World AIDS Day (WAD) national commemoration was marked on the 1st December,2011 at Ha Mabote in Maseru District. The theme for this year is “Getting to zero: zero new HIV infections. Zero discrimination. Zero AIDS re…
Read moreThe Decade of Action for Road Safety (2011-2020), proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in March 2010, was officially launched on May 11th at the Convention Center in Maseru, Lesotho. Road traffic accidents a…
Read moreWorld TB Day was celebrated on 24th March at Botsabelo Multi–Drug Resistant (MDR)/ Extensively-Drug Resistant (XDR) TB Hospital in Maseru. This is a modern state of the art facility that reflects innovative ways in manag…
Read more4 April 2008, Maseru -- In 2004, Lesotho became one of the first countries in the world to launch a nationwide effort to test its entire population for HIV. The initiative was introduced as the ‘Know Your Status Cam…
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