Addis Ababa, 8 December 2011 -- Fourteen eastern and southern African countries have made steady progress in voluntary male medical circumcision (VMMC) with more than 1. 2 million males having undergone the procedur…
Read moreAddis Ababa, 4 December 2011 -- The 16th International Conference on HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) got underway in Addis Ababa on Sunday with political and health leaders calling on gover…
Read moreBrazzaville, 24 November 2011 -- Disease outbreaks, floods, droughts, communal tensions, civil strife -- Africa faces some of the world’s worst natural and man-made disasters which leave thousands dead,…
Read moreBrazzaville, 19 November 2011 -- The African Advisory Committee on Health Research and Development (AACHRD) has recommended critical areas for action by the World Health Organization (WHO) in developing a regional r…
Read moreBrazzaville, 17 November 2011 -- The results of research can help countries to formulate policies to address the menace of diseases and other barriers to health including key dete…
Read moreThe teenage girls queuing up inside the Girls Senior High School in Tamale, the capital of the Northern Region of Ghana, fan away the hot air with their vaccination cards. Today’s immunization campaign is a welcome break…
Read moreKampala, 4th November 2011 -- The mood was upbeat; the place immaculately spruced and decorated; journalists paced up and down clicking their cameras at every opportunity; there was live broadcast on national televi…
Read moreBrazzaville, 31 October 2011 -- An expert consultation on malaria vector control has ended in Brazzaville, Congo, with key recommendations on principles and decision making criteria upon which vector control method…
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