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 | Ghana records major swine flu outbreak school | | Accra, Ghana (PANA) â" The Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Friday announced a maj
or outbreak of pandemic influenza H1N1 (Swine flu) in a private first cycle in A
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cra saying 16 cases had been confirmed among the pupils.
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| Low-price vaccine for children in developing world | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - GAVI Alliance, a Geneva-based public-private partnership
aimed at improving health in the worldâ?s poorest countries, has announced a fa
ll in price for one of the major combination vaccines, the pentavalent, which wi
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l enable GAVIâ?s partners to vaccinate millions of more children in the developi
ng world.
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| Senegal records decline in Malaria morbidity rate | | Kaolack, Senegal (PANA) - The morbidity rate from malaria in Senegal has gone do
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from 22.25% in 2007 to 5.62% in 2008, according to the supervisor of the Nationa
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Programme for the Fight against Malaria (PNLP), Mr. Moussa Ndour.
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| Prime Minister of Cape Verde hit by dengue fever | | Praia, Cape Verde (PANA) - Prime Minister of Cape Verde, Jose Maria Neves, is on
e of the 14,000 people affected by the dengue epidemic which has so far claimed
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ix lives in the archipelago, official sources told PANA here on Friday.
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| UNFPA gives Congo 5.6 million condoms | | Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The representative of the UN Fund for the Population
(UNFPA) in Congo, David Lawson, on Thursday presented the National Council of t
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e Fight against HIV/AIDS (CNLS) ith 5.6 million male and female condoms.
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| UNICEF launches ambitious child health campaign in Somalia | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Hundreds of Somali children and women have received a h
igh-impact life-saving health package from the UNICEF during the Child health Da
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s Campaign in the Afgoye Corridor, a 30-kilometre stretch of road west of Mogadi
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hu and the worldâ?s most densely populated settlement for the displaced.
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| Record attendance for conference on cancer in Africa | | Dar Es Salaa, Tanzania (PANA) - A record number of over 700 global government an
d health leaders convene in Dar es Saalam,
Tanzania, this week, for the 3rd African Organization for Research and Training
in Cancer (AORTIC) meeting, in efforts to avert a
devastating health and economic toll from the disease on the continent.
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| Dengue fever affects 700 in Cape Verde daily | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Cape Verde records between 700 and 800 new cases of deng
ue fever every day, the Communications Manager of the West and Central Africa Re
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ional Office of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Socie
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ies (IFRC), Ms. Noora Kero, told PANA Wednesday.
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| Report: 90 percent of Africans not protected by smoke-fee laws | | Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - With African nations poised to record the highest increa
se in the rate of tobacco use among
developing countries, nearly 90 percent of people on the continent remain witho
ut meaningful protection from secondhand
smoke, according to a new report released Wednesday.
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| Mauritius to set up high risk diseases surveillance centre | | Port Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritius will establish a centre based on the mo
del that exists in the United States, to strengthen surveillance, detection and
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ontrol high risk pandemic diseases such as "chikungunya", dengue fever and swine
flu (A H1N1), an official source told PANA here.
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| WHO supports research on genetically-modified mosquitoes | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has supported on-goi
ng research to sterilize the malaria-causing mosquito insects and called on coun
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ries to prepare policies that would enable them to effectively utilize the resul
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s of a study on how to stop the
vector from reproducing.
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| African states face new health catastrophe as GF plans budget cuts | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A global campaign is underway to urge US President Barac
k Obama to avert a looming health catastrophe that African nations face as a res
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lt of a 15 per cent budget cut, which could deny each African state as much as 1
million mosquito-bed nets a year, activists said here Thursday, ahead of a key m
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eting on future funding.
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| Nigeria records first swine flu case, but... | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Although Nigeria has now reported its first case of swin
e flu, the country is yet to be listed among African countries that have officia
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ly reported confirmed human cases of the H1N1 pandemic to the World Health Organ
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sation (WHO), PANA reported Thursday.
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| Africans urged to fight obstetrical fistula in Sub-Sahara Africa | | Tambacounda, Senegal (PANA) - The reproductive health expert of the United Natio
ns Population Fund (UNFPA), Fanding Badji, on Wednesday, in Tambacounda, 561 kil
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metres east of Dakar, the Senegalese capital, called on African governments to s
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ow more political will in the fight against obstetrical fistula in Sub-Sahara Af
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ica.
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| Jammeh resumes HIV/AIDS treatment programme | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) â" Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will resume his 'contro
versial treatment programme' for carriers of the HIV/AIDS with a new batch of pa
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ients whose ailments have reached the crisis point, Dr. Tamsir Mbowe, the Direct
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r General of the â?Presidential Treatment Programmeâ? told pro-government newsp
apers on Tuesday.
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| First clinical trial for vaccine against malaria | | Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A group of researchers announced Tuesday the launch of a
maiden clinical trial of a vaccine against malaria, which will benefit seven Af
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ican countries, an authorised source in the Rwandan capital told PANA here.
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| 'Shift malaria drugs distribution to private hospitals' | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Researchers and scientists attending a global malaria co
nference here Monday sought a bigger policy shift in the
distribution of malaria drugs to target private hospitals, most frequented by mi
llions of people seeking treatment for malaria in Africa.
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| Scientists aim high as Nairobi malaria confab opens | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The worldâ?s largest malaria conference opened here Mon
day, with a call for substantial and
sustained support for research to guide evidence-based policies and the developm
ent of new malaria tools, which together
could save countless lives.
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| Kenyan envoy dies on duty in Brazil | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyaâ?s Ambassador to Brazil, Pius Barasa Namachanja,
died of heart attack while attending a meeting to discuss agriculture at the Bra
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ilian city of Uberaba, Kenyan officials said here Friday.
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| 'Only 800 physiotherapists to 140 million Nigerians' | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The President of the Nigeria Society of Physiotherapy (N
SP), Adeoluwa Jaiyesinmi, on Thursday painted a gloomy picture of the ratio of p
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ysiotherapists to the Nigerian population, saying "there are only 800 physiother
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pists attending to 140 million Nigerians."
Jaiyesinmi made this startling revelation in his address to the golden jubilee c
elebration of the society and the 49th annual scientific conference in Lagos, th
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commercial capital of the country.
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| Global Fund, Nigeria pact provides resources for 30m bednets | | Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - The Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria and Nigeria's Ministry of Health Friday
announced a newly-signed agreement, worth US$285 million, that will
provide the resources for 30 million bednets, half the number
needed to meet universal coverage by December 2010.
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| Cholera spreads in Nigerian state, kills 70 | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Cholera, an infectious gastroenteritis disease, has cont
inued to spread in Nigeria's northern Borno state, where
it has killed 70 people in the past two weeks and forced the closure of at least
a public school, government officials said.
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| Renewed cholera outbreak kills five in Zimbabwe | | Harare, Zimbabwe (PANA) - Health authorities in Zimbabwe said Tuesday a renewed
outbreak of cholera had killed five people in two provinces, and warned of a rec
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rrence of the disease on last year's scale, in which more than 4,000 people died
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| Nigerian govt asks hospitals to treat gunshot victims | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's federal government has directed all public hos
pitals to treat victims of gunshots and road accidents without demanding a polic
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report, reversing a standing order that has led to the death of many victims, t
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e local press reported Tuesday.
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| Anti-drug campaign launched in Libya | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Kadhafi Foundation for Development (FKD) on Thursday
launched its first anti-drug campaign, entitled "Wake up, we need you!", in the
Libyan capital, Tripoli.
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| Mali marks World Handwashing Day | | Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Some 10.000 Malian children simultaneously washed their
hands with soap Thursday in Bamako, as Mali marked the second World Day for the
washing
of hands with soap.
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| Cote d'Ivoire says avian flu kills crows | | Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organis
ation (FAO) in Cote d'Ivoire on Thursday confirmed cases of the H5N1 virus (avia
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flu) in the commercial capital, Abidjan, following positive results returned o
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tests on dead crows.
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