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 | Nigeria, neighbours to meet over cholera epidemic | | Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Health Ministers in Nigeria and its neighbouring countri
es are to meet in Abuja 17-18 Oct. to deliberate on ways to curtail the spread
of the cholera epidemic that has ravaged their countries, the News Agency of Nig
eria reported Thursday.
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| Polio: 'Africa records progress in immunisation coverage' | | Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - Significant progress has been made in immunization coverage and efforts to eradicate polio in the African Region, but challenges remain and immediate remedial actions need to be taken, according to a technical document being discussed Wednesday by the ongoing 60th Session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea.
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| WHO AFRO boss proposes US$100m African health fund | | Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - The WHO Regional Director for Africa, Dr Luis
Sambo, has proposed the establishment of a
US$100 million African Public Health Emergency Fund (APHEF) to be financed from
agreed appropriations and voluntary contributions
from Member States.
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| Global financial crisis may hamper African health development | | Malabo, Equatorial Guinea (PANA) - The WHO regional Director for Africa, Dr. Lui
s Sambo, has warned there is a real danger that
funding for health development in the African Region might be adversely affected
by the ongoing global financial crisis, thereby compromising any ongoing nation
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l and international efforts in many countries to realize the Millennium Developm
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nt Goals (MDGs).
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| WHO-certified herbal anti-malaria drug for trial in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Clinical trials of a herbal anti-malaria drug, certified
by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Nigeria's National Agency for Food a
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d Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), will soon begin in four teaching ho
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pitals in Nigeria, the private Guardian newspaper reported Wednesday.
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| Gambians mark African Traditional Medicine Day | | Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Traditional medical practitioners in Gambia Tuesday mark
ed the African Traditional Medicine Day, the day set aside by the World Health O
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ganization (WHO) and the African governments for the commemoration of African tr
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ditional medicine.
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| Nigeria, US sign MOU on HIV/AIDS | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria and the United States have signed a six-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on a new partnership
framework in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
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| 2.5 million mosquito nets distributed in 2009 in Senegal | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Coordinator of the Senegal National Malaria Control
Programme (PNLP), Moussa Thior, announced on Wednesday that his institution dist
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ibuted 2.5 million mosquito nets in 2009 and is poised to reach universal covera
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e for the distribution of impregnated mosquito nets by end 2011.
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| Cholera death toll rises to 271 in Cameroon | | Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - The death toll in the cholera epidemic is still risin
g in Cameroon, where health authorities have reported 271 deaths from 3,605 pati
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nts, with 90 new cases reported in a single day in the far north of the country,
about 2,000 kms from the capital, Yaounde.
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| 48 die from gastroenteritis in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Gastroenteritis, an inflammation of the gastrointestinal
tract, has killed 48 people in two Nigerian states
in the north, the same region where cholera has claimed 360 lives so far this ye
ar, the local press reported Tuesday.
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| Cholera kills more people in Cameroon | | Yaounde Cameroon (PANA) , The cholera epidemic in Cameroon has killed 13 people
and infected 23 others
in Garoua, as the disease that has killed 220 and infected 2,500 others in the c
ountry's Far North continues to spread.
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| Cholera deaths rise to 360 in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The number of deaths from Cholera which is ravaging stat
es in northern Nigeria has increased from
231 to 360 while those infected are now 5,320, up from 4,665 last week, the loca
l media reported Monday, quoting
Nigerian health officials.
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| Ivorian experts strategize against HIV/AIDS | | Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire (PANA) - A national consultation was held Thursday in Abi
djan, the Ivorian capital, on the development of a global strategy towards the f
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ght against HIV/AIDS, at the initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO).
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| Wild polio virus still prevalent in DR Congo - Minister | | Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Wild polio virus is still prevalent in the Democrati
c Republic of Congo (DRC) after an interruption of five years between 2000 and 2
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05, the Congolese health minister, Dr Victor Makwenge, revealed in the address o
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Thursday on the occasion of the launch in Kinshasa of the immunization campaign
against the disease.
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| Cholera kills 231 in Nigeria | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The outbreak of Cholera in 11 northern states in Nigeria
have claimed 231 lives and infected
4665 people, the country's health officials said Thursday.
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| Cholera kills 222 in Cameroon | | Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - An outbreak of cholera has killed 222
people in the Cameroonian regions of Far North, North and Adamaoua,
the country's Health Minister Andre Mama Fouda announced on
Wednesday.
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| UN moves to check new HIV infections among youth | | New York, US (PANA) - The UN is partnering with the organizers of the first-ever
Youth Olympic Games to raise awareness about HIV among young people, who accoun
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for 40 per cent of all new infections, as well as fight the stigma associated w
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th the virus.
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| Former Guinea Junta leader loses son | | Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The eldest child and only son of former Guinea Military
leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, Moriba Dadis Jr, died Monday evening by dr
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wning in a family swimming pool in Montreal, Canada, PANA learnt Wednesday in Co
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akry, the Guinean capital, from a reliable source.
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| Pan-African telemedicine system launched in Tripoli | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - An electronic permanent and distant medicine (telemedicine) learning programme, connecting African hospitals and universities to their Indian counterparts, was launched Monday at the Burns Hospital in Tripoli, the Libyan capital.
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| 'Rising disease burden drives East Africa's pharmaceutical industry' | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - While infectious diseases are rampant in sub-Sa
haran Africa, urbanization and westernized lifestyles have further increased the
prevalence of non-communicable diseases, such as cancer, according to a new anal
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sis by Frost & Sullivan, the South Africa-based Growth Partnership Company.
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| Gambia validates guidelines on maternal health | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Gambia's Health and Social Welfare Department has valida
ted guidelines on maternal care which is a blueprint on ways and means of fast t
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acking efforts of reducing maternal mortality by 75% in the West African nation
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efore 2015, PANA reported from here Friday.
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| Malaria outbreak stalks IDPs camp in South Darfur | | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Heavy rains, stagnant water and the lack of she
lters and mosquito nets have added to growing concerns
of a likely outbreak of infectious diseases, especially malaria, in the Kalma ca
mp of internally displaced persons (IDP) in South Darfur,
the international peacekeeping mission there reported Friday.
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| 'Cholera kills 40 in Nigerian state' | | Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A cholera epidemic ravaging Nigeria's northern state of
Borno has left at least 40
dead and over 100 seriously ill, the private Leadership newspaper reported Frida
y.
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| Angolan hospital records over 200 deaths in first quarter 2010 | | Malanje, Angola (PANA) - No fewer than 206 deaths were reported by the Malanje P
rovince's Central Hospital, Angola, in the first quarter of this year, out of th
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6,030 patients that sought medical assistance in the health unit, PANA reported
from here Wednesday, quoting the country's news agency, ANGOP.
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| Cholera epidemic causes 130 deaths in Cameroon | | Yaounde, Cameroon (PANA) - The death toll from the cholera epidemic which has hi
t the far northern region of Cameroon has risen to more than 130 deaths with abo
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t 1,802 other cases being treated, the national radio CRTV reported, quoting the
Regional Director of Public Health, Dr. Rebecca Diaoro.
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| UN welcomes Liberian efforts to contain HIV/AIDS | | New York, US (PANA) - The UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) has welcomed the
launch of a new national strategy to combat HIV/AIDS, stressing the
importance of tackling the disease before infection rates become high in
the West African country.
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| Libya to hold AIDS awareness day | | Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya will on Monday hold an HIV/AIDS awareness day in t
he capital, Tripoli, that will focus on the partnership programmes with internat
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onal organizations and institutions in the fight against the pandemic and Sexual
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y Transmitted Diseases (STDs).
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| Mauritian hospitals to set up breastfeeding committees | | Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) - Mauritian hospitals will set up breastfeeding com
mittees comprising a paediatrician, a gynaecologist, a midwife, a community phys
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cian, a nutritionist and a breastfeeding counsellor to advise and encourage wome
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to breastfeed their babies, Health Minister Maya Hanoomanjee, announced Wednesd
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y, PANA reported from here.
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| Diouf hails Namibia's effort at curbing RVF | | Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The FAO Director-General, Jacques Diouf, has commended N
amibia for acting swiftly and effectively to halt the spread of the Rift Valley
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ever (RVF) in the country during recent outbreaks.
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| Breastfeeding key to saving children's lives - WHO | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - On the occasion of the World Breastfeeding Week, marked
1-7 August annually in more than 170 countries,
the World Health Organization (WHO) has reiterated its call on health facilities
and health workers to implement 10 steps to help
mothers breastfeed successfully and improve their babiesâ? health and chances o
f survival.
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