A team of African and European researchers has been awarded $37 million to test an innovative combination of strategies to prevent HIV in African countries.
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About 24 African countries are to benefit from a new United Nations funded initiative that hopes to deliver vital immunizations to needy children in 37 developing nations against diarrhoea and pneumonia.
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A locally-developed herbal drug for the management of herpes infection by scientists at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) was recently exhibited at the 2011 Nairobi International Trade Fair.
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The Vaginal and Oral Interventions to Control the Epidemic (VOICE) study involving more than 5,000 HIV-negative women in South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe has suffered a setback following the termination of one leg of the trials for ineffectiveness.
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African Heads of State and Government and international partners have launched a new innovative tool to track progress in the fight against malaria.
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A new study conducted in Zambia has identified an insecticide described as effective for Indoor Residual Spraying against insecticide resistant mosquitoes
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A new index produced by the charity Save the Children has ranked Chad, Somalia, Laos, Ethiopia and Nigeria as the most dangerous countries for a child to fall sick. Nigeria has however contested the ranking. [Next story]
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The Nigerian government has said that the global health worker’s index rating her as one of the worst countries in the world for a child to be sick is premised on obsolete data.
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The sixty-first session of the World Health Organisation’s Regional Committee for Africa has, in Yamoussoukro, Cote D’Ivoire, adopted a framework for the formation of an African Health Emergency Fund.
Continue reading …South Africa rolls out medical male circumcision amidst debate on efficacy
August 29, 2011 No Comment
South Africa is set to commence massive medical male circumcision as part of an overall national strategy to reduce HIV infection among men in the country.
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