Tag Archives: Conditions and Diseases
By Imogen Lamb, April 25 is World Malaria Day, a day designed to highlight a disease that continues to kill almost 700,000 people around the world every year. Most of the deaths occur in young children under five years old. … read more »
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Last year on World Malaria Day, we mourned the fact that one child died every 45 seconds from this disease. This year, we have managed to slow the clock. It remains a monumental tragedy that one child dies every minute … read more »
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September 16, 2011 by benim
Sixty percent of the 1,2 million people living with HIV and Aids in Zimbabwe are women, a recent survey has revealed. The survey, contained in a report titled: “Know your Epidemic – Know your Response”, indicated that only 20 percent … read more »
Posted in AIDS/HIV, Health, News, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged AIDS, Conditions and Diseases, Gender equality, Health, HIV, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Nigeria, Nigeria news, Nigeria online, North Africa, Olivia Muchena, Pan African News, Southern Africa, Vertical transmission, West Africa, Zimbabwe
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September 14, 2011 by benim
The World Health Organization says chronic diseases, like heart disease, diabetes, and cancer, are the world’s leading killer — and it says many of those lives could be saved by simple diet and lifestyle changes. In a new report released … read more »
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Yaounde – Cameroonian Prime Minister Philemon Yang on Saturday launched an anti-malaria campaign, promising to distribute nine million free mosquito nets. The nationwide campaign named “KO palu” (knock out malaria) will last a month and aims to ensure that the … read more »
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Harare – A Zimbabwean parliamentarian has called on scientists to develop a chemical to dull men’s libido and enable them to have sex once a month to curb the spread of HIV/Aids, a state daily reported. Senator Sithembile Mlotshwa told … read more »
Posted in AIDS/HIV, Health, News, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
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As Kenya begins its first National AIDS Conference in Nairobi, hundreds of Kenyans living with HIV have gathered to demand that promises are kept in fighting the disease. On Wednesday morning, Kenya’s Minister for Special Programs Esther Murugi opened the … read more »
Posted in AIDS/HIV, East Africa, Health, Kenya, News
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Tagged About Africa, Africa news, African History, African Maps, Aid, All Africa, Antiretroviral drug, Arab League, breaking news, Conditions and Diseases, East Africa, Health, HIV, IndepthAfrica, IndepthGhana, IndepthMultimedia, IndepthNigeria, IndepthSouthAfrica, IndepthWorld, Kenya, Nairobi, North Africa, Pan African News, Southern Africa, West Africa
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February 4, 2011 by benim
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s advertising authority on Thursday ordered a Nigerian church to stop making claims on national television that it can treat diseases such AIDS through faith healing. The ruling was made after anti-AIDS campaigners filed a complaint against … read more »
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Tagged Africa maps, Africa news, African news, AIDS, breaking news, Conditions and Diseases, Elections, Embassies and Consulates, Healing School, Health, HIV, Indepth Africa Magazine, Indepth Nigeria, IndepthAfrica, IndepthNigeria, News local news, newspapers, Nigeria, Nigeria 2011 elections, Nigeria news, Nigerian, South Africa, Treatment Action Campaign, World news
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December 29, 2010 by benim
Uganda is planning to inoculate 2.5 million residents in the East African nation’s northern districts, where a yellow fever outbreak has killed 45 people and sickened another 183. The outbreak began in early November but was not confirmed as yellow … read more »
Posted in East Africa, Health, News, Uganda
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Tagged Africa news, African news, breaking news, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Conditions and Diseases, Dengue fever, Health, IndepthAfrica, infectious disease, News local news, newspapers, Uganda, World Health Organization, World news, Yellow fever
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November 30, 2010 by benim
Mbabane, Swaziland – One year ago, in the small Southern African kingdom of Swaziland, 25-year-old Zanele Mamba was living on the edge. She and her husband, Mfanzile Dlamini, were HIV-positive and had already lost two babies to Aids. They lived … read more »
Posted in AIDS/HIV, News, Southern Africa, Swaziland
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Tagged AIDS, Conditions and Diseases, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation, Health, HIV, HIV test, Mbabane, Mfanzile Dlamini
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November 30, 2010 by benim
Kampala – Uganda on Monday launched a programme to circumcise over a million men every year in a bid to stem the increase in HIV/Aids infections. “Uganda still has a big epidemic of HIV and last year, we had 123 … read more »
Posted in AIDS/HIV, East Africa, Health, News, Uganda
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Tagged Africa news, AIDS, Circumcision, Conditions and Diseases, Health, HIV, Indepth Africa Magazine, IndepthAfrica, South Africa, Uganda
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October 27, 2010 by benim
A new study says taller men have a greater chance of developing testicular cancer, but experts say that’s no reason to panic. The study, published this week in the British Medical Journal, analyzed the medical files of 10,000 men from … read more »
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Tagged Andrology, Cancer, Cancer Research UK, cancer screening, Conditions and Diseases, Health Medical Pharma, health-news, IndepthAfrica, London, Medicine, scrotum, testicle, testicular cancer, Testicular microlithiasis, United Kingdom, X Testicular cancer
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October 20, 2010 by benim
For the occasion of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this October, 2010, here are some of the facts that some women don’t know about their breasts. Other than Breast Cancer, a major disease affecting a lot of women all over the … read more »
Posted in Health, Lifestyle, Women
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Tagged Africa news, Awareness, Breast, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Conditions and Diseases, Health, Indepth Africa, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, United States
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October 19, 2010 by benim
GALZ supports calls by the Ministry of Health and Child welfare to provide condoms to prisoners as a noble move in fighting HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe’s prisons. The danger of sexual violence in prisons is extremely increased under conditions of severe … read more »
Posted in AIDS/HIV, Health, News, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe
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Tagged Africa news, AIDS, Conditions and Diseases, Condom, Health, HIV, Indepth Africa, Prison, Sexually transmitted disease, Zimbabwe
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October 16, 2010 by benim
Maputo — All Mozambican state institutions are to include the fight against HIV/AIDS in their planning cycle, in order to encourage joint action to block the spread of the epidemic. Announcing this in Maputo on Thursday, Public Service Minister Vitoria … read more »
Posted in AIDS/HIV, Health, Mozambique, Southern Africa
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Tagged Africa news, AIDS, Antiretroviral drug, Conditions and Diseases, Health, HIV, Immune Deficiency, Immune Disorders, Indepth Africa, Maputo, Mozambique
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