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  • Burkina Faso forum:regional health professionals

    BURKINA FASO, 2013/02/24 West African health actors who met in a workshop from 20 to 22 February in Ouagadougou, the Burkinabe capital, have recommended the establishment of a West African network to exchange and share strategies aimed at ensuring the universal medical coverage of the citizens

  • Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,

    MOZAMBIQUE, 2013/02/14 Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, made the announcement on Wednesday in his annual letter. The award recognizes \"revolutionary ways\" for immunizing the world\'s poorest children. Nominees are assessed on innovation and creativity, impact and scale.

  • UN launch "mhealth" initiative to fight diseases

    AFRICA, 2013/02/11 Imagine getting a text message telling you at the same time as and how to take your diabetes medication. Or a voice mail reminding you of your next mammogram. That’s what two UN agencies are hoping to do with mobile technology to save lives, reduce illness and disability and bring down healthcare costs.

  • The cholera outbreak in Guinea and Sierra Leone

    GUINEA, 2013/01/05 The cholera outbreak in Guinea and Sierra Leone that has killed 392 people and infected additional than 25,000 others since February is slowing down, say aid groups calling for sustained measures to wipe out the disease. Between late August and 16 September, new cholera cases per week have dropped from 2,110 to 1,418 in Sierra Leone, and from 1,152 to 346 in neighbouring Guinea, the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a statement.

  • National Minister of Health, Dr. Michael Milly Hussein.

    SOUTH SUDAN, 2013/01/04 South Sudan still experiences poor health care conditions resulting in maternal and child mortality, and malnutrition, due to lack of access to reproductive health services, says the National Minister of Health, Dr. Michael Milly Hussein.  Dr. Milly was speaking to the press, Wednesday, as South Sudan was preparing to celebrate the World People Day, 26 July, 2012, under the theme,” Universal Access to Reproductive Services”.

  • 100 Millionth Person Receives Lifesaving Meningitis Vaccine

    BURKINA FASO, 2012/12/08 A revolutionary meningitis vaccine will reach the 100 millionth person this week in a region of Africa that has been plagued by deadly epidemics for extra than a century. The milestone will take place in northern Nigeria, among of Africa's "meningitis belt," where the country is conducting its second seasonal immunisation campaign against the disease.

  • aiming for regional bio-pharmacy supremacy

    ALGERIA, 2012/12/08 Biopharmaceutical experts from Algeria and the United states alongside government officials met to discuss over modeling Algeria to become the best in the region before 2020 in terms of bio-pharmacy and healthcare. The discussions were held at the Algeria 2020 Partnership Conference which sets its goal towards promoting business partnership, innovations, expanded research and development in the country inclunding means of launching programs for increased academic and training exchanges, and the potential to incentivize in-country production.

  • Bridging the gap in healthcare provision

    NAMIBIA, 2012/11/26 At 26 years of age Vemupomanda Tjivinda commands a lot of respect among his fellow Himbas, a community of pastoral nomads that roam Namibia’s hard-to-reach Kunene region with their goats and cattle in search of water and grazing.

  • Morocco: Pharmaceuticals sector increasing access to medication 2012-11-01

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  • Pharmaceuticals sector increasing access to medication 2012-10-30

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