http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing EssentialAfrica Drum Health en 60 http://www.rnw.nl/africa/article/child-killing-northern-ghana-part-2 Something sinister is taking place in communities around Saboba, Chereponi and Sang near Yendi in northern Ghana. Innocent children are being killed because they are either born deformed or their mothers died after giving birth to them. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#10361 Tue, 22 May 2012 17:23:56 +0200 http://www.ifrc.org/en/news-and-media/news-stories/africa/chad/health-centres-stretched-as-infant-malnutrition-rises-57630/ “Each year the number of children we see goes up,” says Mahamat Abacar, health focal point at Mao hospital in northern Chad. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#10316 Fri, 18 May 2012 11:24:30 +0200 http://reliefweb.int/node/497497?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ReliefwebUpdates+%28ReliefWeb+-+Latest+Updates%29 The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$28.2 million to strengthen basic health services in the Central African Republic (CAR). http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#10314 Fri, 18 May 2012 11:03:23 +0200 http://www.newtimes.co.rw/news/index.php?i=14995&a=53739 Police have arrested a medical doctor in connection with the case of a woman whose life was saved by medics in January this year after they removed several surgical tools http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#10313 Fri, 18 May 2012 10:52:12 +0200 http://www.africom.mil/getArticle.asp?art=7914&lang=0 Exercise Participants Begin Testing Burkina Faso's Pandemic Response Preparedness and Response Plans http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#10308 Fri, 18 May 2012 10:07:21 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE84E04S20120515 Africa needs to boost agricultural productivity and address the debilitating hunger that affects 27 percent of its population if it is to sustain its economic boom http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#10280 Tue, 15 May 2012 13:20:31 +0200 http://www.timeslive.co.za/africa/2012/05/11/1500-children-in-nigerian-village-suffer-lead-poisoning International medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says that 1,500 children in a mining village in northwest Nigeria have suffered lead-poisoning and are not receiving care. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#10238 Fri, 11 May 2012 14:46:45 +0200 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18018071 Most deaths of young children around the world are from mainly preventable infectious causes, experts have said. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#10227 Fri, 11 May 2012 10:49:37 +0200 http://www.newera.com.na/articles/44844/Thousands-of-new-HIV-infections Approximately 10 000 people are infected with HIV every year in Namibia, http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#10221 Thu, 10 May 2012 16:55:18 +0200 http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Malaria-outbreak-kills-7-in-Madagascar-20120510 A particularly severe outbreak of malaria in Madagascar has killed seven people http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#10216 Thu, 10 May 2012 16:49:37 +0200 http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/decapua_mothers_report_8may12-150591005.html A new report says Norway is the best place in the world to be a mother, while Niger is the worst. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#10199 Wed, 9 May 2012 15:53:39 +0200 http://www.newera.com.na/articles/44807/Alarming--Almost-one-third-of-children-stunted- Stunting affects almost one third of the country’s children and the latest estimates indicate that 38 percent of children in the 18 to 23 month age http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#10198 Wed, 9 May 2012 15:52:26 +0200 http://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?id=28&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=96682&no_cache=1 WITH the launch of the Fertility Clinic in Windhoek last month, In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) is at long last becoming a reality in Namibia http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#10163 Mon, 7 May 2012 17:28:46 +0200 http://somalilandsun.com/index.php/community/612-somaliland-chickenpox-engulfs-togdheer According to the Togdheer regional health coordinator Dr. Abdi Yasin, the disease has returned to the region in full force both in the capital Burao and several other towns and villages. This revelation was made during a press conference the regional medical team jointly held with the World Health Organization-WHO ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#10084 Wed, 2 May 2012 10:32:19 +0200 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17865404 Ghana has become the first country in Africa to start protecting children against two of the continent's deadliest infant diseases with simultaneous vaccinations. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#10051 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:43:50 +0200 http://www.trust.org/alertnet/blogs/health-and-science/football-fashion-fruit-and-fishing-101-uses-for-a-net In a podcast to mark World Malaria Day, 25th April 2012, Christian Aid discovers the supreme versatility of the humble malaria net. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#10028 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 17:28:21 +0200 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE83O02820120425 Malaria cases treated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) more than tripled to 155,000 last year from two years previous, the aid agency said on Tuesday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#10019 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:58:30 +0200 http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/630447-three-million-ugandans-lack-latrines.html Uganda needs 650,000 more latrines to ensure that every Ugandan has access to a latrine. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9931 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:39:12 +0200 http://www.independent.co.ug/news/news/5621-poor-sanitation-costs-uganda-shs-389-billion-annually According to the new report released by the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program on April 17, Uganda loses 389 billion Ugandan shillings each year due to poor sanitation. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9917 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:33:35 +0200 http://allafrica.com/stories/201204120051.html Every day about 2,000 children in Africa die of diarrhoea caused by drinking dirty water, the WaterAid country representative, Alice Anukur has said. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9855 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:31:53 +0200 http://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2012/04/07/unaids-nepad-sign-pact-on-africas-aids-response-development-agenda/ ...signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) calling for strategic collaboration to advance sustainable responses to HIV, health and development across the African continent. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9790 Sat, 7 Apr 2012 16:11:47 +0200 http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95139/UGANDA-Meningitis-outbreak-kills-16-in-north At least 16 people have died in a meningitis epidemic in two districts in northern Uganda over the past three weeks, say health officials. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9575 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:01:12 +0100 http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Kenya+ranked+among+world+top+TB+carriers+/-/1056/1370806/-/sd0cuj/-/ Kenya is ranked among 22 countries with the highest tuberculosis burden in the world, Public Health and Sanitation minister Beth Mugo has announced. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9548 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 08:31:02 +0100 http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate+News/Pfizer+wages+war+on+fake+drugs+with+mobile+detectors+/-/539550/1370264/-/t29wvf/-/index.html Global pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is distributing mobile detectors of fake drugs in a move aimed at halting trade in counterfeits, which has considerably eaten into its market in Africa. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9536 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 10:23:33 +0100 http://www.africareview.com/News/Africa+sex+workers+top+HIV+infection+list/-/979180/1369218/-/sctcvvz/-/index.html Prostitutes in sub-Saharan Africa have one of the highest rates of HIV infections in the world, an international study has established. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9514 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:41:29 +0100 http://newsone.com/world/brettjohnson35/hiv-positive-students-tanzania-red-ribbons-stigma/ Several outraged AIDS activists in Tanzania have denounced some local school administrators for forcing HIV-positive students to wear special uniforms adorned with red ribbons, according to a BBC news report. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9461 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:18:43 +0100 http://www.nation.co.ke/News/Reprieve+as+nurses+call+off+strike+/-/1056/1366764/-/tqvnb5z/-/index.html The two-week strike by nurses and other health workers was on Wednesday called-off following a meeting between union leaders and Prime Minister Raila Odinga. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9442 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:56:00 +0100 http://www.nation.co.ke/News/africa/Egyptians+design+faster+cheaper+hepatitis+C+test+/-/1066/1366420/-/f1fvcn/-/index.html The American University in Cairo said Wednesday that a team of its researchers has designed a faster and cheaper test for all types of hepatitis C, which it says affects about 10 million Egyptians. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9441 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 08:54:19 +0100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17350567 Uganda has opened its first clinics specifically set up to help thousands of children who have a mysterious fatal condition known as nodding syndrome. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9426 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:28:53 +0100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17350567 Uganda has opened its first clinics specifically set up to help thousands of children who have a mysterious fatal condition known as nodding syndrome. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9409 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:48:33 +0100 http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/mysterious-nodding-syndrome-affects-many-ugandan-children-experts-seek-cause/2012/03/07/gIQAKwNw7R_story.html Most mornings, Michael Odongkara takes his daughter Nancy Lamwaka outside and ties her ankle to a mango tree. It’s not something he likes to do. But the disease that gives the 12-year-old violent seizures has so diminished her mental capacity that she no longer talks and often wanders off. Once, ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9404 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:49:03 +0100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17308913 Oxfam says urgent action is needed to stop drought in the Sahel region of West Africa turning into a humanitarian disaster affecting 13 million people. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9356 Fri, 9 Mar 2012 07:47:26 +0100 http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1361002/-/axes6qz/-/index.html Experts have said they are getting clues that the black fly associated with river blindness could be the cause of nodding disease. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9329 Wed, 7 Mar 2012 08:43:23 +0100 http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/Gabon-Government-Improves-Public-Access-to-Healthcare--141502813.html In Gabon, officials say the construction of health institutions including the new but yet to be opened Cancer Treatment Center is a government priority ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9298 Tue, 6 Mar 2012 07:58:04 +0100 http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/east/Recovering-Addicts-Lead-Effort-to-Kick-Zanzibars-Heroin-Habit-141410653.html The tiny Tanzanian island of Zanzibar is grappling with the problem of drug addiction http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9291 Mon, 5 Mar 2012 15:11:25 +0100 http://inewp.com/?p=11215 Established by world’s renowned Australian Ophthalmologist, the Eritrea based Fred Hollows Intraocular Laboratory (IOL) so far exports over 2.2 million intraocular lenses to more than 50 countries in Asia, Africa, Oceania and Europe ever since its inception in 1994. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9242 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:08:58 +0100 http://www.times.co.sz/News/72817.html Minister of Health, Benedict Xaba, yesterday launched the Essential Health Care Package (EHCP) that aims to improve the provision of primary health care in Swaziland. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9171 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:43:21 +0100 http://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/cholera-spreading-in-drc-1.1239409 A cholera epidemic has spread to nine out of 11 provinces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the UN said http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9153 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:53:05 +0100 http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/decapua-hiv-women-16feb12-139432163.html The findings are based on a study of 13 to 22 year old women in the Zomba district of Malawi. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9097 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:12:36 +0100 http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106751&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Burkina Faso's Network for Access to Essential Medicines (RAME) has called on the Burkinabè government to increase the budget allocation .... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9066 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:26:30 +0100 http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/pan/decapua-hiv-africa-men-13feb12-139213879.html A new study says men in sub-Saharan Africa are not accessing HIV/AIDS treatment nearly as often as women. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9041 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:27:14 +0100 http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=106703&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter They survived floods and witnessed the horrific scenes of their houses, livestock, household items and gardens being swept away at the end of January. Now,... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#9007 Thu, 9 Feb 2012 15:28:07 +0100 http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/628873-uganda-makes-new-aids-drug.html Quality Chemicals, a Ugandanbased pharmaceutical company, will next month start producing a new anti-retroviral(ARV) drug, Tenofovir. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#8980 Wed, 8 Feb 2012 10:49:03 +0100 http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/02/07/nigeria-child-lead-poisoning-crisis Thousands of children in northern Nigeria need immediate medical treatment... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#8972 Tue, 7 Feb 2012 15:28:41 +0100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16854026 Worldwide malaria deaths may be almost twice as high as previously estimated, a study reports...While most deaths were among young children and in Africa, the researchers noted a higher proportion of deaths among older children and adults than previously estimated... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#8925 Sat, 4 Feb 2012 11:28:21 +0100 http://mg.co.za/article/2012-02-03-officials-warn-of-malaria-infections-in-sa/ Six people have been diagnosed with malaria in Tshwane in Gauteng without visiting malaria areas... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#8907 Fri, 3 Feb 2012 09:19:22 +0100 http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/01/can-new-circumcision-devices-help-fight-aids-in-africa/ Circumcision can help drop the rate of HIV infection in Africa. The challenge is getting more men snipped more quickly http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#8901 Thu, 2 Feb 2012 15:21:29 +0100 http://www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/un-predicts-massive-fall-in-sa-aids-cases-1.1216826 South Africa, home to the highest number of HIV cases in the world,... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#8692 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:00:03 +0100 http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1310634/-/b1i271z/-/index.html The escalation of the nodding disease syndrome in northern Uganda could have been avoided if government had implemented research recommendations availed to it in 2009 by health experts, Daily Monitor has learnt. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#8688 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:21:08 +0100 http://www.voanews.com/english/news/africa/west/In-Senegals-Prisons-a-Small-Victory-for-AIDS-Awareness-137682203.html At Camp Penal maximum-security prison in Dakar, Amadou, who withholds his real name to protect his identity, is talking to his sixth and last group of prisoners about AIDS. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-health-wellbeing#8682 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 07:57:19 +0100