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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...
Source: BBC News
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Six people have been diagnosed with malaria in Tshwane in Gauteng without visiting malaria areas...
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
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Circumcision can help drop the rate of HIV infection in Africa. The challenge is getting more men snipped more quickly
Source: Time Magazine
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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.
Source: Daily Monitor
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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.
Source: VOA News
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Unsafe abortion is one of the main contributors to maternal death worldwide, and refers to procedures outside hospitals, clinics and surgeries, or without qualified medical supervision.
Source: BBC
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Hopes of controlling malaria in Africa could be wrecked by criminals...
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
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Ghana's medical team for the Africa Cup of Nations will be further strengthened with the appointment of the famous placenta healer, Mariana Kovacevic.
Source: Modern Ghana
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Kenya has recalled one million HIV testing kits because of fears about their accuracy, a health official has said.
Source: BBC
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Medical workers at Kilembe Hospital in Kasese District were shocked when they operated an expectant mother only to find body parts of the baby.
Source: allAfrica.com
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"Malaria is the main killer here in Congo, especially for pregnant women and children," says Dr Vincker Lushombo, from Save the Children, watching as each woman's details are recorded, and a net handed over with brief instructions.
Source: BBC News
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Kenya's Ministry of Health has allayed fears of an Ebola outbreak following the death of a woman at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi.
Source: Africa Review
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Rosalia Adhiambo won't take the free anti-HIV drugs that would prolong her life.
Source: Times Live
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Government has failed to diagnose the cause of the nodding disease or prescribe treatment for thousands of children suffering from the ailment in Acholi Sub-region, the Ministry of Health said yesterday.
Source: Daily Monitor
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British scientists have developed an experimental malaria vaccine that may have the potential to neutralise all strains of the most deadly species of malaria parasite.
Source: Reuters
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In an African county lacking any specialists in children's cancers, a team approach that "twins" Rwandan physicians with
Source: Medical Xpress
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Scientists have developed a vaccine that protects mice against a deadly form of the Ebola virus.
Source: BBC
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As explained by Dr. Tedros Adhanom, the launching of the plan is timely because PMTCT coverage is still low in the country due to low ANC coverage. According to UNAIDS progress report, Ethiopia is one of 22 sub-Saharan countries that have succeeded in reducing the national rate of HIV infection by 25%.
Source: icasa
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EARLY on Thursday morning, while thousands of South Africans queued to be tested for World Aids Day, actress Lesego Motsepe declared on radio: ''I am HIV-positive."
Motsepe, who played Letti Matabane on SABC3's Isidingo from 1998 to 2008,had kept her status hidden for 13 years. In fact, she only confided in her family last year.
Source: Sunday Times
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