New community-based approaches in treating and preventing malaria are starting to bear fruit. Malaria continues to take a huge toll on global health. More than one million lives are lost to the mosquito-borne illness each year, with the vast majority
The Mozambican Health Ministry signed a memorandum of understanding with Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB), the company that operates the Cahora Bassa dam on the Zambezi river, on Wednesday, valid for one year, for health services to be rendered to
Afrika Risk, an insurance company registered in Rwandan, last week signed a partnership agreement with Belgian health insurance brokers RV Assurance (RVA) to offer Rwandans foreign hospitalization insurance.
The Governor of the Erongo Region, Samuel Nuuyoma has criticised mayors in the region for their apparent lack of commitment towards the District AIDS Committees (DAC). The mayors head their respective district AIDS committees as chairpersons.
THE Cancer Association of Namibia (CAN) and its sponsor, the First National Bank of Namibia (FNB), are presenting the opera 'Cinderella' at the National Theatre in Windhoek on June 20 and 21.
The Health deputy minister, José Van-Dúnem, who is since Wednesday in the south-eastern Kuando Kubango Province, will travel Thursday to Kuchi District, 94 kilometres from Menongue City, to assess the sanitary situation and services in the locality.
Italian doctors last week arrive in Kabala, Koinadugu district to assess the immediate needs of the Kinadugu government hospital, train it nurses and offer treatments to sick people.
Health researchers and scientists have been challenged by Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang to ensure they have a full understanding of the biology of HIV and AIDS.
Nurses have called on the government to focus on Primary healthCare as a means of empowering the communities to effectively address their needs, health status and quality of their lives.
The Kamuli District HIV/Aids forum has called for the establishment of a research coordination unit as part of a process through which structures in the fight against HIV/Aids can be strengthened.
The World Bank says it is recalibrating its financing for anti-AIDS efforts in Africa, which shoulders more than two-thirds of the world's HIV/AIDS burden.
