Women entrepreneurs from across the country showcased their goods and crafts at a week-long National Women's Exposition that ended at the weekend.

A total of 45 field officials of the Epidemics Total Control (TCE) programme from the provinces of Cunene and Bengo will attend on 04-06 July in Changalane City, Mozambique, in a forum on sharing experiences of action in HIV/Aids prevention,

Up to 183 nurses have so far been trained in a project to dispense or prescribe ARV drugs after a policy change in the country's health sector.

More women are taking antiretroviral medication in Rwanda but more men are dying during the treatment, TRAC Plus - the agency managing the ARV program says.

Worried by the rate of deaths of women at child birth, the federal government yesterday appealed to religious leaders to assist in the dissemination of information and education on the importance of healthy reproductive practices.

A medical doctor, Kenneth Akunne, who was arrested about three weeks ago for allegedly operating an illegal maternity home where 20 pregnant under-aged girls breed babies for sale, has been arraigned in the Federal High Court, Enugu.

THE health department has defended its awarding of a contract for the supply of antiretroviral drugs to Adcock-Ingram, a company which was recently fined for price fixing.

ZIMBABWE has already submitted a US$500 million application to fight HIV and Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria to the Global Fund under round 8.

The newly opened cardiac unit in the country will carry out between 100 and 150 heart surgeries per year, says the Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Social Services, Dr Norbert Forster.

The Administrator of the John F. Kennedy (JFK) Memorial Hospital, Wvannie Scott McDonald has allegedly stormed the flagpole cafeteria located on the compound of the hospital instructing private security guards to seal it off.

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MALARIA IS a mosquito-borne disease that causes over 2.7 million deaths per year according to estimates by the World Health Organization. It is also a potentially fatal blood disease caused by a parasite that is transmitted to human and animal

THE MEMBER of Parliament (MP) for Asawase, Mr. Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, has described the National Accidents and Emergency Centre (A&E Centre), currently under construction at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, as a unique and useful project.

Call it an obsession, dream or illusion but the importance of virginity is back and with a loud bang. More and more young people are deciding to remain chaste until marriage.

If the Guinness Book of Records ever decided to reward a bumbling act of brute stupidity, the Voice of Hindu's (VOH) illegal raid of Candos Hospital would surely be a shoe-in for the accolade. It is often said that idle

In a health centre 28km from Soroti town, at least 30 mothers, fathers, grandmothers, uncles, aunties sit in a queue to see the 'doctor'.