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The management of the Koforidua Hospital, in collaboration with the Nurses and Midwifery Association (NMA), has organised a five-day training workshop for its staff. (AllAfrica)

About 20 people have lost their lives and over 2,000 hospitalised following a cholera outbreak in Borno State. (AllAfrica)

The supposedly mysterious disease that has been claiming victims in Tsangano district, in the western Mozambican province of Tete, has been identified as typhoid fever, reports Friday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias". (AllAfrica)

The Wa Municipality recorded a drop in HIV prevalence rate from 5.8 percent to 2.0 per cent, a sentinel survey report from the Ministry of Health has indicated. (AllAfrica)

'Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in good health, even as thy soul prospereth,' the Deputy Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Elvis Afriyie- Ankrah, echoed these Biblical words following a health walk organized by Zenith Bank at the last weekend. (AllAfrica)

Bangladeshi twins nearly three years old, Trishna and Krishna, last Tuesday passed a 25-hour operation to be separated, foreign media reports. Conjoined twins joined at the top of the head traveled to Australia and passed a successful operation. (AllAfrica)

A collaborative effort to launch a project to revitalize the family planning and reproductive health global agenda was announced on Wednesday in Kampala by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with support from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. (AllAfrica)

Compared to non smokers impotence is approximately 85% higher in male smokers and it is a key to erectile dysfunction (ED). (AllAfrica)

The Danish Ambassador to Ghana, Mr. Stig Barlyng has advised various stakeholders in the health sector not to burden the system through unnecessary administrative and reporting parallel systems so as to ensure the best possible care for patients. (AllAfrica)

The President of Ghana Medical Association (GMA), Dr Emmanuel Adom Winful, has observed that the challenges of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) have the potential to cripple health care delivery in the country. (AllAfrica)

Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi has lashed out at hospital managers for failing to keep their hospitals clean. (AllAfrica)

HIV-positive women in western Uganda want fewer children than women not living with the virus, but often do not have access to family planning services, a new study reveals. (AllAfrica)

Fatou Manneh, an 11-month-old baby girl from New Jeshwang, is in dire need of help to undergo surgical operation in Dakar, Senegal, a medical report from the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital revealed. (AllAfrica)

Joan Katushabe, a Senior Four student at Ishaka Vocational Secondary School in Bushenyi district, is scared of the AH1N1 virus (swine flu) that attacked Kitabi Seminary which is about 20km from her school. She says the press reports and strict guidelines the school authorities have issued increased her worries about the disease, which was first detected in Mexico early this year. (AllAfrica)

On November 3, 2009, government announced a plan that will criminalise Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a cultural practice among the Sabiny of Kapchorwa and Bukwo districts, and a few communities in Moroto and Nakapiripirit districts. FGM involves partial or total removal of a woman's external genitalia without medical recommendation or for non-therapeutic reasons. (AllAfrica)

The First Lady, Hajiya Turai Yar 'Adua, has embarked on an advocacy visit to improve maternal and child survival in the country. (AllAfrica)

Residents of the Redco flats at Madina, a suburb of Accra, are complaining bitterly about the deplorable state of the flats, and the health hazards it poses. (AllAfrica)

The Ministry of Health has revealed Musanze the district most affected by Swine Flu. (AllAfrica)

In its continued quest to make Nigerians healthier and richer, Honeywell Flour Mills Plc yesterday launched Honeywell wheatmeal into the nation's market. The new product is expected to meet all nutritional and health needs of all Nigerians of all ages. (AllAfrica)

DAILY Champion newspaper has been awarded the Best Health-Friendly Newspaper for 2008 in Lagos State as the state held its 6th Health Merit Awards on Tuesday at the MUSON Centre, Lagos. (AllAfrica)

THE Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) Dr. Paul Orhii, has said Nigeria is still grappling with the challenge to make safe qualitative, affordable food and medicines available to the people. (AllAfrica)

OVER 900,000 Nigerians suffering from the dreaded HIV/AIDS are in dire need of regular supply of antiretroviral drugs, the National Action Committee Against Aids (NACA), has said. (AllAfrica)

There was anxiety yesterday over the state of health of the Executive Chairman of Globacom Limited, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jnr., who was said to have slumped in his office at Victoria Island, Lagos. (AllAfrica)

Ten Nigerian pilgrims were quarantined at the infectious diseases hospital ,Jedda for suspected swine flu (H1N1). (AllAfrica)

As part of government's overhauling of the South African health system, the Department of Health is to send a team to all the hospitals around the country to assess the needs and challenges of facilities. (AllAfrica)

The second edition of Sadc Artists Aids Festival is scheduled for Lilongwe in Malawi starting on November 30 until December 6, 2009. (AllAfrica)

THE Young Communist League (YCL) yesterday repeated its call that former president Thabo Mbeki be prosecuted for AIDS-related deaths, saying it sided with victims rather than critics of the proposed court action, including the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League. (AllAfrica)

When Dorothy*, a single mother of five, told her neighbours in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, she had tuberculosis (TB), she expected sympathy and maybe even offers of help. Instead, she found herself so severely ostracized, she felt she had to move out. (AllAfrica)

Poor health facilities and poverty have been blamed for the high rate of maternal mortality in Africa. (AllAfrica)

The United State's President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has increased funding for HIV/AIDS in Africa from $2.3 billion in 2004 to $6.6 billion in 2009. (AllAfrica)

Thanks to the international recession, donors are either decreasing or opting not to increase their funding of AIDS treatment. This will have devastating effects on poorer countries that are largely dependent on foreign aid. (AllAfrica)

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