Health and Medicine

[African Arguments]The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have driven the global development agenda since September 2000, when Kofi Annan, then Secretary-General of the United Nations, and 191 member states surprised the world by unanimously agreeing and making, the Millennium Declaration. The Millennium Declaration was both a surprising and encouraging outcome for global progress. Not long before the Millennium Declaration was signed, just the previous year, world leaders failed to launch "the Millennium Round" of tr (AllAfrica)

[IPS]Nairobi -Victoria J. married in 2009 at age 14, and became pregnant shortly after. "I started labour in the morning on a Friday ... The nurse kept checking and saying I would deliver safely. On Monday she said I was weak. (AllAfrica)

[Health-e]Winter is the time initiation schools run and in the Eastern Cape it is a time of worry for many because of the health risks involved. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]The government has been asked to establish a rehab center for rescuing teenage mothers back to school. (AllAfrica)

[Ghanaian Chronicle]Poor personal hygiene and unsanitary environmental management in the Bolgatanga Municipality and the rest of the Upper East Region have given health experts cause to warn residents to be wary of a possible cholera outbreak. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Observer]Janjangbureh -Health authorities and other stakeholders have disclosed plans to vaccinate about 48, 000 children in the Central River Region (CRR) in the upcoming nationwide polio immunisation campaign, slated from 24th-27th May, 2013. (AllAfrica)

[Namibian]A BLOOD shortage in the country has forced the Blood Transfusion Service (BTS) of Namibia to open emergency clinics for donations at shopping malls in Windhoek on Saturday. (AllAfrica)

[Daily News]STAKEHOLDERS working in the area of HIV and AIDS prevention in Arusha Region are meeting on Tuesday to discuss the extent to which HIV and AIDS prevention programme and related policies are actually reaching out to young girls aged 15 - 24, including those in colleges and universities. (AllAfrica)

[Radio Dabanga]Nertiti -Staff and doctors of Nertiti hospital in Central Darfur went on strike on Sunday in protest against an attack on hospital staff by armed men on Saturday evening. (AllAfrica)

[Daily News]THE Ministry of Health and Social Welfare recently unveiled highly frightening statistics on the state of nutrition in the country and left unchecked, the figures do not augur well with the nation's human development agenda. (AllAfrica)

[Zimbabwe Standard]PROMOTERS of the male circumcision programme need to go back to the drawing board after only 8% of the targeted people responded positively to their campaign. (AllAfrica)

[Shabait]Assab -A new clinic has opened in Debaisima Administrative area, Southern Denkalia sub-zone, and the inhabitants expressed satisfaction with the service being rendered by it, the impact of which has become remarkable in simplifying the load as regards outreach medical service. (AllAfrica)

[Global Fund]The Global Fund published a report today on preventing and detecting possible misuse of funds in countries where Global Fund grants support programs that fights AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. (AllAfrica)

[U.S. House]Washington, DC -The fight against one of the deadliest diseases in the world was the topic of a hearing held Wednesday by Congressman Chris Smith (NJ-04), Chairman of the House congressional panel that oversees global health. (AllAfrica)

[Global Fund]New York -The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria agreed to participate in a new partnership to leverage private sector funding to speed delivery and expand access to health supplies such as contraceptives, bed nets, and medicines. (AllAfrica)

[The Star]Kirinyaga Governor Joseph Ndathi has accused the management of Kerugoya District hospital of incompetent and mismanagement of the institution. (AllAfrica)

[New Vision]Okwalinga, 50, a resident of Mbale district, is weighed down because his penis was recently cut off in a surgical operation at Mbale Hospital, on the recommendation of a physician. (AllAfrica)

[DA]Mpumalanga MEC for Health, Cadith Mashego-Dlamini's remark that tradition prevents a woman from getting involved in topics pertaining to initiation schools is unacceptable and has the potential to endanger the lives of more initiates in Mpumalanga. It is her duty as the MEC for Heath to oversee all health-related matters in the province and to confront these crises head-on. (AllAfrica)

[Vanguard]A baby delivery syndicate was recently unearthed by the Police and a key suspect arrested and paraded in Lagos, alongside two other women who were believed to have paid certain sums of money respectively, to be delivered of babies. (AllAfrica)

[NEWS]"We were rejected, neglected, abandoned and stigmatized by family members, friends and love ones as a result of the pupu and pepe sickness we were suffering from; but today, our stories have changed; those who rejected us are now embracing us," these were the words of some fistula survivors who have now been reintegrated into communities. (AllAfrica)

[NEWS]Grand Bassa County Senator Nyonblee K. Lawrence has expressed fear over worsening health conditions in the county. She said the health conditions in Grand Bassa County have depreciated over the years due to the shortage of drugs at the Liberia Government Hospital in Buchanan. (AllAfrica)

[Vanguard]The Principal of Baptist High School, Ekinrin/Adde, in Ijumu Local Government Area of Kogi State Mr. Ajayi Ajibulu has been accused of impregnating one of his students and trying to abort the pregnancy. (AllAfrica)

[Zimbabwe Standard]Zimbabwe could save up to US$3 billion in treatment of HIV and Aids and downstream costs if the country can scale up its Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC), a health official has said. (AllAfrica)

[New Vision]Opticians around town are in the business of selling eyeglasses and as the Sunday Vision reporter reveals, most will do whatever it takes, even if it means convincing you that you have eye defects in order to sell their eyeglasses (AllAfrica)

[New Vision]Susan Nandi is full of hopes for her 3 year old girl's future. Little Immaculate Nambowa was one of ten children who received free heart surgery at Heart Institute Mulago last week in a mission that closed yesterday. (AllAfrica)

[New Vision]The Basoga Twegaite association in the diaspora is to fund-raise for a cancer treatment unit in Jinja. (AllAfrica)

[New Vision]In the late 1980s, the HIV prevalence rate was 18%. It reduced to 6.2%, but has risen again to 7.3%, which is worrying policy makers and healthcare givers. (AllAfrica)

[SA Govt]The Gauteng Department of Health's efforts to improve the quality of health for all South Africans yielded positive results in the fourth quarter of the last financial year, January to March 2013. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Trust]Nollywood super actress, Omotola Jalade Ekeinde and Hollywood star, Halle Berry went all out to fight for a cause. The duo, along with others, did a walk to support women with breast cancer. (AllAfrica)

[New Vision]Mulago National hospital has installed two electronic display boards at the Labour suits to stop claims of missing newborn babies. (AllAfrica)

[New Vision]Uganda records an estimated 100,000 malaria related deaths per year with children being the majority, the minister of health, Dr. Christine Ondoa, has said. (AllAfrica)