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PATRIOTIC Front (PF) leader, Michael Sata, has described his admission to a South African hospital as an eye opener and has since called for dialogue with President Mwanawasa. (AllAfrica)

Nurses from around the country are expected to converge in Ganta, Nimba County, today to celebrate the International Nurses Day. (AllAfrica)

HUNGER and poverty are, in general, consequences of inadequate and restricted access to land and other resources. (AllAfrica)

It has been reported that Apotex Inc., Canada's largest pharmaceutical company will soon ship to Rwanda a new HIV/Aids drug. Apo-TriAvir combines Zidovudine, Lamivudine and Nevirapine, three drugs otherwise administered separately to patients. (AllAfrica)

Access to medical insurance is likely to increase following the introduction of new products in the industry. (AllAfrica)

The group of parliamentarian women of the National Assembly wants to direct its action to maternal protection, mainly in reduction of child and mother death rate, part of the programme on fight against HIV/AIDS and cancer prevention. (AllAfrica)

Twenty workers, most of whom female staff from the Ministry of Family and Women Promotion (Minfamu), were upgraded last April 21-25, in Luanda, as peer educators at their workplace, to carry out preventive campaigns on HIV/Aids and other diseases. (AllAfrica)

Health authorities of Luanda Province have recorded five deaths out of the 875 cases of cholera since January 11 to May this year, ANGOP has learnt. (AllAfrica)

Politics and Policy (AllAfrica)

HIV/AIDS counsellor Kenema district Saturday disclosed that an exercise conducted throughout the country indicated that about two thousand, one hundred and eighty one pregnant women have so far been tested positive. (AllAfrica)

Namibia's own one-stop shop service and database providing information on medicines was launched in Windhoek yesterday. (AllAfrica)

Lack of pit latrines and general toilet facilities in the northern regions of the country is likely to compromise health officials' efforts in curbing cholera, a disease that has since early this year claimed more than 37 lives. (AllAfrica)

The Voice newspaper has done it again. As part of the campaign to stop the spread of HIV and AIDS, The Voice has launched exclusive t-shirts that will have a message on the front and back, along with the red ribbon that is recognized worldwide as the HIV symbol. (AllAfrica)

A human resource officer at the Ghana Aids Commission (GAC), Mr. Richard Dodoo has said the current atmosphere of silence and secrecy about HIV status is the result of the way Persons Living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs) are treated. (AllAfrica)

MAYORS in the Erongo Region have been rebuked by Governor Samuel Nuuyoma for neglecting their roles as chairpersons of District AIDS Committees (DACs). (AllAfrica)

Luanda Province Governor, Francisca do Espirito Santo, on Monday here said nurses have a decisive role in the functioning of any health unit, as they are the first ones to be in contact with patients at a hospital, ANGOP has learnt. (AllAfrica)

About 20 Cuban physicians, out of the 33 initially planned, will arrive next June in the south west Namibe province, to reinforce the medical assistance to the population, announced the local health director, Pedro Viayayauca. (AllAfrica)

UíAbout 29 cases of cholera, from which two resulted in deaths, were registered last week, in northern Uíge province by the local health authorities, ANGOP learnt on Monday in this city from the provincial health director, Quiala Godi. (AllAfrica)

A South Africa expedition yesterday donated 700 mosquito nets to women and children at Tumbi Special Hospital in Cost Region. (AllAfrica)

The coordinator of Ijaw Monitoring Group, Comrade Joseph Evah will return home from hospital this week, according to doctors at the Reddegton Hospital, Victoria Island, Lagos. (AllAfrica)

People Democratic Party Chieftain in Ibadan, Chief Lamidi Adedibu, yesterday declared that he has deferred his overseas medical trip till after the Appeal Court judgment on the election of his political protégé, Oyo State Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala. (AllAfrica)

Human rights lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN) who returned to the country at the weekend after several months of medical treatment in the United Kingdom, yesterday formally admitted that he had cancer. (AllAfrica)

Lagos state government yesterday rose to the medical needs of the ailing veteran broadcaster, Mr. Yinka Craig with the release of N15 million lifeline as part of the cost of his treatment of cancer of the bloodstream in the United States of America. (AllAfrica)

About 40 Kisumu municipal council workers die of Aids every year, according to a new study. (AllAfrica)

THE Edo State Government says it has expended over N81million in revamping the three health training institutions in the state in the last eight months. (AllAfrica)

SENIOR medics of the Hospice Africa Uganda have asked the Government to integrate palliative care studies in the medical students' syllabus. (AllAfrica)

THE Federal and State governments have been called upon to be more focused in the area of providing an enabling environment including physical structures and equipment while being more committed in directing more investment into people-oriented initiatives that would enable the national healthcare delivery system become more efficient. (AllAfrica)

HEALTH state minister Emmanuel Otaala has denied reports that he slapped Margaret Tageyerawo, a nursing officer at Mulago Hospital. (AllAfrica)

The elite in Uganda have remained stigmatised despite the government's efforts to fight HIV, the Uganda Aids Commission has said. " People in high social status have remained with the fear to come and access services," said UAC Information Resource Manager, Rosemary Kiryomunda. (AllAfrica)

Labour State Minister Mwesigwa Rukutana has challenged Trade Union leaders to step up the fight against HIV at the work place. (AllAfrica)

As both Kano State and the Federal Government resume their legal battle against Pfizer Pharmaceutical Limited over a Trovan clinical study, which allegedly killed 200 children in Kano, there were strong indications during the weekend that the parties to the case might settle out of court. (AllAfrica)

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