DAKAR, 27 January 2010 (IRIN) – Health experts hope the release of data showing the success of rotavirus vaccine will help compel policymakers to ensure all children will be immunized.
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 IRIN  26/01/2010CAIRO, 26 January 2010 (IRIN) – The Egyptian government’s decision to cull all of the country’s 300,000 pigs in May 2009 is increasingly being viewed by experts and officials as a gross mistake as piles of organic waste the pigs once ate accumulate in Cairo’s streets, posing serious health hazards. IRIN 15/01/2010Unconventional health workers and new technologies will be a vital part of the ongoing effort to “virtually eliminate” mother-to-child transmission of HIV, says Michél Sidibé, executive director of UNAIDS.
IRIN 15/01/2010Stefania*, 17, who has been wheelchair-bound since being involved in a traffic accident as a child, likes to go to Celso’s, a popular bar in Matundo, a suburb of Tete city in northwestern Mozambique. IRIN 15/01/2010Kenya has launched an ambitious strategy to fight HIV/AIDS that aims to reduce new infections by at least 50 percent over the next four years and focus more on most at-risk populations (MARPs). IRIN 15/01/2010A study finding that foreigners are about half as likely to fail antiretroviral (ARV) treatment as South African citizens attending the same Johannesburg clinic has challenged widely held assumptions about migrants’ ability to adhere to HIV/AIDS drug regimens.
IRIN 08/10/2009NAIROBI, 8 October 2009 (PlusNews) – A row between NGOs involved in the fight against HIV in Kenya could result in the country losing out on money from the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. IRIN 25/09/2009KANO, 25 September 2009 (IRIN) – A health worker strike, in place since 25 June, in northern Nigeria’s Adamawa state has paralysed public hospitals, forcing patients to forgo medical treatment. IRIN 24/09/2009NAIROBI, 24 September 2009 (IRIN) – Donor-backed user fees for health services were supposed to decentralise primary healthcare and provide revenue for essential drugs: instead, advocacy groups charge, they have ended up killing the poor in the developing world. IRIN 30/03/2009NAIROBI, 25 March 2009 (IRIN) – A five-day anti-polio campaign, targeting more than two million children in 42 districts, has been largely successful, officials said on 25 March, the last day of the house-to-house immunization project. [Full report] |
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