Pregnant women and girls in Sierra Leone continue to face serious challenges in accessing the drugs and medical care crucial for safe pregnancy, according to a report by Amnesty International, issued on Tues 6th September. This report is part of Amnesty’s on-going campaign to ensure that women and girls living in Sierra Leone are able [...]
The concept of Attitude Change is so natural that in all honesty it cannot be successfully sold out as a national scheme. It is known that only God and fools do not change and therefore there is no need to labour this issue. The fact is that people who do not change their attitude are [...]
New Tuberculosis (TB) drug highlights potential challenges when given to Gambian infants as it was less effective in stimulating an immune response. The research which was published in Science Translational Medicine was conducted as part of trials to help improve protection against TB. The purpose of the study was to assess whether this new drug [...]
A program for the improvement of nursing skills in Sub- Saharan Africa has been established. It followed calls from East African governments to improve the region’s healthcare and human resource capacity. The new initiative, funded by the Rotarian Foundation and Aga Khan University, will operate in Sub-Saharan countries where statistics show that one in thirty [...]
The World Health Organisation (WHO) reported on the 25th February that across six malaria infected African countries as many as 30% of anti-malaria drugs tested were not up to the required international quality standard. The sample was taken from Cameroon, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. On top of this 11.6% from the sample were [...]
As politicians continue to go round canvassing for votes ahead of national elections coming up next month, one area that they seemed to be focusing on is the issue of provision of quality education. Indeed President Goodluck Jonathan appears to be in the forefront of this with his administration already establishing six additional Federal Universities [...]
In mid to low income households across the developing world treatments for the disease return are failing, a new report by the Wellcome Trust has revealed. The report, published on 15th March, was based on a study in Kampala, Uganda, of 140 HIV-infected patients and 148 HIV-uninfected patients. Currently between one in ten and one [...]
This is an inspiring figure, and cause for much hope for a country devastated by the epidemic. The South African government, the UN and the African Union have been working together on a National Strategic Plan on HIV & AIDS, a strategy taking part over 4 years from 2007 to 2011. The aims of this [...]
This is the message behind the global TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference. Started in California in the 1980s, and growing in size to reach critical mass in the 2000s, the conference is today a meeting point for scientists, policy makers, thinkers and globally influential people to share their ideas and broadcast them to the [...]
The battle against the stigma attached to HIV in South African is being won, a new opinion study carried out by African pro-democracy think tank IDASA has revealed. The study, called ‘AIDS, Leadership and service delivery in South Africa: What the people think’ was carried out to mark AIDS day. It asked South Africans whether [...]
