A Disability-Inclusive Response To COVID-19
A Disability-Inclusive Response to COVID-19 Realizing the rights of persons with disabilities is central to the promise of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – to leave no one behind. Achieving transformative and lasting change on disability inclusion through the United Nations Disability Inclusion Strategy is a priority for the United Nations, including in times of crisis. The COVID-19 […]
Last Aid Agency Evacuates Town Due To Attack In C.A.R
Four patients have died and thousands are stranded without health care in an embattled Central African Republic town, after an attack forced the last charity working there to pull out. The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has evacuated its staff and suspended its programmes after its base in Bangassou was violently robbed on Monday […]
Kenya: Three Die of Cholera, Five Others Admitted In Hospitals
Nairobi was on Thursday evening on high alert after three people who all met and ate at a wedding in Karen on Saturday died of cholera. Five others including a foreigner are admitted to various hospitals in the city. The victims and patients were part of a larger group of about 400 guests who had […]
NOA Urges Nursing Mothers On Essential Family Practices
The Abia State Director of the National Orientation Agency (NOA), Dr. Ngozi Uduma has called on communities, especially nursing mothers to imbibe Essential Family Practices (EFP) so they would not contact disease through unhealthy living. Dr Uduma listed some of the essential family practices to include exclusive breastfeeding, immunization of children, hand washing, oral re-hydration […]
Sanitary Pad Crowdfunding Unsettles Uganda’s Elite
Ugandan girls are missing school because they can’t afford hygiene products. Activists are helping out, but a crowdfunding campaign to buy millions of sanitary pads has fallen foul of the country’s authoritarian regime. Dozens of children, clad in their white and blue uniforms, are sitting at their desks in their classrooms. The bell ring rings. […]
Kenya: Counties To Build Breast Feeding Zones, Baby Care Centres
All counties will be forced to build breast feeding and baby care centres in major towns to help working women attend to their children. The Senate Labour Committee chaired by Stewart Madzayo has supported a petition by two Kenyans seeking to ensure that — just like smoking zones — specific areas should be designated for […]
Woman Delivers 5 Babies After Fleeing Kenya Doctors’ Strike
An expectant Kenyan mother who fled the doctors’ strike in her country and crossed into Tanzania to seek medical attention has delivered five babies in Kilimanjaro Region. Ms Bahati Tabu, a 37-year-old single mother from Taveta, gave birth to the quintuplets at Faraja Health Centre in Himo District on Sunday. However, four infants, all male, […]
Striking Medics Dismissed From Northern Sudan Hospital
An academic hospital in northern Sudan has dismissed eighteen lab technicians who participated in a strike staged against the deteriorating working environment. Ten others were stopped from entering the hospital. Doctors of the Meck Nimir hospital in Shendi, River Nile, have denounced the dismissal of their colleagues. The stated that their demands are legit and […]
Uganda: Provide Better Healthcare for Women
As we commemorate the 16days of activism against Gender based violence (GBV) priority should be on the right to health especially for the women. Women have the right to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health. This right is vital to their life and well-being, their ability to participate in […]
Tanzania: Muhimbili National Hospital Plans Free Hepatitis Treatment
Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) plans to establish a diagnosis of hepatitis B virus and offer free treatment with Tenofovir medication to patients for five years effective next month. MNH’s John Lwegasha, speaking in Dar es Salaam yesterday, said Tanzania becomes the second country after Rwanda within the East Africa to control and treat the disease. […]
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