The Bihar Health Department has issued the notification of Bihar Epidemic Diseases Covid-19 Rules 2023 regarding effective control over Bihar Epidemic Covid-19. In the new rules, the responsibility of all the hospitals from the state level to the district level has been fixed for its control. In the manual prepared …
Udeajah — The Federal Government may next year hand over the management of HIV/AIDS to states.The coordinator of the Abia State AIDS Control/Programme, Dr. Rock Hemuka disclosed this yesterday.He spoke at an advocacy meeting on maternal, new born and child health forum in Umuahia, the state capital. According to him, …
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the World Bank Group on Thursday launched the joint Global Preparedness Monitoring Board to observe how ready the world is to tackle outbreaks and pandemics, the WHO said in a statement. “The board will be co-chaired by Dr Gro Brundtland, former Prime Minister of …
Two dying Ebola patients were spirited out of a Congo hospital by their relatives on motor-bikes, then taken to a prayer meeting with 50 other people, potentially exposing them all to the deadly virus, a senior aid worker said on Thursday. Traders walk at an open air market near the …
Health workers in the Democratic Republic of Congo are to begin an immunisation campaign in an attempt to halt the spread of the deadly Ebola virus. The experimental vaccine proved effective when used in limited trials during the outbreak in West Africa in 2014-16. At least 25 people are believed …
Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry says there is one new death from Ebola, bringing to 26 the number of deaths from the deadly outbreak in Equateur province in the country's northwest. Four new cases have been confirmed as Ebola, said the health ministry in a statement released early on …
The global health outfit, World Health Organisation (WHO) says it has obtained 4,000 doses of Ebola vaccine and is preparing for deployment in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). WHO’s Africa director, Matshidiso Moeti, told Reuters on Sunday: “We’re working on the deployment of these materials, especially readying the cold …
Tedros Adhanom, the World Health Organization Director General, was in Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday to personally evaluate the response to the country’s new Ebola outbreak. Tedros met with President Joseph Kabila, Minister of Health Oly Ilunga and other officials before heading out into the field to meet with …
The Greater Accra and Ashanti Regions are currently having the highest HIV rates in the country, according to a recent report. This means that the two regions have taken over from the Brong Ahafo and Volta Regions which topped in 2016. The revelation was contained in the 2017 HIV Sentinel …
GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization is preparing for the worst case scenario in an Ebola outbreak in a remote area of Congo, including spread to a major town, WHO Deputy Director-General of Emergency Preparedness and Response Peter Salama said on Friday. A medical staff holds a package of …
A hospital director says there are five new suspected cases of Ebola in Democratic Republic of Congo's northwestern town of Bikoro, where an outbreak of the often deadly hemorrhagic fever was declared this week. Dr Serge Ngalebato, Bikoro Hospital director, tells The Associated Press that two nurses who were in …
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Cases of hemorrhagic fever were reported in an area of Congo facing an Ebola epidemic as long ago as December and the first deaths were reported in January, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday, as four new suspected cases surfaced. A health worker sprays a colleague …
About 170,000 Nigerians will soon be participating in the largest ever HIV/AIDS survey in the world, the Federal Government said. The survey tagged 'Nigeria AIDS Indicator and Impact Survey (NAIIS)' will be carried out under the leadership of the Ministry of Health and the National Agency for the Control of …
The US government has announced a $408m budget support to Uganda’s HIV prevention and treatment effort. The funding will be disbursed under the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). According to the embassy, the funding was announced on April 20, in Washington by the Global AIDs Co-ordinator, Ambassador …
Self-testing kits and vending machines distributing prescription drugs are two ways that HIV treatment is being automated to reduce stigma in SA, home of the world’s biggest HIV epidemic. With 7.1-million people living with HIV in the country, removing human intervention is helping experts target hard-to-reach groups, such as young …
Piot, whose visit to the country has been necessitated by the Biomedical Research and Training Institute, said there was an impending bulge of an adolescence population and there was need to expedite research to effectively counter potential infections culminating from this group and not ride on ambitious fallacy that HIV …
Before 20-year-old Lebogang Motsumi even had sex with her first “blesser” - or sugar daddy - a successful, married, company boss more than twice her age, he handed her a wad of cash. He was soon making regular deposits into her bank account, paying her rent and taking her out …
The first case was registered on March 5 and since then, there has been no respite. GUNTUR: Three more persons succumbed to diarrhoea in Guntur increasing the death toll to 15 on Thursday. Ninety others are still undergoing treatment at GGH, despite 12 days of outbreak of diarrhoea. According to …
Abuja — A Nigerian scientist, Dr. Michael Odighemeh, has announced the discovery of a fuzzy-neutral expert system for detecting Ebola and Lassa fever. Odighemeh is a lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering in the Federal University Ndufu-Alike Ikwo (FUNAI), Ebonyi State. He made the presentation in Abuja yesterday at an …
In the recent 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, non-hospitalized cases were an important component of the chain of transmission. However, non-hospitalized cases are at increased risk of going unreported because of barriers to access to healthcare. Furthermore, underreporting rates may fluctuate over space and time, biasing estimates of disease …
South African child treated for HIV at birth, now 'cured' nine years after - Scientists Why HIV/AIDS is highest in Benue -- Gov Suswam Jonathan, governors seek end to increase in HIV infections in Nigeria UN says more than 7mn people in Africa receive HIV treatment Know the facts to …
