There is no sign of reprieve yet for the embattled Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello as feelers emerged in Abuja yesterday that some senators are planning to move a motion for her resignation as committee
THE Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council has started training community based distributors on family planning methods and related issues, an official said yesterday.
A GROUP of American surgeons from Operation of Hope will be returning to Zimbabwe on their third mission to perform free corrective surgeries on children with cleft lip and cleft palates this month at Harare Children's Hospital.
One year after witnessing the horrific Savelugu Guinea worm outbreak in northern Ghana, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter returned to Accra today to congratulate the national program for its recent effective efforts in reducing the incidence of Guinea worm disease.
The National Agency For The Control of AIDS (NACA) has revealed that an estimated sixty one percent of Nigerians that are newly infected with HIV/AIDS are women and young girls.
The Gamtel/Gamcel Staff Asociation yesterday presented three cheques amounting to D650,000 to President Alhaji Dr. Yahya Jammeh for the First Lady's Opertion Save a Baby initiative, the President's Women Empowerment Programme, the President's HIV/AIDs Treatment Programme and the Royal Victoria
A billboard put up in Dar es Salaam recently has stirred up a lot of controversy. It's the work of an NGO, Human Life International, and depicts a skeleton, seeming to imply that condoms are not effective protection against contracting
Reports that Parliament in Malawi has come up with a draft policy, which, if passed into law, will make it an offence for anybody, including traditional healers and churches, to claim that they can cure AIDS, is a step in
A dark cloud has enveloped Zambia following the decision by the Ministry of Health to withdraw Depo Provera, an injectable family planning drug used by women to prevent pregnancies.
Uganda has proved its ability to fight the deadly HIV virus even with its limited resources. On March 19, Pastor Male joined the team of Kfm's Hot Seat talk show for a debate about the miracle healings of HIV/ Aids.
A two-day national conference of organisations involved in HIV/Aids education and prevention that has just ended, has recommended the enhancement of Aids network organisations' productivity in order to tackle the pandemic.
THE Vice President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, has said that condom vending machines should be installed in public toilets so that sexually active, but shy young people can access them easily.
