Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has moved to allay fears that a drug many HIV patients use may also raise the risk of heart attacks over time, as suggested by a group of European researchers.
Answers, Solutions and Knowledge - ASK - on HIV/Aids. That is what 18 students acquired during a one-month training. They recently received their certificates. The training was organized by the international student's platform Aiesec in partnership with World Vision.
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, struggling under the burden of bacterial diseases such as tuberculosis, are more in need of antibiotics than ever. But issues such as proliferation of counterfeit drugs, poor prescribing practices and a lack of regulations and guidelines are fuelling
Dr Tamsir Mbowe, the director of health services and director general of the presidential treatment program, has said that the vision 2010 initiative of First Ladies is on the right course.
It is now illegal to encourage the use of condoms in southeast Nigeria's Anambra State. The state government has also banned the advocacy and distribution of other forms of contraceptives including IUDs (intrauterine device) and any other "un-natural" birth control.
Angola's Health deputy minister, José Van-Dunem, said over the weekend that the government has been inserting many efforts in combat against malaria in the country.
Her husband died of Ebola last year but the tragedy remains fresh in her mind. The memories become fresher whenever Ms Musoki Mellen the widow of the late Dr Jonah Kule stares at her nine months pregnancy.
Conventional wisdom is that Uganda, like many other African countries, is still grappling with triple challenges of poverty, disease and illiteracy, almost 50 years after independence, because it doesn't have adequate resources. It then follows that an infusion of resources,
Forty-Seven children will undergo cleft palate or lip operations conducted by a group of American surgeons at Harare Children's Hospital in the next two weeks.
AN outbreak of Nagana is threatening food security in Tororo, the district veterinary officer, Mukongo Tegule, has said. He said the disease, which is spread by tsetse flies and affects cattle, had wiped out livestock in key areas that supply
A Bulawayo woman who had unprotected sex with her lover knowing she was HIV positive has been spared jail after a magistrate slapped her with a wholly suspended five-year prison term, largely because he did not get infected.
A three-week swim-against-malaria gala started on Friday at Kabira Country Club. The event was organised by the Malaria Consortium, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to combating malaria, and Equator Swimming Club of Kampala, to raise funds to buy mosquito nets for
