GOVERNMENT has temporarily closed the Okanguati Combined School near Opuwo for an indefinite period after two teachers and a pupil contracted cholera.

A national conference on families, the first of its kind to be held in the country, started in the capital yesterday.

Laboratory result of the poisonous beans eaten by students of Government Girls Secondary School, Doma, Gombe State, is out.

Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is in spotlight at a stakeholder meeting being held at the AU headquarters is deliberating from Monday 12 April to 14 April 2008, the Pan-African body which organized said on Monday.

Ever wondered what quality means regarding the services provided by the public and some of the privately owned health facilities in this country?

CHITUNGWIZA Central Hospital, which was upgraded to a central hospital in 2006, has now assumed its referral status providing an affordable and quality health service to patients.

The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) expressed satisfaction at the considerable decrease of the mortality rate of children aged less than 5 in Tunisia where there were 23 deaths per 1000 births in 2006 against 51 in 1990.

Some 124 cases of sexual transmitted diseases (STDs) were diagnosed, from January to April this year, in the southern Huíla Province, by the local health authorities.

Health and sanitation minister Dr. Soccoh Alex Kabia left Freetown yesterday to attend this year's World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland.

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A new World Bank report launched today says African countries must continue to champion HIV prevention efforts to slow and reverse the rate of new HIV infections, and that HIV/AIDS will remain for the foreseeable future an unprecedented economic, social,

About 178 new nurses from the North West government nursing colleges will be doing their community service this year.

Modern family planning methods can save Ugandan mothers from the excesses of motherhood, if only their husbands could cooperate, writes Bamuturaki Musinguzi

Lira, Amolatar and Dokolo districts have protested the planned spray of DDT in their area, saying it would affect the production of organic cotton.

KIBUUKA Memorial Secondary School students in Mpigi district have been trained in first aid. Christine Atura, the tutor of Public Health Nurse's College, Kyambogo, said the training was vital for schools because students and pupils were most vulnerable.

GIVE all your time to patients to save lives, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Daudi Migereko, has told medical workers. "When patients come to hospital, they should be well attended to, the doctors, nurses and drugs must be

In a bid to promote hygiene in Kabale town, municipality authorities have started buying a kilogramme of used buveera (polythene bags) littered in town at Shs2,000.