Angie, 23, has been living with a fistula - a tear in the tissue of her vagina that causes her to lose control of her bladder - for almost one year, after suffering a prolonged labour. She recounted for IRIN

Of 600 rape victims recently interviewed by a Liberian non-governmental organisation, 90 percent of the women were found to be suffering from fistulas - a vaginal tear which results in loss of bladder control and social stigmatisation.

Mozambique's infant, under-five and maternal mortality rates have all declined in recent years, but still remain alarmingly high.

Angola's Health deputy minister Jose Van-Dunem on Wednesday left Luanda for the south-eastern Kuando-Kubango Province to assess the state of the local health infrastructures, ANGOP has learnt.

Faster, more efficient and universal access to health care will be debated at the annual Commonwealth Health Ministers Meeting in Geneva on Sunday, 18 May 2008, under the theme of 'E-Health: Challenges and Opportunities'.

Given the dubious attitude of manufacturers in China, India and Egypt, the National Agency for Food, Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC), has said that pharmaceutical products from those countries have to under go thorough screening to ascertain their suitability for

Handicap International (HI) has said that the blind have been neglected in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Eighteen retirees of the Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) have taken their former employer to court demanding the payment of Sh31.4 million, which they allege was unlawfully deducted from their terminal benefits.

The Ministry of Health has said that the government is very much preoccupied with seeking a lasting solution to the effects of climate change on public health.

President Jakaya Kikwete yesterday unveiled a facility for cancer treatment that will enable up to one million patients in the country to access vital medication.

PRIVATE hospital group Medi-Clinic aims to derive more than half its revenue for the next financial year offshore as private healthcare regulations cast uncertainty over the sector.

APPROVE a policy that makes it mandatory for babies to be tested for the sickle cell disease upon birth, activists urged MPs yesterday.

PEOPLE living with HIV/AIDS in Luweero district have reason for hope. The International HIV/AIDS Alliance has given the district sh83m to help residents living with the virus start income generating projects, access anti-retroviral drugs and improve health care.

MINISTER of State for Commerce and Industry, Ahmed Garba Bichi, and the Director-General, National Agency for Food and Drugs Control (NAFDAC) Prof Dora Akunyili, have commended Sosaco Nigeria Limited, for diversifying from buying and selling into manufacturing.

A group of United States senators is blocking a bill that would help HIV/Aids patients in Africa and around the world, and could postpone the bill's passage until next year.

Policy analysts at two leading American Universities are urging that male circumcision and partner reduction should become the focus of prevention efforts in countries such as Uganda with generalised HIV epidemics.

Uganda has yet again received a huge financial boost towards her fight against HIV/Aids that has so far ravaged the country for the last two and a half decades or so.

Home to about 1.1 million people, Karamoja in northeastern Uganda is a harsh, semi-arid region largely inhabited by agro-pastoralists, with the highest maternal and infant mortality rates in the country, and the lowest life expectancy.