THE Zimbabwe Business Council plans to create provincial steering committees with members from the business community to strengthen the response of the private sector to HIV/AIDS, ZBC Executive Director David Mutambara said earlier this week.

Female landmine survivors in the north have complained that their husbands have abandoned them.

KAMPALA Pharmaceutical Industries (KPI) has embarked on a countrywide promotion of formin, a diabetes drug, it started manufacturing in March.

Karamoja is experiencing a humanitarian emergency but not famine as claimed by local leaders, the World Food Programme (WFP) has said.

GOAT meat exports mainly to the Middle East, are threatened by the increased prevalence of diseases, a study has revealed.

Western Cape teacher unions have no plans to hand out condoms to pupils. Instead, they say, they are encouraging teachers to advocate abstinence.

AIDS Service Organisations and other stakeholders in the health sector have called on Government to review its policies on HIV and Aids interventions to integrate Tuberculosis programmes.

The health department's plans to replace the inefficient Medicines Control Council with a new regulatory authority could backfire if the proposals contained in the Medicines and Related Substances Amendment Bill were implemented, pharmaceutical manufacturers have warned.

UZUMBA Maramba Pfungwe District continues to record high incidents of sexual transmitted infections despite the distribution of condoms, the district HIV and Aids co-ordinator has said.

Nigeria Army yesterday in Kaduna disbursed N50,000 each as micro-credit facility to about 100 of its personnel who have tested positive to HIV/AIDS so that they can commence some income generating activities.

Having identified lack of drugs as one of the major problems confronting health care delivery in Nigeria, an international non-governmental organisation, 'Health Community Projects' in collaboration with the health and human services secretariat, has donated drugs worth N300 million to

A play performance is much more effective and powerful in bringing across the message than the many AIDS talks, workshops and seminars that are annually held in the country.

Health officials in Opuwo yesterday claimed that cholera has been contained due, to a large extent, to multi-pronged medical intervention.

President Umaru Yar'Adua, yesterday in Benin disclosed that efforts were being put in place by his administration to ensure that deaths through maternal mortality and HIV/AIDS were reduced to the barest minimum by 2015.

Religious leaders have backed a national campaign to improve the health of children under the age of five.

Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report Will Not Publish Monday, May 26

The Angolan Red Cross (CVA) holds since the beginning of the second fortnight of this month a series of campaigns, in the southern Cunene Province, for the prevention against HIV/Aids, informed this Friday to ANGOP, in Luanda, CVA's general director

North West Health MEC, Nomonde Rasmeni visited Emergency Medical Rescue Service (EMRS) centres and colleges to assess working equipment, state of ambulances and services in the area.

The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) has added a special Pediatric Trials Search facility to its well-established Clinical Trials Portal, to facilitate finding on-line information concerning on-going and completed trials of new medicines developed or adapted especially

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