Members of the parliamentary health committee were over the weekend on tour of the Vumbura camp in the Okavango Delta managed by Okavango Wilderness Safaris.
BCL mine yesterday launched the HIV prevalence survey to enable the mine to assess if the current prevention efforts are effective. BCL mine has been in the past applauded for its excellent HIV/AIDS interventions.
Alhaji Lawal Dutsinma, President of the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), said yesterday that inadequate midwives was responsible for the rise in maternal mortality in Nigeria.
Executive chairman of Bwari area council in the Federal Capital Territory, Hon Isa Dora Bwari, has commended the efforts of Nigerian Navy for providing free medical services for the residents.
The Lagos State Government has inaugurated a committee to brainstorm on strategies to reduce the high rate of maternal mortality in the country as a whole and the state in particular.
Health authorities have started countrywide investigations of all pharmacies over reported fake malaria drugs on the market. The aim is to establish authenticity of media reports in Uganda that a recent study by U.S. scientists indicated that fake malaria medication
Lagos State government in an effort to reduce the alarming high maternal mortality rate in the state has inaugurated a high powered and resourceful commitee.
A major campaign intended to curb the old-age practice of female genital mutilation has intensified in the country with the Women and Children Desk of the Inter-religious Council of Liberia (IRCL) taking the lead in the campaign.
MAMA'S Club, a Ugandan community-based organisation helping people living with HIV/AIDS, has emerged one of the best 25 groups of the Red Ribbon for 2008.
Maria was ignorant of the effect her blood group could have on her pregnancy until she went for that labaratory test that revealed she was rhesus negative, a condition that has had her lose two babies.
