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South African HIV and gender rights activist. Born in Wattville, South Africa, on July 21, 1971, she died from pneumonia in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 10, 2017, aged 45 years. Read more.
South African HIV and gender rights activist. Born in Wattville, South Africa, on July 21, 1971, she died from pneumonia in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 10, 2017, aged 45 years. Read more.
The Ukrainian government is looking to shoulder more of the burden of the response to its HIV epidemic in the midst of a complicated health care overhaul. Read more.
Outbreaks of infectious diarrheal diseases in Yemen, Somalia, and Ethiopia are devastating communities already suffering from conflict, drought, and potential famine, global health officials have warned. Read more.
On May 12, officials declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in a remote area of the northern DR Congo. The WHO reported 37 cases of infection, including one confirmed and three probable deaths from EVD. The outbreak triggered a response involving more than 13 international agencies and could prompt the roll-out of an Ebola vaccine candidate, pending government approval of its use. Read more.
Leading Ugandan psychiatrist and advocate for health professionals. Born in Jinja, Uganda, on Oct 25, 1957, she died from colon cancer in Chennai, India, on Feb 4, 2017, aged 59 years. Read more.
An interview with Patrick Phiri, the health coordinator for the Malawi Red Cross, who is based in the country's capital, Lilongwe. Read more.
Gambia's new president has stated that maternal and child health will be his first priority and experts are hoping for a new focus on health in the country. Read more.
It has been more than 6 months since the last diagnosis of Ebola in Guinea, Sierra Leone or Liberia. The three west African countries suffered nearly all of the more than 28,600 diagnosed cases and 11,300 deaths during the outbreak that began in December 2013 in a Guinean village.
Although the outbreak has ended, the scale of the epidemic collapsed these countries' health systems, while unleashing new medical crises. The capacity to treat even basic illnesses is now limited, while health needs of Ebola survivors stretch the services that do remain. With Ebola having killed health workers at a disproportionate rate, the years-long efforts to rebuild the health systems are only just beginning. Officials in all three settings acknowledge that the task ahead is immense.
For millions of patients, HIV has been transformed into a highly treatable, chronic condition thanks to the development and distribution of increasingly sophisticated combination therapies. These advances have come with another unanticipated outcome, though. Researchers and health workers now worry they may lose patients they have saved from AIDS-related illnesses to non-communicable diseases, including cardiovascular disease, cervical cancer, depression, and diabetes. Read more.
An interview with Claire Reading, a British midwife who is on her second mission with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), serving as a midwife supervisor at a primary care health clinic in the remote South Sudanese town, Bentiu. Read more.
Ugandan expert in family medicine who helped coordinate Liberia's Ebola response. She was born in Kumi, Uganda, on Nov 22, 1956, and died from pancreatic cancer in Kampala, Uganda, on May 5, 2016, aged 59 years. Read more.
A team from the World Health Organization has arrived in South Sudan to investigate a hemorrhagic fever outbreak in the north of the country, the cause of which remains unknown. Read more.
Although an emergency meeting of health experts last month stopped short of calling the yellow fever outbreak in Angola a global public health emergency, humanitarian groups on the ground warn the epidemic is still far from over. Even as the number of newly reported cases declines, the disease continues to spread. If it reaches areas with low vaccination coverage, the outbreak could flare up again. Read more.
The government of Gabon has launched a new program to improve healthcare services in the country, starting with those for maternal and child health. Read more.
In mid-April, public health, veterinary and food security experts gathered for the first time to draft a list of priority interventions to better understand and control zoonotic tuberculosis. The 10-point program begins with improved surveillance and new diagnostic tools, but also calls for efforts to increase global awareness. Read more.