May 18, 2013
News in 'Health' section
A doctor on perils of rising unsafe abortion in Sierra Leone
May 8, 2012Unsafe abortion accounts the fourth highest cause of maternal mortality in many developing countries, owing to the alarming rate of unwanted pregnancies among young girls.
Sierra Leone is one of the countries where this problem is rife.
HRW on deaths of 100s of children from lead poison in Nigeria
May 7, 2012Lead poisoning at artisanal gold mines in Nigeria’s northern state of Zamfara has caused the deaths of some 400 children since March 2010, said Human Rights Watch (HRW), ahead of a big international conference on the issue in Abuja on 9 May.
ICRC on humanitarian plight of people in northern Mali
May 5, 2012The fighting that led to the overrunning of the principal cities of Kidal, Gao and Timbucktu plunged northern Mali into chaos and set off a big humanitarian crisis.
Alarming use of sex stimulants in Ghana, Drugs Board warns
May 3, 2012Ghana's Food and Drugs Board has warned its citizens of what it called, the sometimes ‘dire and dangerous consequences’ of using aphrodisiacs or sex stimulant, especially for many of the country’s young male population.
Mali pro-junta forces consolidating positions
May 2, 2012Forces loyal to Captain Amadou Sanogo’s junta are consolidating their positions, after taking control of the “Red Beret” presidential guard base in Bamako, following two days of fighting.
Ivory Coast humanitarian programmes Under-funded
May 1, 2012--2 million may not access health care
By Suy Kahofi/WADR Abidjan Correspondent
Lack of adequate funding is undermining the implementation of humanitarian programmes in the Ivory Coast, said the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in this West African country.
Ghana historic anti pneumonia, diarrhea vaccines
April 30, 2012Ghana has become the first African country to introduce pneumococcal and rotavirus vaccines in its national immunization programme.
ICRC wants end to attacks on health workers ahead of int’l confab
April 30, 2012‘’One of the first victims of war is the health-care system itself, said Marco Baldan, the chief war surgeon of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
It is to highlight the scale of this rising danger and find urgent solution to the problem that the ICRC is on Monday beginning a big international conference of all stakeholders in Senegal’s capital, Dakar.
Malaria drug resistance threatens Africa--WWARN
April 27, 2012A threat pending on developing countries regarding its ability to fight malaria is drug resistance to the disease, according to the Executive Director of the Worldwide Anti-malaria Resistance Network (WWARN) Philippe Guerin.
WHO says alcohol use a big, growing public health threat
April 22, 2012The World Health Organization (WHO) has said countries need to recognize that alcohol consumption is a big and growing public health threat and take appropriate action.
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