Health

Monrovia, 12 March, 2004— Suspected yellow fever cases have appeared in eight of the 15 counties in Liberia, three of them along the border with Guinea and Cote d’Ivoire, a senior official of World Health […]

Bangui, 9 March, 2004— The Ministry of Health in the Central African Republic (CAR) and its partners began on Tuesday a massive anti-meningitis immunisation drive in the northwestern town of Batangafo and surrounding areas in […]

Kano, 8 March, 2004— Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim Kano State, which is boycotting a global polio immunisation programme on suspicion that the vaccines are tainted by anti-fertility substances, plans to order its own supplies from Muslim […]

Mbabane, 5 March, 2004— After years of resisting the introduction of antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) in Swaziland, the government bowed to pressure from international donor organisations last year and permitted their distribution. However, what followed has […]

Bujumbura, 3 March, 2004— Rumonge District, in Burundi’s southern province of Bururi, has registered 93 cases of cholera resulting in four deaths since January, health services have reported. The director of Rumonge hospital, Dr Innocent […]

Bangui, 3 March, 2004— Residents in the western town of Bouar, the Central African Republic (CAR), have appealed to the government to help them access safe water in order to contain typhoid, which has been […]

Monrovia, 24, February, 2004— The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will begin a mass immunization campaign later this week to combat an outbreak of yellow […]

Lagos, 24 February, 2004— Two more states in northern Nigeria have refused to participate in a global vaccination campaign to eradicate polio which kicked off this week. However, one state has lifted the suspension of […]