Health

Monrovia, 31 July– Every day, hundreds of starving people trapped by fighting in downtown Monrovia risk the stray bullets and random mortar shells to trudge out to the relatively peaceful eastern suburbs in search of […]

Geneva, 29 July– The new head of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today announced plans to rapidly step up the global fight to eradicate polio and named a senior agency expert in SARS […]

GENEVA/JOHANNESBURG , 29 July– GENEVA/JOHANNESBURG – The United Nations today launched a 2003/04 Regional Consolidated Appeal (CAP) for southern Africa to provide life-saving assistance for 6.5 million people severely weakened by consecutive failed harvests, extreme […]

Geneva, 21 July– – The new chief of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO), Jong-Wook Lee, took office today with a pledge to focus the agency on achieving results in countries, helping to tackle […]

Johannesburg, 17 July– Zimbabwe’s livestock industry was dealt another blow this week with reports of an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) on two farms south of the capital, Harare. Officials told IRIN an investigation was […]

Lagos, 15 July– Two influential Islamic groups in Nigeria have urged Muslims to resist the government’s immunisation programme aimed at eradicating the polio virus. They alleged the immunisation is dangerous. The Supreme Council for Shari’ah […]

Johannesburg, 15 July– Doctors in Mozambique are hoping that a new malaria vaccine will provide a breakthrough in lowering the toll the disease is taking. Trials starting on Thursday are expected to test the efficacy […]

Monrovia, 15 July– Liberia’s Health Minister, Peter Coleman, called on Monday for international peacekeepers to come and help improve security in the interior of the war-torn country so that humanitarian aid could reach desperate people […]