Health

Durban– South Africa’s first national AIDS conference kicked off on Sunday with a somewhat subdued opening ceremony – even the activists’ shouts for access to treatment were muted. But for many, this conference could not […]

Washington, 4 August– The surprised reaction on the part of the young man just receiving the results of his HIV test caught Urbanas Ngunga off guard. The young man ”suddenly dashed out the door into […]

Heksinki, 4 August– With tobacco killing 4.9 million people each year, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) has called for extra measures going beyond those required by the new tobacco control treaty unanimously adopted […]

London, 4 August– A major French study SU.VI.MAX has produced the dramatic finding that men who took a vitamin and mineral antioxidant supplement daily over 7.5 years cut their risk of cancer by 31% and […]

Washington, 1 August– Those living in sub-Saharan Africa not only fear contracting HIV/AIDS through sexual intercourse, but are often at equal risk when they visit their local health care clinics, where they are exposed to […]

Abidjan, 31 July– Liberia’s war-torn capital Monrovia is in the grip of serious cholera epidemic as a result of tens of thousands of people being displaced from their homes and living in conditions of extremely […]

Islamabad, 31 July– The office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has resumed operations in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) following an attack on a UN vehicle during a polio vaccination […]

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 […]