All articles in 'Health'
One cannot develop first class medical institutes if the main, supposedly highly trained people expe...
29th October 2012Despite representing 10% of the global population, Africa accounts for 68% of global HIV infections...
5th July 2011Given the Egyptian history of medicine in the world, it seems a quagmire that relative new-comers to...
20th February 2012Letter from 117 African Civil Society Organisations to African Union Summit on Upholding African Hea...
23rd July 2010Obama has launched the Global Health Initiative (GHI), allocating $63 billion to strengthen national...
26th July 2010Simple hand washing will help rationalize Ghanaians in regard to evil spirits, the devil, demons, or...
9th August 2010SADC governments must vigorously oppose the UN agencies that seek to put their own political power a...
8th February 2011A hundred dogs are killed, and activists and newspapers make it a huge story. Last year, almost one...
11th April 2011Most sick people cannot afford high insurance Photo courtesySome people are trying to ma...
27th September 2010One of the development issues expected of the modern Ghanaian/African state is how the state, as a r...
12th October 2010New tool to fight pneumonia in children in developing countries set for Kenya launch
15th February 2011That environment starts from the floor because, among others, the German asthma foundation (DAAB) ha...
20th May 2011Launch of the East African Community (EAC) Medicines Registration Harmonization (MRH) Project schedu...
20th March 2012Mental health affects progress towards the realisation of several of the Millennium Development Goal...
16th April 2012With current health care service delivery models, the reliance is on treatment, rather than preventi...
6th February 2012How prepared are governments, NGOs and business entrepreneurs to capitalize on the inevitable change...
5th December 2011Since 1998, as noted by UNAIDS, at least one million Africans die every year of AIDS in the continen...
15th December 2011The rise of NCDs has found its way into the mainstream interest of governments and lawmakers worldwi...
17th October 2011Politics alone will not overcome malaria. Technical interventions, such as spraying, can dramaticall...
22nd November 2011Why is it so difficult to follow a physical activity regime? The answer is simple.
8th July 2011How can such research appear in a major, peer-reviewed journal? Why is it universally praised by exp...
22nd August 2011A pilot in a cockpit Photo courtesyAir passenger s...
9th January 2012African leaders should take heed of those countries with pragmatic and humane drug policies.
27th March 2009For a pragmatist financial stability or the potential for financial stability is rated much higher t...
9th February 2009While "drug prices are rising at more than twice the rate of inflation," industry analysts and insid...
13th January 2009RTS,S/AS—created by GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals—is the leading clinical candidate in a global effor...
8th December 2008South Africa’s chronic shortage of skilled health care professionals continues unabated and the situ...
18th November 2008Government policies that have the objective of encouraging citizens to be healthier should be based...
11th November 2008For some, going overseas to have babies is an objective that must be met at all cost. It doesn’t mat...
21st October 2008The best option for SA is for government to remove all barriers to entry into private health care pr...
14th October 2008