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Malaria vaccine for Africa likely to be distributed from 2015 - The Times 2nd October 2009
"The first vaccine against malaria is likely to be distributed in Africa from 2015 after the “milestone moment” of the continent’s largest final-stage drug trial, scientists have told The Times. "
Global recession hits India's baby business - The Independent 26th October 2009
"The global economic downturn has hit businesses around the world, from big banks to local shops, leaving millions in fear of losing their livelihoods and desperate to cut down on spending.
But among the recession's more unlikely victims have been infertile Western couples wanting children and prepared to travel abroad to use Indian surrogate mothers as a cheaper alternative to fertility clinics back home."
African states urged to curbs child AIDS infections - The Independent 23rd October 2009
"African leaders were urged Thursday to increase efforts to end HIV infections among children and women, in the world's worst affected continent.
Speaking at the launch of the Campaign to End Pediatric HIV-AIDS, activist Graca Machel said that only two countries in Africa spent a target of 15 percent of their budgets on health."
Zimbabwe in race against time to prevent new cholera outbreak - The Independent 20th October 2009
"Workers trudge through foul-smelling mud in a trench seeping with clean drinking water and raw sewage in one of the Harare neighbourhoods hardest hit by last year's cholera epidemic.
The repair work is a race against time to patch the city's sewage system before the rainy season begins in November, when health workers fear the water-borne disease could erupt again."
Hospital boss off to India to recruit doctors - The Whitehaven News 14th October 2009
"HOSPITAL bosses will travel to India later this month in a bid to recruit doctors to come and work in Cumbria.
During the past five years the North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust has been struggling to fill a number of consultant posts at both Carlisle and Whitehaven."
Move to cut child diarrhoea death - BBC Health News 14th October 2009
"An international initiative has been launched to cut the number of children who die from diarrhoea around the world.
The World Health Organization and UNICEF said urgent action was needed to combat a disease which kills an estimated 1.5m children a year."
Nigeria lifts gunshot medical ban - BBC Health News 14th October 2009
"Nigeria has lifted a law which forced hospitals to withhold emergency treatment from victims of gun attacks until a police report had been filed.\n\nOfficials revoked the law, in place since the 1980s, over concerns about a rising death rate from bullet wounds. "
Poorer nations to get donated swine flu vaccine - The Independent 14th October 2009
"About 100 developing countries will receive international donations of swine flu vaccines, maybe as soon as November, a World Health Organisation official said Monday.
"The director general of WHO will approve most likely today a list of countries for the donations," said Marie-Paule Kieny, who heads the WHO's vaccine research unit."
Zimbabwe women combat HIV stigma - BBC Health News 13th October 2009
"Women's football is being used in Zimbabwe to confront the stigma associated with HIV and Aids.
A total of 16 women's teams now take part in competitions for players who have openly declared that they are HIV positive. "
Poorer nations get swine flu jabs - BBC Health News 10th October 2009
"About 100 developing nations will begin receiving donations of the vaccine against swine flu as early as November, the World Health Organization says.
Millions of doses of the vaccine against H1N1 are being donated by pharmaceutical companies. "
Surgeon decribes horror of quake victims - Asian Image 10th October 209
"A British surgeon working with victims of the Indonesian earthquake has described the horrific injuries he has been treating.
Waseem Saeed, 46, has been operating flat out since arriving in Padang on the island of Sumatra following the quake on September 30"
Gareth Thomas: Basic healthcare for the world's poor should be a right, not a luxury - The Independent 6th October 2009
"Last week I was in Sierra Leone, where I met Aisata Jabbie, an 18 year old mother in agony after complications during a home birth. She couldn't afford to give birth in the local hospital.
She is just one of millions of mothers and children suffering from preventable diseases and conditions that a basic level of healthcare would cure. Yet the vast majority of the world's poorest people have no access to any kind of medical facilities, and those who do are often seen by untrained medical staff dealing with chronic shortages of medicine "
Courts test Zambia's HIV policy - BBC Health News 6th October 2009
"Two ex-officers in Zambia's air force are suing the military, saying they were tested and treated for HIV without their knowledge.
Stanley Kingaipe and Charles Chookole claim they were dismissed for being HIV positive - claims the air force denies. "
Malaria in Africa: The net gains of keeping mosquitoes at bay - Daily Telegraph 5th October 2009
"Malaria is one of Africa's biggest child killers. The WHO has set a target to provide mosquito nets to all those at risk by 2010. But providing the nets is just half the battle. "
Aid group in child mortality plea - BBC Health News 5th October 2009
"Dramatically reducing global child mortality would cost much less than people around the world think, an international aid agency says.
Launching its biggest-ever campaign, Save the Children said $40bn (£25bn) would radically lower the number of children who die of treatable diseases."
Uganda's misplaced health millions - BBC Health News 4th October 2009
"On a sun-drenched Sunday after a weekend in the country with his wife and two colleagues, Diego Angemi drives from the Sipi Falls in eastern Uganda towards the capital, Kampala.
He has travelled this stretch of road many times before but this time there is a dramatic turn of events. A hit-and-run accident has left a boy lying unconscious at the side of the road. "
East Lancashire nurse taking hospital gear to war-torn African country - Lancashire Telegraph 3rd October 2009
"A MATRON from East Lancashire has given the ‘gift of health’ to communities in Africa.
Lorraine Goldsborough was determined to make good use of redundant health equipment from local community hospitals. "
'My life as a Somali doctor' - BBC Health News 2nd October 2009
"Somali Dr Hafsa Abdurrahman Mohamed, 26, describes what it is like working at a hospital in Marere, a town in the southern Islamist-controlled part of the country.
She was one of the 20 student doctors to graduate from a medical school in the capital, Mogadishu, in December 2008 - the first to do so for nearly two decades. "
Letter: Drug trials in Africa - The Guardian 2nd October 2009
"Concerns about ethics of drug trials in developing countries usually focus on fair respect for participants (Editorial, 28 September). Far less attention is paid to whether they are relevant to the population under study. Often, clinical trials are done in developing countries to cut costs, but the target market is Europe and the US, and so many clinical questions important to patient care in developing countries are left unfunded and unanswered because they are not relevant to western populations."
'Tremendous' progress in global Aids treatment, says WHO chief - The Guardian 30th September 2009
"More than 4 million people in low and middle-income countries are using drugs to prevent them from dying of Aids, according to a UN report published today – but that is less than half the number of those who need them.
The report, from UNAIDS, Unicef and the World Health Organisation, highlights the substantial progress in treatment provision and care for people with HIV infection in the world's poorest countries."
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