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Namibia: Vigilance Combats Foot and Mouth

(AllAfrica) Community support and collaboration with the agricultural sector can assist in the detection of new cases of foot and mouth disease and lung sickness in livestock. Through a collaborative initative with the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry, cattle farmers in the northern areas are trained to recognise the symptoms indicative of infection, and  Read More »

The Future of the U.S.-South Africa HIV/AIDS Partnership

(CSIS) South Africa has the highest burden of HIV/AIDS in the world, with 5.6 million people living with the virus and over 400,000 newly infected annually. Since 2004, the U.S. government has committed more than $4 billion to combating HIV/AIDS in South Africa—the largest U.S. investment in HIV/AIDS worldwide. Continued progress in controlling HIV/AIDS in  Read More »

Scale-up of HIV treatment in rural South Africa dramatically increases adult life expectancy

(EurekAlert) The large antiretroviral treatment (ART) scale-up in a rural community in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, has led to a rapid and dramatic increase in population adult life expectancy—a gain of 11.3 years over eight calendar years (2004-2011)—and the benefit of providing ART far outweighs the cost, according to new research from Harvard School of Public  Read More »

The polio murders

(NigerianTribune) THE killing of nine health workers involved in the polio vaccination in Kano is a tragedy long in the making. Since Dr Datti Ahmed led other clerics to oppose the vaccinations during the Obasanjo government, the well-being of young children in the northern part of the country has been constrained by the prejudice and  Read More »

Uganda: The Power of Prevention During Epidemic Outbreaks

(AllAfrica) When it comes to Ebola hemorrhagic fever, you can’t be too careful. It remains one of the most lethal viruses known to man and there is no known cure. Its highly infectious and contagious nature means that an outbreak of the fever must be immediately identified and isolated. This was the situation in late  Read More »

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