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/ 30 January 2009
Zimbabwe’s opposition MDC decided on Friday to enter a unity government with Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF, an opposition party official said.
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/ 23 January 2009
More than 50 000 are infected with cholera in Zimbabwe’s epidemic, which has killed 2 773 people, the WHO said on Friday.
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/ 22 January 2009
The cholera death toll in Zimbabwe has soared to 2 755, according to latest World Health Organisation statistics published on Thursday.
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/ 21 January 2009
East African farmers have become key suppliers of the active ingredient in the most effective malaria drug available.
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/ 14 January 2009
Zimbabwe’s cholera outbreak has killed more than 2 100, it was reported on Wednesday, as neighbouring states sounded the alarm over rising cases.
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/ 14 January 2009
Zimbabwe’s Attorney General on Wednesday branded detained human rights campaigner Jestina Mukoko a threat to society.
Zimbabwe’s cholera epidemic could get worse as the rainy season peaks, its health minister said on Monday.
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/ 13 December 2008
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to hold talks next week with the UN on Zimbabwe, as Harare blamed Britain for a cholera outbreak.
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/ 2 December 2008
A deadly cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe has killed nearly 500 people in the biggest outbreak recorded recently in the crisis-hit country.
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/ 20 November 2008
Researchers have sold over 1 000 solar stoves to rural families in Senegal to prove that the ovens can improve health and cut fuel consumption.
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/ 30 October 2008
Thousands of villagers in south-west Pakistan waited for aid on Thursday after an earthquake that destroyed homes and killed at least 215 people.
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/ 16 October 2008
Almost half of SA’s adults are too fat. The health risks are huge: heart-related illness, often triggered by obesity, is the second-biggest killer.
Zambia and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have mounted investigations into the unknown disease that has claimed four lives in SA.
When her baby turned blue, Nivetha Biju rushed the child to the emergency room of an Indian hospital and watched as the baby lost consciousness.
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/ 18 September 2008
Malaria killed nearly one million people in 2006, with children under five and African countries bearing the brunt, the WHO said on Thursday.
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/ 10 September 2008
The increasing onslaught of cancer in Africa has been largely overlooked and ignored.
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/ 9 September 2008
The M2 Coffee Shop’s Grade 10 Autumn Academy this year unpacked the global skills shortage by highlighting some frightening worldwide statistics.
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Signs that work on preventing the spread of HIV is bearing fruit were highlighted recently by UNAids’s two-yearly report on the state of the epidemic.
A drive to tackle the tide of multi-drug- resistant tuberculosis spreading around the world was announced by the World Health Organisation last week.
An international standard for tomatoes has ended about seven years of intense debates between countries on what qualifies as a proper tomato.
Community-administered healthcare is incredibly effective in combating a range of illnesses, including river blindness and malaria.
World Health report says non-communicable diseases are the ‘leading threats to human health’. Belinda Beresford reports.
The United Nations has systematically exaggerated the scale of the Aids pandemic and the risk of the HIV virus affecting heterosexuals, says Professor James Chin, a former senior Aids official with the World Health Organisation.
Nearly three million people in the developing world are now on drugs to prevent their HIV infection becoming Aids, two years after the original deadline set by the World Health Organisation.
Sunburned expedition leaders fresh from a journey down the Zambezi River to call attention to malaria said on Tuesday that countries must work together to eliminate the disease. The Roll Back Malaria expedition followed the river through six countries in Southern Africa, delivering insecticide-treated nets and medication.
The World Health Organisation’s 193 member states on Saturday overcame their deep divisions over intellectual property rules and endorsed a strategy to help improve developing-country access to drugs and medical tests.
Forty-five children living in the Australian mining town of Mount Isa, where Xstrata produces 4% of the world’s lead, have unsafe blood lead levels above World Health Organisation standards. Xstrata and local and state governments are facing legal action from the parents of a six-year-old Mount Isa girl who has suffered injuries to her brain and nervous system.
China stepped up the fight on Thursday to stave off disease among over five million earthquake homeless as it tried to boost morale with plans to bring the Olympic flame through the disaster zone. Ten days after the quake, China was faced with the challenge of how to reconstruct shattered communities after more than 74 000 people were confirmed dead or missing.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Tuesday appealed to governments to do more to save Africa from disease. ”We cannot lose Africa,” Tutu told the 193-nation World Health Assembly. ”The cradle of humankind” is threatened by ”disease, conflict and destruction”.
Insufficient food, climate change and pandemic flu are global crises that could unravel progress in public health, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) director general said on Monday. "These three critical events, these clear threats to international security, have the potential to undo much hard-won progress in public health," WHO director general Margaret Chan said.
Torrential tropical downpours lashed Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta on Friday, deepening the misery of an estimated 2,5-million destitute survivors of Cyclone Nargis and further hampering aid efforts. Burma state television raised its official death toll on Thursday to 43 328. Independent experts say the figures are probably far higher.