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Malaria: from good intentions to effective action

Friday, October 03, 2008

Getting life-saving malaria care to many more patientsIn a new report launched today, the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières...

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Heart Baby Needs Overseas Treatment

africa » gambia

Picture: Little Muhamed needs help

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Afour-month-old baby has been diagnosed at the RVTH suffering from brady-Cardiac-52-60 6pm and a systolic murmur and was recommended for...

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Can you help?

africa » gambia » latri kunda sabiji

Monday, September 22, 2008

Omar Kebba Joof, a six-year-old boy from Latrikunda Sabiji, has been suffering from respiratory difficulties since he was one week old. And now a...

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Opinion leaders sensitised on new anti-malaria drug in CRR

africa » gambia » central river region

Thursday, September 18, 2008

The Regional Health Management Team of the Central River Region recently conducted a two-day sensitisation for three hundred and forty-six opinion...

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4-year cerebral palsy patient seeks assistance

africa » gambia » bundung

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Ebrima Cham, a four-year old child residing in Bundung, is urgently in need of assistance in order to undergo overseas treatment. He is a cerebral...

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New malaria drug takes centre stage in WR

africa » gambia » western region

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Officials of the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP), at the end of last week, convened a sensitisation workshop on the new malaria medicine and...

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Six-Year-Old Boy in Need of Overseas Treatment

africa » gambia

Picture: Omar Kebba Joof

Monday, September 15, 2008

Omar Kebba Joof, a six-year-old boy from Latrikunda Sabiji, has been suffering from a respiratory difficulty since the age of a week and a medical...

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No bail for assailant

africa » gambia » kanifing

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Principal Magistrate Buba Jawo of the Kanifing Magistrates Court, on Monday, refused to grant bail to one Badou Cham of Serrekunda. The magistrate’s...

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IPTP a Strategy for Malaria Prevention and Control During Pregnancy

africa » gambia

Picture: Nurse adminstering the drugs

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Intermittent preventive Treatment in pregnancy (IPTP) also known as Intermittent Presumptive Therapy or Intermittent Protective Treatment ...

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Heart patients return from Venezuela

africa » gambia » banjul

Monday, September 08, 2008

Two of the four young children who underwent congenital heart surgery in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, returned to Banjul on Saturday...

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