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Current Feed ContentCommunities sensitised on safe motherhood in CRRThe National Reproductive and Child Health Unit in collaboration with the Central River Region regional health management team with fundin from World Health Organisation, last Friday concluded a two-day community sensitisation on safe motherhood at Jahanka and Kataba Omar in CRR. The aim of the sensitisation was to increase awareness of husbands and families to have moral responsibilities to support and encourage their pregnant women and nursing women to attend clinic regularly. Addressing...COTE D'IVOIRE: Rate of malaria infection unchanged despite peaceThe number of peopleinfected with and dying from malaria in Cote d’Ivoire has not improved over thelast five years, despite the end of the civil war in the country, the head ofthe country’s malaria programme Dr. Moïse San Koffi told IRIN. “Right now, the statistics are stagnant,” he said.Between 2003 and 2008, 172,000 children between zero and five years-old diedevery year from malaria in Cote d’Ivoire, he said, equivalent to eightchildren per hour. Some 60 percent of consultations at...SWAZILAND: Enough is enough, say nursesTired of being taken for granted, Swaziland's nurses have opted for industrial action after the government ignored a deadline to improve conditions of service. After marching to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in the capital, Mbabane, on Friday to deliver their ultimatum, Swaziland's nurses registered their anger with an overtime ban beginning on Monday to protest delayed pay, unsafe working conditions, and crumbling facilities. "We must start somewhere, so we've chosen the overtime... |
