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KENYA: Cholera kills 40 in western region

At least 42 people have died in western Kenya following an outbreak of Cholera, health officials said. "At least 701 cases of the disease have been reported in the western province of Nyanza," SK Sharif, the senior deputy director of the area’s medical services, said on 2 April. The disease, which was initially reported in the districts of Rongo, Siaya and Suba in January, had spread to other districts in the region despite control measures. The most affected areas included the districts...

COTE D'IVOIRE: Clean up campaign for hospitals

Hygiene in most hospitals in Cote d’Ivoire is so low that the ministry of health has launched a nationwide clean-up campaign. “We hope to eliminate from our hospitals [bad] practices that add risks to patients’ health,” Health Minister Rémi Allah Kouadio told journalists at the campaign’s launch on 28 March in Abidjan. He said Ivorians are at “very great risk” of infection every time they seek medical treatment, although he also said that the extent to which facilities are contaminated has...

UGANDA: Home-based HIV treatment extends lives (Audio)

Off the beaten track east of Uganda's capital, Kampala, a four-wheel-drive vehicle is taking a nurse, a community health worker and a cooler full of life-saving medication to Gayaza village, where they will call on homes affected by HIV/AIDS. Although more Ugandans than ever are on antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, many HIV-positive people in remote areas still struggle to get the life-prolonging drugs: health professionals are scarce (about one doctor per 12,500 people) and community health...

CAR: Charity suspends mobile clinic in northeastern province

 Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has suspended mobile clinic activities outside the main towns in northeastern Central African Republic's (CAR) Vakaga province, following the killing of a woman in one of its ambulances. The shooting, the medical charity said, followed a series of attacks and threats against humanitarian organisations and health workers in the past months. The woman was killed when an unidentified gunman fired on the vehicle on 10 March, it added. The death was the second in...

Intermittent preventive treatment discussed

Atleast twenty health workers in Central River Region CRR on Sunday February 10 concluded a three day training on intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) at the regional health office resource centre in Basang. The training which was sponsored by the Global Fund through the National Malaria Control Programme drew participants from different health facilities in the region. In his opening remarks, the CRR Regional Health Officer Karamba F. Keita said to combat  the adverse consequences of...

Bed nets dipping registers success in CRR

The National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) had over the years instituted several strategies in preventing and controlling the prevalence of malaria in the country. The use of insecticide treated nets and the distribution of long lasting nets to the communities have proven to be very effective in the fight against malaria. The latest of this kind of programme is the national mass bed nets dipping week-long campaign held in all the regions in the country which concluded last week. In Central...