October 2015 manaonline; Chairperson of the Coalition for Prevention of Unsafe Abortion (COPUA), Godfrey Kangaude has said the proposed law on abortion is a positive development although it was still restrictive.  Speaking after the Special Law Commission presented their proposed law on abortion to various stakeholders during a workshop held …

October 2015 LiberianObserver; Authorities of the Ministry of Health (MOH) have disclosed a seven-year (2015-2021) plan to develop a resilient health system at the cost of US$1.7 billion. The plan is part of government’s efforts to improve the health status of the Liberian population. One of the delegates at the …

October 2015 MozambiqueNewsAgency: The Mozambican parliament, the Assembly of the Republic, on Thursday unanimously approved a government bill to set the Order of Nurses, as the body that will represent the nursing profession. Unlike the existing Mozambican Nursing Association (ANEMO), which is a voluntary trade union, membership in the order …

October 2015 DailyTrust; Last week, cancer patients from different parts of the country, who are receiving treatment at the National Hospital, Abuja, staged a peaceful protest to draw government’s attention to their sufferings. They have been facing untold hardship accessing treatment due to the poor state of the radiotherapy machine …

October 2015 TheEastAfrican; Many subscribers have failed to pay their premiums for Mutuelle de santé, prompting the administrators of the community-based health insurance system to lock them out of the mutual health insurance scheme. According to information reaching Rwanda Today, of the total Mutuelle de santé subscribers only 65 per …

October 2015 WHONews; The World Health Organization’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) and the Malaria Policy Advisory Committee (MPAC) jointly recommended pilot projects to understand how to best use a vaccine that protects against malaria in young children. “This was a historic meeting with two of WHO’s …

October 2015 SciDevNet; Antibiotic resistance leading to life-threatening infections has grown globally to startling levels, a new report and an online tool show. The US-based Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy (CDDEP) released a comprehensive report, State of the world’s antibiotics, 2015, this month (17 September) that examines antibiotic …

October 2015 Health24; Mpumalanga Health MEC Gillion Mashego should step down with immediate effect. That is the call from the DA in the province who said MEC Mashego has failed to show decisive leadership in his department and under his watch, the condition of the health department has reached crisis …

October 2015 DailyMaverick; The 94 accused in Bloemfontein hardly sound like criminals. On Friday, profiles of the healthcare workers were read to the court, describing their hardships since losing their jobs last year. Most joined the profession after experiencing illness, personally or through friends and family, and worked in fields …

October 2015  AlJAzeera; Tanzania has launched a nationwide drive to help parents register their children’s births by mobile phone so the government can better plan health, education and other public services. The new system being rolled out across the country over the next five years allows a health worker to …