EAST AFRICAN NEWS

November 2016 DailyNews; The government yesterday expressed commitment to collaborate with councils to ensure that the purchase of ambulances are the top priority in the 2017/18 budgets to improve public health. The commitment was given here by the Deputy Minister of State in the President’s Office, Regional Administration and Local …

November 2016 Reuters; The World Health Organization revised guidelines on antenatal care on Monday, saying pregnant women should have twice as many contacts with health providers – eight – as it recommended previously. More antenatal contacts help to reduce the chance of stillbirths, with 8 fewer perinatal deaths per 1,000 …

November 2016 theCitizen; Health without use of technology is becoming obsolete. In our daily struggles towards reviving and improving the quality of healthcare services, the component of Information Technology should not be left behind. The application of ICT in healthcare delivery is one of the key components in healthcare delivery …

November 2016 DailyNation; The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) has partnered with Kilifi County government and the Canadian government to address infant mortality and maternal deaths in the county. In the four-year partnership, AKDN through the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), the Aga Khan University (AKU) and the Aga Khan Health …

November 2016 UNNewsCentre; Warning that millions of people die every year from preventable surgical infections, particularly in developing countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) issued new guidelines today on tackling hospital-acquired infections with the aim of saving lives, cutting costs and arresting the spread of ‘superbugs.’ “No one should get …

November 2016 ReasonFoundation; The World Health Organization estimates that smoking kills nearly six million people a year world-wide, and the death toll has continued to rise since it set up the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control in 2005. So it’s dismaying that the WHO continues to advocate that vaping products, …

November 2016 ThomsonReutersF; Tanzania has suspended community-based HIV/AIDS prevention programs for gay men, the health minister said on Monday, in the latest crackdown on the high-risk group. Ummy Mwalimu, Tanzania’s minister for health said the government had received reports that some local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were promoting and normalizing same-sex …

November 2016 DailyNation; Ninety-nine mobile clinics are lying at the National Youth Service yard at Miritini in Mombasa County, six months after they were imported from China. Nation visited the yard on Sunday and saw the fully equipped 40-foot container clinics imported by Estama Investments Ltd stored there awaiting distribution. …

October 2016 msf; The Ebola outbreak that swept across West Africa infected more than 28,700 people and killed more than 11,300 men, women and children. Whole families were ripped apart and communities were devastated by the disease, which saw schools close, economies grind to a halt and health systems collapse, …

October 2016 CapitalFM; The Nairobi County Government has issued show cause letters to striking doctors after they boycotted their duties once again even after the signing of a return to work formula. Speaking to reporters Thursday, County Secretary Robert Ayisi pointed out that City Hall has also obtained a court …