September 2016 DailyMonitor; Experts from over 100 countries around the globe have convened at Tampere, Finland, for the 12th World Conference on Injury prevention and safety Promotion. According to Dr Etienne Krug, Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Department for the Management of Non communicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and …
Read More »East African Countries Create Fund to Support Dr. Tedros’s WHO Bid
September 2016 DrTedros; East African countries have thrown their weight behind the African Union’s candidate for the World Health Organization, Dr. Tedros Adhanom, in a major way. Multiple countries have joined together in creating a fund to support Dr. Tedros’s candidacy in the election for the next Director General of …
Read More »Donors Pledge Billions to Battle Aids, TB and Malaria
September 2016 theglobalfund; At the launch of the Global Fund’s Fifth Replenishment, donors pledged over US$12.9 billion for the next three years, demonstrating extraordinary global commitment toward ending the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria for good. Hosted by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who stressed youth engagement as a key …
Read More »KENYA: Safaricom’s M-tiba health App to go nationwide
September 2016 TheStandardNewspaper; M-tiba, the mobile application that helps people save for healthcare, is set to go nationwide. The application, which is modelled on Safaricom’s popular M-Pesa platform, has been developed by CarePay, a financial engagement firm that helps individuals manage health expenses, PharmAccess and Safaricom. M-tiba is a mobile …
Read More »Alcohol consumption and fecundability: prospective Danish cohort study
September 2016 bmj; In summary, our study showed that consumption of 14 or more servings of alcohol a week was slightly associated with reduced fecundability, but consumption of lower amounts seemed to have no discernible effect on fertility. Nonetheless, because the fetus may be particularly vulnerable to alcohol during the …
Read More »Govt-Backed Ehealth Tools Set to Revolutionise Healthcare in South Africa, Kenya and Ghana
September 2016 PRNewswire; eHealth is disrupting healthcare delivery in Africa by offering governments and vendors a way to curb low resource issues and expand the reach and affordability of healthcare. Governments are bolstering the capacity of the healthcare workforce by using mHealth, video telemedicine and healthcare IT. Kenya, South Africa …
Read More »KENYA: Doctors in Nyeri Set to Go on Strike as County Fails to Address Grievances
September 2016 DailyNation; Doctors in Nyeri are set to down tools on Friday for what they have said is poor staffing, delayed salaries and failure to give them study leave unless the county addresses their grievances. In a notice issued last week, the doctors that persistent failure by the county …
Read More »UGANDA: Govt Unveils Shs1.2 Trillion Child Policy
September 2016 DailyMonitor; President Museveni is today expected to launch the government’s Shs1.2 trillion National Early Childhood Development policy that lays out commitments and guidelines for children’s protection and development. According to details unveiled at a press conference in Kampala yesterday, the new plan seeks to promote holistic early childhood …
Read More »Global goal to reduce maternal deaths threatened by lack of access to quality care: study
September 2016 reuters; Unequal access to health services and poor quality care for pregnant women is hampering progress in meeting international goals for eradicating deaths during childbirth, researchers said on Thursday. U.N. member states agreed a year ago to reduce the rate of maternal mortality, defined as a woman’s death …
Read More »KENYA: Kenyans to wait longer for vital cancer centres
September 2016 DailyNation; Kenyans suffering from cancer will have to wait another “two to three years” for the treatment centres they were promised last year. This was announced by Health Principal Secretary Nicholas Muraguri in an interview with the Daily Nation on Tuesday. The government has invested Sh21 billion in …
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