June 2013 TheAfricaReport; Significant progress has been made in improving health in the poorest countries, narrowing the gap between nations with the best and worst health status in the past two decades, World Health Organisation (WHO) 2013 statistics indicate. 

It attributes the progress to efforts made to meet the Millennium …

June 2013 TheAfricaReport; Despite substantial improvements in recent years, 44 million women in the developing world, as well as their newborns, lacked facility-based delivery care in 2012, a new study by the Guttmacher Institute has revealed. Of the vast majority of these women with an unmet need for delivery care, …

June 2013 TheAtlantic; The importance of sleep is perhaps most realized when we become sick. When we are hospitalized and most in need of every ounce of health, though, hospital care practically guarantees that we won’t get good sleep. Fortunately, two approaches hold promise to improve sleep for patients: one …

June 2013 TheAtlantic; Chief Kwataine, who’s from the Ntcheu district in central Malawi, was working as an English teacher in 2003 when one day, a woman in the village went into labor and, as was the standard practice at the time, was whisked away to see an untrained birthing attendant …

June 2013 TheAtlantic; Chief Kwataine, who’s from the Ntcheu district in central Malawi, was working as an English teacher in 2003 when one day, a woman in the village went into labor and, as was the standard practice at the time, was whisked away to see an untrained birthing attendant …

June 2013 MalawiNewsAgency; The Medical Council of Malawi says it is concerned with the proliferation of illegal clinics in the country and has since embarked on a nationwide anti-illegal clinics campaign. Malawi News Agency has learnt through the Registrar of the Medical Council of Malawi, Kondwani Nkandawire the council is …

June 2013 MANAonline; President Dr Joyce Banda says investment in the health sector is vital in quest of improving maternal health in the country. Speaking during the official launch of a new Out Patient Department, Pharmacy Building, Newly Installed Solar System and Maternity Waiting Home at St Gabriel’s Hospital at …

June 2013 SciDevNet; Africa’s first ‘container hospital’, developed by Chinese scientists, could be ready for use by the end of the month (June), following two years of development. It will be located in either Cameroon or Namibia, depending on government approval.Its developers say that the hospital’s ten component containers can …

June 2013 Guardian; Shocking television images of starving people, saved from death by humanitarian food drops, have become all too common over the past few decades. But there are many children across the developing world who are not starving or even hungry, yet they are struggling to get the nutritious …

June 2013 TheObserver;  A report by Save the Children International finds that of all babies born on any given day in Uganda, at least 41 die daily within a minute of delivery from preventable causes.   By the end of the year, 15,100 babies will have died on their birthday …