November 2013 YahooNews; Since it’s the holiday shopping season, imagine for a moment that Amazon (AMZN) could only fulfill your purchase requests 80% of the time. If their servers were overloaded, you’d get a message inviting you to come back later. Amazon would even offer to send you an alert …

November 2013 ; Nurses at the Levy Mwanawasa General Hospital have joined their colleagues at the University Teaching Hospital by downing tools following government’s failure to meet their demands. The nurses at the University Teaching Hospital have continued their strike action despite Health Minister Joseph Kasonde ordering them to go …

November 2013  Health-e; Major Gauteng hospitals such as Steve Biko and Charlotte Maxeke academic hospitals are struggling to cope with the patient loads, leaving some waiting months for treatment. When these patients do reach the front of the queue, their care is compromised due to regular equipment breakdowns, and shortages …

November 2013 ThisDay; The multiplicity of conflicting data on health by various agencies is a major impediment to an effective and efficient health care delivery system in the country. Director, Disease Control and Immunisation, National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), Dr. Emmanuel Abanida said resolving the conflict in the …

November 2013 DailyNews;An infant gets respiratory difficulties and it will take not more than five minutes before it loses its life, that being one among many causes leading to deaths of 144 infants daily, making it 48,000 of them per annum in Tanzania. In a similar case, a woman gets …

November 2013  Vanguard; Private medical doctors under the auspices of the Association of General and Private Medical Practitioners of Nigeria, AGPMPN, Lagos Apapa Zone, have called for the review and appropriate funding of the country’s health sector with a view to enhancing efficiency as well as guarantee patients access to …

November 2013 ShopsProject; The time is now to build and sustain momentum for family planning to become institutionalized in the public and private health sectors in Nigeria. Every household must be positioned to make an informed choice on number of children they will have. All stakeholders must be positioned to …

November 2013 WHONewsLetter; Professor Thomas Zeltner: former Director-General of the Swiss National Health Authority and Secretary of Health of Switzerland, has a long history as an innovative and progressive leader in national and international public health. In June, WHO Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan appointed Professor Zeltner as her Special Envoy. …

November 2013 CentreforGlobalHealthPolicy; Dr. Jeffrey Sachs is shocked by how difficult it is to raise just $5 billion per year for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria. And he shared why, today, at a meeting hosted by the Friends of the Global Fight. It is a tiny …

October 2013 GaviAlliance; Lord Boateng of the UK Parliament helped kick-off the Mid-Term Review meeting by hosting a panel discussion exploring the importance of parliamentary commitment to immunisation- among MPs in donor and implementing countries Cross-party commitment Lord Boateng, MP, United Kingdom Parliament: “GAVI crosses all political boundaries. We come …