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Hospitals in crisis
Patients are dying unnecessarily because South Africas public hospitals are over-burdened, under-staffed and poorly managed.
Mother's Milk Saves Lives
Although experts say that breastfeeding gives children the best start in life, protecting them from life-threatening diseases and providing essential nutrients, barely a third of all infants in developing countries are exclusively breastfed for the first six months.
HIV rate stable in teens by increasing among older women
Pregnant women aged between 25 and 29, living in KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga
and Gauteng are worst affected by HIV.
Top level push to tackle priorities in sexual and reproductive health
20 JUNE 2006 GENEVA -- Leaders of the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, are coordinating action to reverse the global trend of deteriorating levels of sexual and reproductive health and reduce the adverse impact on mothers, babies and young people.
Health Dept issues polio alert
THE national Department of Health has urged all private and public sector health professionals to be on high alert for cases of polio after an outbreak of the disease in neighbouring Namibia.
As Babies Are Born Earlier, They Risk Problems Later
More and more babies each year are being born just shy of spending a full pregnancy in their mothers' wombs, putting more infants at risk of health and possibly developmental problems because they enter the world before they are ready.
WHO Probes Bird Flu Cluster: Signs of Human Transmission Sought in Indonesian Deaths
JAKARTA, Indonesia, May 18 -- An international team of health investigators arrived on the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Thursday to determine whether an unusually large cluster of human bird flu cases indicates that the highly lethal virus has mutated into a form easily spread among people.
Travel-related risks pose unique malaria threat in South Africa
Malaria remains one of the leading causes of infection, morbidity and mortality in Africa. It is estimated between 300 and 500 million new cases are reported worldwide every year, and malaria causes one million childhood deaths annually.
Liberia: Political will and resources needed to cut child mortality
Of the ten countries in the world that have the worst rates of child mortality, six* are in West Africa - a region that has seen more than its share of repression and civil strife over recent years.
TB claims 1,7-million lives as it keeps its hold on Africa
Most of the world is on target to reduce the impact of tuberculosis (TB), but efforts have yet to bear fruit in Africa where the disease goes hand in hand with Aids, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday.
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