Health
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How Climate-Change Spreads Mosquito-Borne Diseases
Oct 25, 2017By Andrew Mambondiyani Antwerp, Belgium– Climate-change is contributing to the spreading and worsening of mosquito-borne diseases, experts have said. Various experts at 10th European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health (ECTMIH) in Antwerp, Belgium concurred... -
A Journalist’s Passion For Health Issues Goes Beyond Reporting
Oct 23, 2017By Andrew Mambondiyani Bharathi Ghanashyam, an award-winning journalist based in India, has a passion for health issues in developing countries that transcends mere journalism. And when she talked about health challenges in developing countries at... -
Community Watch: Kaduna’s Mishigi In Need Of Social Amenities
Oct 23, 2017Mishigi, Nigeria – Most residents of Mishigi villages located in Igabi local government area of Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria, are subsistence farmers living by a riverbank that separates them from other communities. Despite thriving in... -
Health inequalities in developing countries worry experts
Oct 20, 2017Andrew Mambondiyani ANTWERP, BELGIUM – The greatest challenge in the world health remains the health inequalities with and within the low and middle-income countries. The governor of the province of Antwerp, Prof Dr Cathy Berx said this... -
The Cost of Accessing Free Health Care in Malawi
Sep 25, 2017MZIMBA, MALAWI – The memory of how she came close to death is still fresh on Jane Chavula’s mind. By the time she arrived Mzimba South District Hospital two years ago to be delivered of her... -
Free Maternity Waiting Homes – A Relief For Zimbabwe’s Poor Pregnant Women
Sep 18, 2017By Ray Mwareya Expensive maternity fees in Zimbabwe are a nightmare for pregnant women. In state or church clinics, where the majority of the poor give birth, charges can rise to $50 (USD) per month... -
Breaking The Silence: How Women In Malawi Find Treatment For Fistula
Jun 27, 2017By Kelvin Tembo Fyness Ngoma’s happiness after delivery of a baby in 1990 was short lived. She could not understand why her urine had become uncontrollable. “I gave birth to a baby girl at Chulu Health... -
Safari Doctors: No Saviour Mentality
Jun 3, 2017Umra Omar is the founder of Safari Doctors, an organisation amplifying an innovative healthcare model in under-served and hard-to-reach rural communities in Lamu, Kenya. Lamu is a remote rural in the eastern coast of Kenya. The... -
Opinion: What ‘She Decides’ Means for the Global Gag Rule on Sexual Reproductive Health
May 17, 2017By Johnstone Kuya and Michael Okun Lillian Anyango is only 18 years old and is already a mother. She became pregnant when she was 16 years old and had to put her dream of becoming... -
Preventing Unsafe Abortion and its Consequences in Kenya
Apr 2, 2017By Oliech Okun OPINION –Unsafe abortion is widespread and it does not know boundaries or age. The burden of unsafe abortion is largely borne by those who are most vulnerable and least able to access safe...