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Rwanda
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Canada sells combined AIDS drugs to Rwanda

afrol News, 8 May - Canada's largest generic pharmaceutical company, Apotex, has won a tender to supply life saving triple combination AIDS drug "Apo Triavir" to the government of Rwanda.

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Gambia's health minister fired

afrol News, 14 November - Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has fired the Health Minister from office.

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Gambia: New malaria drugs available

afrol News, 31 October - The Gambia’s health officials have disclosed the availability of the new anti-malaria drug [coartem] in the country.

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South African scientists will rise to Gates' challenge

afrol News / SciDev.Net, 23 October - South African scientists say they will rise to the challenge set by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to pursue innovative research to resolve the world's worst health crises.

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Malnutrition, cholera bite DRC's war-ravaged community

afrol News, 19 October - Malnutrition and cholera have been biting thousands of people displaced and isolated by weeks of heavy fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu.

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» 16.10.2007 - Africa's ARV treatment fails
» 16.07.2007 - Stakeholders bang heads on 'Brain Drain' in Malawi
» 09.06.2007 - Cheap meningitis vaccine developed in West Africa
» 07.06.2007 - Zambia questions men touting HIV/AIDS cure
» 07.06.2007 - 2 million Zimbabwe children get polio vaccine
» 01.06.2007 - Antiretroviral generics to be produced in Ethiopia, Zimbabwe
» 16.03.2007 - Malaria drug to be grown in Southern Africa
» 08.03.2007 - Mali govt to "beat malaria this year"
» 01.03.2007 - New, cheap malaria cure hits African market
» 23.02.2007 - Gambia expels UN rep over AIDS cure grills
» 12.02.2007 - Gambia President continues "AIDS treatment"
» 15.01.2007 - 10,000 South African educators to die of AIDS
» 08.12.2006 - Nigeria boosts research into traditional medicine
» 08.12.2006 - China exports more anti-malaria drugs to Africa
» 16.10.2006 - Africans discuss safe blood transfusions
» 08.09.2006 - Mass polio vaccination in Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia
» 20.02.2006 - New mass campaign against polio in Sudan
» 01.02.2006 - Polio now wiped out in Egypt, Niger
» 10.11.2005 - New, cheap malaria cure for Africa presented
» 16.06.2005 - Polio at Somalia, Somaliland doorstep
» 25.04.2005 - Row over DDT use against malaria in Uganda
» 17.01.2005 - Sudan polio campaign "exceptionally successful"
» 13.01.2005 - New African pledge to eradicate polio
» 04.01.2005 - Darfur war may halt worldwide polio vaccination
» 14.12.2004 - Large child health campaign under way in Togo
» 15.10.2004 - Possible malaria vaccine presented in Mozambique
» 15.10.2004 - 7.3 million vaccinated against measles in Madagascar
» 12.10.2004 - Protests against AIDS drug price hike in South Africa
» 05.10.2004 - African polio campaign started in Nigeria
» 14.09.2004 - Uganda, Nigeria to regulate traditional healers
» 09.09.2004 - Traditional healers recognised by South African lawmakers
» 04.09.2004 - Nigeria reaffirms commitment to polio eradication
» 02.07.2004 - Niger polio situation "still a concern"
» 02.07.2004 - Little enthusiasm for generic AIDS drug plans in South Africa
» 01.07.2004 - Polio campaign in north Nigeria starts next week
» 01.06.2004 - New AIDS drug to begin distribution in Nigeria
» 18.05.2004 - Egypt soon polio-free; Niger, Nigeria later on
» 12.05.2004 - Polio vaccines now accepted all over Nigeria
» 06.04.2004 - New uses for West Africa's miracle yohimbe tree
» 15.03.2004 - First medical school in Eritrea opens
» 26.02.2004 - North Nigerian polio boycott "unforgivable"
» 25.02.2004 - Nigerian polio now spreads to Côte d'Ivoire
» 23.02.2004 - Kano state again halts Nigerian polio vaccination
» 20.02.2004 - Massive polio immunisation drive throughout Africa
» 14.01.2004 - Experimental Mozambican mass cholera vaccination begins
» 05.01.2004 - Nigerians confirm polio vaccine is safe
» 18.11.2003 - Human testing of Ebola vaccine has begun
» 08.11.2003 - Measles mass vaccination campaign launched in Guinea
» 09.09.2003 - New HIV test approved by Ugandan authorities
» 30.07.2003 - South African Nevirapine farce continues
» 17.05.2003 - 7.6 million Angolan children to be vaccinated

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