Ghana
Witchcraft meets modern medicine in Ghana
afrol News, 24 March - More than one third of Ghana's population believe that AIDS is caused by witchcraft. But large-scale intervention programmes for improving health standards aree starting to convince people to trust medical explanations of the disease, researchers find.
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World
Bananas against AIDS?
afrol News, 15 March - Scientists have found a special protein in the banana that could help women prevent being infected by HIV during sexual intercourse. They hope this may open the door to new and cheaper treatments to prevent the spread of AIDS.
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World | Africa
Study reveals sub-standard malaria medicines in Africa
afrol News, 8 February - The first results from a large-scale study of key antimalarial medicines in ten Sub-Saharan African countries have revealed that a high percentage of medicines circulating on national markets are of substandard quality and thus may contribute to the growth of drug-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum, the most virulent form of malaria.
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Africa | World
Scientific database to help fight Malaria
afrol News, 22 January - The envoy leading United Nations efforts against malaria has praised one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies for its plan to open up its database to scientists in hopes of promoting research to help combat the deadly disease.
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Killer malaria found in gorillas
afrol News, 19 January - Researchers have found the parasite which causes malignant malaria in humans from the faeces of the wild gorillas in Cameroon and blood from a captive gorilla in Gabon.
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Africa | World
FAO declares victory over rinderpest
afrol News, 30 November - The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) jointly with the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) and other partners will officially declare one of the most devastating animal diseases known to man, rinderpest, as eradicated.
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Egypt
Heart disease discovered in ancient Egyptian mummies
afrol News, 18 November - A cardiologist at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute and his research team from Cairo, Milwaukee, and Mission Viejo, Calif., have detected the hardening of the arteries in 3,500-year-old Egyptian mummies, indicating that heart disease is not just a condition found in modern humans.
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» 22.08.2008 - The truth about Avian Influenza
» 28.07.2008 - First HIV surveillance programme in Somaliland
» 23.07.2008 - Kenya study proves malaria drugs side effects
» 30.06.2008 - MDR-TB rapid tests available for poor countries
» 23.06.2008 - Lead intoxication causes Senegal deaths
» 10.12.2007 - Book exposes pregnancy risks
» 23.10.2007 - South African scientists will rise to Gates' challenge
» 03.09.2007 - Row over South African minister’s health turns sour
» 09.06.2007 - Cheap meningitis vaccine developed in West Africa
» 02.04.2007 - Mosquitoes with 'selfish genes' may help fight malaria
» 16.03.2007 - "Alarming" HIV rise in young South African women
» 09.03.2007 - Uganda decries lack of research on sleeping sickness
» 26.02.2007 - FGM, circumcision "likely to spread HIV"
» 26.01.2007 - Main malaria carriers identified in Cameroon
» 15.01.2007 - More African nations use DDT to cut malaria death toll
» 08.01.2007 - Kenya Rift Valley Fever outbreak prompts research
» 08.12.2006 - Ebola outbreak killed 5000 gorillas
» 24.11.2006 - Drug-resistant typhoid makes leap from Asia to Africa
» 17.11.2006 - Scientists predict next Ebola outbreak
» 12.09.2006 - Mauritania's Prussian past revealed: A desert pharmacy
» 08.09.2006 - SA finds new, worryingly virulent strain of TB
» 07.09.2006 - Mortality for middle-aged South Africans doubled
» 02.06.2006 - "Female genital mutilation increases babies' mortality"
» 24.05.2006 - Mutated Chikungunya virus caused Indian Ocean epidemic
» 03.04.2006 - Researchers study Cape Verdeans' genetic structure
» 27.02.2006 - Climate forecasts help predict African malaria epidemics
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» 23.02.2005 - Scientists link Ebola to animal carcasses
» 20.12.2004 - Botswana HIV rate at 17, not 40 percent
» 15.10.2004 - Possible malaria vaccine presented in Mozambique
» 16.08.2004 - Bushmeat warning after new Cameroon virus
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» 20.02.2004 - Climate extremes steer malaria outbreaks in African Highlands
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» 16.01.2004 - Ebola also causes epidemics in ape populations
» 14.01.2004 - Experimental Mozambican mass cholera vaccination begins
» 23.12.2003 - European satellite to assist solving the Ebola enigma
» 18.11.2003 - Human testing of Ebola vaccine has begun
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