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UNAIDS, ASLM and Partners Launch Initiative to Improve HIV Diagnostics
Posted on :Saturday , 6th September 2014
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) (http://www.aslm.org) have joined with global partners to launch the Diagnostics Access Initiative which calls for improving laboratory capacity to ensure that all people living with HIV can be linked to effective, high-quality HIV treatment services.Partners in the initiative include . . .
Raising the Quality of Medical Education and Health Services in East Africa
Posted on :Wednesday , 6th August 2014
While Kenya has made tremendous progress recently by reducing child mortality and getting more children into school, new data published today suggest that raising the quality of public education and health services is essential to build on these gains. Otherwise, far too many children will attend school without learning enough and too many patients leave clinics without the right treatmen. . .
South Africa: Boost for XDR-TB Patients As Cheaper Pills Allowed
Posted on :Saturday , 6th September 2014
The Medicines Control Council (MCC) has granted humanitarian group Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) access to a cheaper drug to treat extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB).
The MCC's decision is the conclusion of a three-year battle for MSF and comes a few weeks after the MSF lodged a high court case against the MCC. This followed the regulatory body'. . .
Kenya launches health for all campaign
Posted on :Thursday , 31st July 2014
Kenya’s Cabinet Secretary for Health has Monday launched the universal health for all campaign in Nairobi and noted challenges to realize the vision.
According to James Macharia, it is a daunting task to achieve universal health coverage in developing countries such as Kenya due to financial constraints and the over-reliance on direct payments at the tim. . .
Africa: Test Could Ease Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Children
Posted on :Wednesday , 30th July 2014
A new genetic test for tuberculosis (TB) could dramatically improve the accuracy of diagnoses of infected children in developing countries, although a simple diagnostic kit could be some way off.
The research, published last month (1 May) in the New England Journal of Medicine, examined the DNA of more than 2,800 children admitted to hospitals in Kenya, Malawi and South Africa w. . .Please Select an Option
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