2015年7月22日 星期三

2015-07-23 South Africa Health


Independent Online
   
Feet up, Tutu told   
Independent Online
Cape Town - After a week of prayers and well wishes, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu returned home on Tuesday. Tutu spent a week in hospital for a persistent infection that was treated by intravenous antibiotics. His daughter, Reverend Canon Mpho, ...

You can't keep a good man down: Tutu recovering   Times LIVE
Archbishop Tutu home after week-long stay in hospital   Belfast Telegraph
Tutu family thanks doctors for 'incredible' work   Eyewitness News
Northwest Arkansas News   
Pulse.com.gh   
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ITWeb Africa
   
Wearables key to m-health initiatives   
IT-Online
Wearable devices are expected to represent the next wave of m-health solutions and will potentially act as the gateway to the connected health world. The number of sensors and wearable devices that will be shipped globally will increase drastically ...
Wearable Devices Market to Grow Exponentially by 2018   Satellite PR News (press release)
Can mHealth Revolutionize Evidence-Based Practice in Diabetes Care?   AJMC.com Managed Markets Network

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Bay Area Reporter
   
Paying girls to go to school does not prevent HIV: study   
Times LIVE
The Red ribbon is a symbol for solidarity with HIV-positive people and those living with AIDS. Image by: Niki K Aids Awareness Red Ribbon Lapel pins/ Gary van der Merwe/ Wikipedia. A new study has found that giving cash transfers to high school girls ...
The pros and cons of PrEP: trial volunteers recount their experience of the ...   aidsmap
AIDS confab highlights treatment and prevention   Bay Area Reporter
NIH: People will take PrEP properly if given the right tools   Fusion
EDGE Boston   
AIDSmeds.com HIV/AIDS Treatment News   
EIN News (press release)   
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Echonetdaily
   
South Africa initiation rites leave 32 boys dead   
Echonetdaily
Young boys apply white clay, a sign of purity, to a fellow initiate during a ritual marking their passage into manhood in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. As a result of botched circumcisions, performed during the initiation process, hundreds of initiates ...
32 boys dead in South Africa initiation rites   Sky News Australia
Dept pushes for initiation bill to be passed   Eyewitness News
32 boys dead in S.African initiation season   The Guardian Nigeria (satire) (press release) (blog)
The Rakyat Post   
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Sowetan Live (press release) (registration) (blog)
   
Nurse refuses to help woman in labour   
Independent Online
Durban - The KwaZulu-Natal Health Department suspended a midwifery nurse with immediate effect on Tuesday after she allegedly refused to attend to a woman who arrived at the clinic in labour. According to the department, the woman arrived at the ...

Nurse suspended for not treating pregnant patient   Sowetan Live (press release) (registration) (blog)

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BusinessDay
   
Ghana appeals for help to combat bird flu   
Ghana Business News
Poultry2. Ghana has appealed to the international community for support to combat the bird flu outbreak. Dr Hannah Bissiw, Deputy Minister of Food and Agriculture in-charge of livestock, said Ghana needs adequate resources and logistics to halt the ...
New requirements for NC farmers after bird flu outbreak   WNCT
Bird flu has little effect on poultry exhibits at fairs   KRCG
Ghana Takes Tough Measures To Contain West African Bird Flu   AFKInsider
HSToday   
Wisconsin Ag Connection   
Pulse.com.gh   
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Ebola Deeply
   
WFP brings critical food relief after Ebola outbreak   
The New Dawn Liberia
Following the re-emergence of Ebola cases in Liberia, the World Food Programme (WFP) and partners have distributed food for over 870 people at the epicentre of the outbreak in Margibi county and neighbouring Monsterrado county. WFP mobilized quickly ...

The Long Read - Unlocking Ebola's Secrets: Part One   AllAfrica.com
The Long Read: Unlocking Ebola's Secrets: Part One July 20th, 2015 · 2 min read   Ebola Deeply

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On-demand doctor apps on trial   
The Australian (blog)
IT was 8 o'clock on a weeknight and Brooklyn resident Sarah Sheehan was reeling from a painful earache. SHE wouldn't be able to see her doctor until the next morning, and that would require a 45-minute subway ride uptown. That's when Sheehan ...


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The Guardian Nigeria
   
The world's poorest countries could finally wipe out polio—as long as the ...   
Quartz
There have been no new cases in Nigeria for a year. (AP Photo/ Sunday Alamba). Share. Written by. Annalisa Merelli. July 22, 2015. On July 24, 2015, it will be exactly one year since the last case of poliomyelitis was detected in Nigeria. Once that's ...
Nigeria's Polio Eradication Campaign Helped Prevent Ebola Epidemic   Tolerance.ca
Cautious optimism as Nigeria marks one year without polio   The Guardian Nigeria (satire) (press release) (blog)
Nigeria Beats Polio   Big News Network.com

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New Zealand Doctor Online
   
Mission possible: Eradicating the world of HIV (but more money needed)   
New Zealand Doctor Online
Eradicating the world of the HIV virus may be within sight but the obstacles to achieving it are many, says a Kiwi doctor who last year returned from a Medicins Sans Frontieres mission to South Africa. Matthew Reid is a public health physician in ...
'Nuanced' sero-adaptive behaviours being used by Australian and American gay men   aidsmap
As HIV burden overwhelmingly shifts to 'middle-income' countries, access to ...   Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
MSF Warns Successful Global HIV Response Will Require Bigger Emphasis On Adherence   AllAfrica.com

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