2007

April 2007

• 30-04 : 45% of Mali's AIDS patients get ARVs
• 27-04 : Global Fund targets US$8 billion per year
• 24-04 : South Africa: Are you related to Mandela?
• 22-04 : IDB allots $20m in anti-malaria aid to member states
• 20-04 : Cost of ARVs down 25% in 2006, says WHO official
• 19-04 : Kenya on course to roll back malaria - official
• 13-04 : Kenya partners with US, Global Fund to fight malaria
• 11-04 : Brazil to help Cameroon combat malaria
• 10-04 : Ethiopia launches youth reproductive health strategy
• 08-04 : Kenya: new health rules a challenge to implement - more costly to ignore
• 07-04 : 4th international conference on HIV/AIDS for Nairobi
• 06-04 : World Health Day - South Africa: an outbreak kept from breaking out
• 06-04 : Lassa fever outbreak hits Liberia
• 05-04 : 4% of AIDS-infected persons in Democratic republic of Congo receive ARVs
 

March 2007

• 27-03 : WHO certifies 12 countries guinea worm free
• 27-03 : New Global Fund boss urges Africa to up health budget
• 27-03 : 250 million Africans threatened by meningitis - study
• 25-03 : Respiratory infections main cause of child deaths in Rwanda
• 24-03 : UN moves to combat meningitis in West Africa
• 23-03 : 60% of Cameroonians lack access to safe drinking water
• 19-03 : Africa: Fighting meningitis a race against time
• 19-03 : ACP, EU agree to use EPAs as anti-poverty tool
• 18-03 : UNAIDS, WHO challenge Gambia on AIDS cure
• 15-03 : Facing AIDS, malaria amidst brain drain
• 15-03 : South Africa: Yvonne Chaka Chaka launches new anti-malaria foundation
• 15-03 : NGO calls for urgent control of meningitis in Burkina Faso 
• 12-03 : Nigeria: US university to introduce low-cost AIDS test to Africa
• 11-03 : WHO Partners Forum agrees healthcare scale up in Africa
• 11-03 : Mali: Beating malaria achievable this year gov't says
• 11-03 : Burkina Faso: Finding the words to talk about HIV
• 11-03 : Ethiopia secures $30 million IDA grant to tackle HIV/AIDS
• 10-03 : Malaria threat increases in Liberia
• 10-03 : Kenyan Minister urges strong partner support for healthcare in Africa
• 10-03 : UNICEF urges reduction of high maternal mortality in Somalia
• 06-03 : Making Policies for AIDS in the Workplace, Commonplace
• 05-03 : [Submitted letter to editor] "Circumcision is likely to increase the spread of HIV"
• 02-03 : Africa to get new anti-malaria drug in April
• 28-02 : AIDS-ravaged Malawi debates male circumcision
• 26-02 : People with AIDS to pray for Manto
• 20-02 : Cleric urges accurate information to fight AIDS in Africa
• 20-02 : Liberia announces drop in malaria deaths
• 12-02 : Female Genital Mutilation down 50% in Niger
• 12-02 : Jimmy Carter proposes health, education alliance against diseases
• 11-02 : Ugandan study show male circumcision as potential tool in HIV/AIDS fight
• 08-02 : Red Cross increases funds for flood victims in southern Africa
• 08-02 : Carter reaffirms support for Ghana guinea worm eradication
• 08-02 : Minister demands equal access in Mozambican hospitals
• 08-02 : Gambia: More on Jammeh's controversial HIV/AIDS cure claim
• 08-02 : Ugandan women enrol for anti HIV/AIDS gel trials
• 05-02 : Uganda's boxing body introduces pre-tournament HIV, Hepatitis B testing
• 05-02 : Kadhafi Project to undertake polio immunization campaign in Benin
• 04-02 : China boosts Liberia's efforts to combat malaria
• 29-01 : Polio immunisation suffers setback in Nigeria
• 23-01 : Japan, Mozambique sign cooperation agreement malaria
• 19-01 : Gambian leader Jammeh, claims cure for HIV/AIDS, asthma
• 17-01 : Mauritius to build diabetes, heart institute
• 12-01 : Malaria remains number one killer in Niger
• 12-01 : Opposition mounts as Malawi plans to re-introduce DDT in malaria fight
2006
 
• 01-12 : World AIDS Day - Burkina Faso: The high cost of not having free ARVs
• 20-11 : Malawi increases number of people on free Aids drugs
• 17-11 : Students in Swaziland ignore safer sex practices
• 14-11 : South Africa: Government AIDS programme on course but people still dying
• 14-11 : South Africa : Medical brain drain: solidarity with developing nations - at a cost
• 08-11 : Nigeria: "People always see us as health hazards"
• 06-11 : Masai healers fill public health services void
• 29-10 : South Africa: Prospect of unity in the fight against AIDS