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Khartoum: Said the latest statistics issued by the traffic management in Sudan, said incidents roads rose to more than 18 thousand incidents were reported during the period from January until late October. Sources confirmed that the number of deaths amounted...

ALGIERS, (Xinhua) -- A total of 50 new cases of A/H1N1 influenza, among which were three deaths, were confirmed on Thursday by the Algerian Health Ministry, bringing the number of confirmed cases of the epidemic in the country to 274....

Nigeria— The chief physician for Nigeria's president says the leader is undergoing treatment for a heart condition at a hospital in Saudi Arabia. Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua was flown to Saudi Arabia and admitted to a hospital in the western...

HIV Infections Decline Slowly in Sub-Saharan Region 25 November 2009 The rate of new HIV infections has slowly declined in sub-Saharan Africa, but the region remains the area of the world most heavily hit by the epidemic and it accounts...

For 23 years its doctors have believed in the coma. But, tells the patient belgian, it was in fact awake, but unable to communicate because imprisoned in a body totally paralyzed. Nurses move a sick bedridden in a hospital in...

A million Kenyans expected to know their HIV status during campaign More than one million Kenyans are expected to get tested for HIV during a national campaign launched on Monday. The drive is expected to target more than 77 per...

The world’s first multi-country yellow fever vaccination campaign began on 23 November, with 12 million people targeted across Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The push comes as the killer mosquito-borne disease is resurging in some sub-Saharan African countries and vaccine...

swine flu is striking and spreading around the world what should we do? we must be careful if any thing appears on a person that he has swine flu please go to the doctor or else the world might be...