Kenya: Experts Say Prepex Is Safe for Circumcision
Source: Africa Headlines
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-05-31 09:53:11 -0700 | health-news
The decision follows a three month study to assess the safety and acceptability of device-assisted adult male circumcision in routine clinical settings in Kenya. The study conducted by the Male Circumcision Consortium, National Aids/STI Control Programme and the Nyanza Reproductive...
Rwanda: The Untold Truth About Male Breast Cancer
Source: Africa Headlines
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-05-12 22:08:13 -0700 | health-news
All the three received the news with shock, as many have always linked breast cancer to only females. Although statistics about male breast cancer in Rwanda are scanty, the three examples are an indicator that men in Rwanda are equally...
Merck in the Mirror: Profits, Not People, Come First. Shame!
Source: Pharma Marketing Blog
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-05-10 07:19:56 -0700 | health-news
How can Merck look itself in the mirror?", asks Josh Bloom of the American Council for Science and Health (see here ). "This week, Merck, with some questionable help from the FDA, gave more ammunition to industry critics, who typically...
Africa: Big Pharma - Weighing Corporate Citizenship and the Bottom Line
Source: All Africa
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-04-29 05:51:37 -0700 | health-news
In the early 2000s, pharmaceutical companies were high on activists' hit lists, prompted by Big Pharma's ill-advised attempt to sue the South African government for patent infringement on HIV drugs; an attempt to deal with the country's epidemic by allowing...
Africa: U.S. State's Burns At Africa Health Forum
Source: All Africa
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-04-22 06:43:43 -0700 | health-news
Burns, Deputy Secretary Dean Acheson Auditorium Remarks at the Africa Health Forum Thank you...It is truly a pleasure to welcome all of you to the second day of the Africa Health Forum, and I greatly appreciate this opportunity to appear...
Rwanda: Govt to Double Tea Production
Source: Africa Headlines
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2013-04-21 22:44:28 -0700 | health-news
In a bid to boost tea production in the country, the Ministry of Agriculture unveiled plans to increase tea plantations by 18,000 hectares of land at the end of 2017. New tea plantations and factory construction approach (2012-2017)"...The minister expressed...
Why Wait Three Months to Advise People Whether to Stop Taking Injectable Depo Provera?
Posted by: Simon Collery
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2012-07-26 20:48:37 -0700 | health-news
A recent study indicates that use of injectable hormonal contraceptives, such as Depo Provera, may double transmission of HIV from HIV positive men to women receiving the injections and also from HIV positive women receiving the injections to HIV negative...
Can earphones damage our hearing?
Posted by: JosephNjata
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2012-07-25 13:00:37 -0700 | health-news
Christian Gakombe, 26, loves music with a passion. He never gets tired of listening to any type of music, but his favorites are R&B and Hip Hop. He always wants to play them at higher volumes. According to Christian, the...
Rwanda: UK Report Commends Country's Healthcare
Source: Africa Headlines
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2011-11-18 12:21:58 -0800 | travel-news
UK Report Commends Country's Healthcare 16 September 2011 Rwanda delivered tremendously in the health sector by doubling life expectancy of its citizens since the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, and ensuring that over 60 percent of its population are within...
Rwanda: Tea Farmers Undergo Food Safety Training
Source: Africa Headlines
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2011-10-30 14:53:18 -0700 | political-news
Tea Farmers Undergo Food Safety Training 30 August 2011 In a bid to enhance the quality of tea exports to international standards, tea farmers yesterday started a three-day training workshop in food safety management systems, which is part of ISO...
Rwanda: Over 200 Youth Trained in HIV Prevention
Source: Africa Headlines
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2011-10-23 19:03:51 -0700 | political-news
Over 200 Youth Trained in HIV Prevention 21 August 2011 210 students from various secondary schools across the country Friday completed a two-days training in HIV/Aids prevention. Organized by Amahoro Association-an umbrella organisation of youths living with HIV, the training...
Gates Foundation: $42 million in Grants to Reinvent the Toilet
Posted by: Dava Castillo
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2012-07-26 22:16:25 -0700 | health-news
August 11,2011-- Who invented the toilet? While Thomas Crapper is commonly given credit for inventing the first flushing toilet in the late 1800s, it actually was Sir John Harrington a British nobleman who first engineered and invented a valve that...
Rwanda: Minagri Wants Quality of Milk Improved
Source: Africa Headlines
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2011-09-11 20:29:35 -0700 | political-news
Minagri Wants Quality of Milk Improved Eric Kabeera 9 July 2011 The head of the livestock department at the ministry of Agriculture, Dr Theogene Rutagwenda has advised milk dealers to produce safe and quality milk to attract more consumers. Dr...
Rwanda: Modern Health Facility to Be Set Up in Remera
Source: Africa Headlines
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2011-09-08 14:58:39 -0700 | business-news
Modern Health Facility to Be Set Up in Remera Stevenson Mugisha 8 July 2011 Gasabo The Vice mayor of Gasabo District in charge of social affairs, Marie Louise Uwimana, has disclosed that a modern health centre will be constructed in...
Rwanda: Civil Society, Health Workers Sensitised on TB Prevention
Source: Africa Headlines
Kigali :: Rwanda | updated 2011-08-21 23:30:10 -0700 | political-news
Civil Society, Health Workers Sensitised on TB Prevention Edmund Kagire 20 June 2011 Kigali Over 80 members of civic groups for people living with HIV/Aids as well as community health workers from Gasabo District were, last week, sensitised on ways...
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