Botswana: Mogae Continues the Legacy (Editorial)

Former president Festus Mogae might be out of the office but he is continuing his legacy in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Last week, Mogae hosted a high profile anti-AIDS meeting for the Champions of an AIDS-Free Generation in Gaborone.

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President Bush and President Kufuor of Ghana Participate in Arrival Ceremony

Welcoming the President of the Republic of Ghana

Read the transcript of the arrival ceremony from the White House Web site >>

Africa: Q&A - Unravelling the Knots of Tied Aid (Interview)

The forum on aid effectiveness in Accra has delivered "profound" decisions to change the way aid is structured, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria told IPS in an interview.

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Experts say TB drug development is at critical stage, needs partnerships and more funds

Consortiums and high level of partnerships are key to finding new drugs and diagnostic tools needed in TB and so are continuous funding, experts at a recent TB symposium in Maputo, Mozambique have said. The experts further agreed that there is also increasing partnership between clinical part of TB and research.

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Botswana: Itekanele, Country's First Indigenous Medical Aid, Defies the Odds

As a new medical aid service provider, doubts were cast over the capacity of Itekanele Health Scheme, given the hoarding of business by established companies in the industry. But after a positive takeoff, Itekanele's Managing Director Solly Reikeletseng radiates confidence and says they will go the whole hog and have set themselves an ambitious target of one million members. Mmegi Correspondent MQONDISI DUBE spoke with him recently.

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Right to Health should be pursuaded globally

Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan Sunday underlined the need of pursuing right to health in global perspective and said developing and underdeveloped countries should get the benefit of international research and development on health care.

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WHO Weekly epidemiological record: Global programme to eliminate lymphatic filariasis

Progress report on mass drug administration in 2007

Download a PDF of the full report from the WHO Web site >>

Thailand tops list of improving health care

Thailand has topped a list of developing countries which have witnessed substantial improvements in primary health care (PHC). A study published in the Lancet today looked at the average annual reduction in child mortality between 1990 and 2006 in the countries to gauge the improvements.

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South Africa: Milestone Vaccine Rollout to Fight Infant Mortality

The two vaccines, pneumococcus conjugate and rotavirus, will now form part of the country's wider immunization programme and are aimed at reducing the child mortality rate among infants under five years-old in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

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Global Health Advocate Stresses Unity

Maurice I. Middleberg, vice president of the Global Health Council (GHC), said at a lecture yesterday that a combination of unity and advocacy is the best way to legitimately face difficult health problems in an increasingly complex world.

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