Rwanda: Oklahoma Hospitals to Cooperate With Rwandan Health Ministry
: A team of 27 people from the City of Oklahoma – Mercy Hospitals – is in the country to assess possible cooperation between the Hospital and four leading Rwandan…
Philips attracting Africa with innovations addressing local needs
Press Release: Philips announces its fourth consecutive pan-African Cape Town to Cairo road show; visiting 18 cities across 17 countries between 14th May and 23rd September 2013. The road show…
Technology revolutionizes TB management in Kenya
The use of technology is revolutionizing the way Kenya manages tuberculosis (TB). Through a computer- and mobile-phone based programme called TIBU, health facilities are able to request TB drugs in…
GSK partners Vodafone in Africa vaccination project
GlaxoSmithKline, the global healthcare company, has formed a partnership with Vodafone to harness innovative mobile technology to help vaccinate more children against common infectious diseases in Africa. The proliferation of…
African Health Research Network Gets Cash Injection
By Munyaradzi Makoni: An African network on hereditary disease genomics has received a grant of US$38 million to undertake research on the genetics of infections.The Human Heredity and Health in…
Resolution Health has merged with the National Medical Aid Society
Press Release: Due to a recent merger with the National Independent Medical Aid Society (NIMAS), Resolution Health has boosted its beneficiary base, solvency ratio and product offering to become one…
Ondo State use Mobile phones to Improve Maternal and Child Health
By Ayo Bamgboye (AHIN) Two years after the initiation of Abiye Safe Motherhood Project and the Mother & Child Hospital initiatives aimed at improving maternal and child health in the…
Gauteng Health pays off suppliers
The Gauteng Health Department has met its deadline to pay off all suppliers by the end of June this year.The department faced tremendous pressure in the 2011/12 financial year to…
Africa:Rwanda Cited As Example of Health Financing
BY MARIE-BRIGITTE KABALIRA (Rwanda Focus) The importance of health as prerequisite for sustainable development was highlighted at a high-level Ministerial conference on health financing themed ‘Value for money, sustainability and…
Africa Health hailed as a catalyst for healthcare changes in Africa Informa Life Sciences Exhibitions
Press Release The Africa Health Exhibition and Congress 2012, which recently concluded at the Expo Centre in Nasrec, was hailed as a catalyst for much-needed healthcare changes in the region…