People now know that when a fever comes that they have to go to hospital to get the anti-malarial drug Lumefantrine and Artemether or “LA”; that pregnant women need two doses of a malaria prophylactic in their first trimester; and…
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Dr John Morris on health in Chad
‘IT CHANGES nothing.” I don’t respond, waiting for her to digest the pretty indigestible news I have just given her. In Am Timan, Chad, what she has just heard are four words that change everything: “Your test is positive.” It…
Dr Ian Stephenson on HIV susceptibility
[From Times >>>] How poverty and gender impact on people’s susceptibility to infection with HIV and their vulnerability regarding a family member with Aids is the theme of a free public talk by Dr Ian Stephenson tomorrow at 8pm in…
Five million lives saved
The Gavi Alliance (Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation) has been increasing access to immunisation in the world’s poorest countries for the past decade and has saved the lives of more than five million children, according to the World Health…
Focusing on life and the first 1,000 days
Compelling evidence shows that sustained under-nutrition during these critical 1,000 days leads to physical and mental stunting, which compromises the future of individuals, economies and nations. Ireland and the US agreed to host this forum because improving maternal and child…
From Scope magazine: Obstetric fistula
Eimear Vize writes: “Constantly in pain, leaking urine or faeces, bearing a heavy burden of sadness in discovering their child stillborn, outcasts because of their offensive smell; ashamed, these young women live on the periphery of their former existence, without…
New eye clinic to tackleblindness in Sierra Leone
John Fleming, chief executive of Sightsavers Ireland, explains that the clinic, which is attached to a general hospital in Kenema in the eastern part of the country, will mean that cataract surgery will now be provided for people who otherwise…
Turning health into wealth in Uganda
CO ARMAGH native Dr Ian Clarke could never be accused of thinking small when it comes to his healthcare business, which he started upon his arrival in Uganda in 1988 with his wife and three pre-teen children…. Rather than sitting…
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