Health system ready for Confeds Cup, 2010

[Gabi Khumalo] PRETORIA: South Africa's health system is more than ready to provide comprehensive medical services, including 24-hour emergency medical treatment and disaster management, during two of the world's biggest sporting events set to hit our shores. Read more >>

SA nurses ‘fine export material'

According to Eileen Brannigan, Netcare's group nursing director South African registered nurses are so well trained that they are completely exportable. Read more >>

SARCS marks World Red Cross Day in May

The South African Red Cross Society (SARCS) Western Cape and its seven branches in the Cape Metropole, Oak City, Greyton, Knysna, Bredasdorp, Hermanus, and Helderberg are rolling out their week long programs to mark World Red Cross Day which falls on Friday, 8 May 2009. Read more >>

Top SA marketer appointed Bizcommunity non-exec chair

South African marketing guru Chris Moerdyk has been appointed non-executive chairman of Bizcommunity.com, the country's leading online destination for marketing and media industry news. Moerdyk's appointment is with immediate effect. Read more >>

AstraZeneca sponsors African Institute for Digestive Diseases

AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals has donated R150 000 to the African Institute of Digestive Diseases (AIDD) headed by Prof Reidwaan Ally. The sponsorship was presented by James Ward-Lilley, regional vice president: AstraZeneca Central, Eastern Europe, Middle East Africa (CEEMEA), during a recent visit to the continent. Read more >>

Global: No A (H1N1) cases - reality or poor lab facilities?

DAKAR: No Influenza A (H1N1) cases have yet been confirmed in Africa, causing medical experts to question whether this is due to good luck or the continent's lack of fully-equipped influenza testing facilities. Read more >>

ROC: 130 cholera cases reported in the Pool region

BRAZZAVILLE: At least 130 cases of cholera have been reported in the southern Pool region in the Republic of Congo since April 2009. A case of yellow fever, the first in 43 years, has also been reported in the western Cuvette region, along the border with Gabon, according to health officials. Read more >>

Swine flu holds no threat for SA

[Gabi Khumalo] MIDRAND: Through government's National Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Plan, the Department of Health is certain that the swine flu will not be a threat for South Africa. Read more >>

Uganda: Hepatitis E still spreading in Kitgum

KITGUM: At least 53 new cases of Hepatitis E have been recorded among internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the northern district of Kitgum at the start of the current rainy season, officials said. Read more >>

SADC on high alert following outbreak of swine flu

HARARE: Health ministers of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) are advising travellers in the region to postpone journeys to areas affected by swine flu, Influenza A (H1N1), as a precautionary measure. Read more >>

Egypt: Viral time bomb set to explode

[Cam McGrath] CAIRO: It is a health crisis of alarming proportions. Up to nine million Egyptians have been exposed to hepatitis C, and tens of thousands will die each year unless they receive a liver transplant. Read more >>

WHO confirms 1,085 swine flu cases worldwide

GENEVA: A total of 21 countries have officially reported 1,085 lab-confirmed human infection cases of the A/H1N1 flu virus to the World Health Organisation (WHO). Read more >>

West Africa: Regional bodies, governments gear up H1N1 influenza response

DAKAR: The World Health Organisation's (WHO) Africa regional office has created a crisis management team to monitor the spread of influenza A/H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, as WHO raised the global influenza pandemic alert level to phase 5 - just short of a full pandemic. Read more >>

Obese men have less hope of marriage

AMSTERDAM: Men who were grossly overweight at the age of 18 had nearly 50% less chance of being married by their 30s and 40s, an international conference on obesity heard in Amsterdam on Thursday, 7 May, 2009. Read more >>

Chad: Adapting emergency food aid to combat malnutrition

N'DJAMENA: While food aid is vital for tackling malnutrition, it cannot be the sole response when the condition is chronic as in Chad's western Kanem region, where aid workers have developed a programme to meet both urgent needs and long-term food insecurity. Read more >>

Sudan: NGO expulsions leave significant healthcare gaps in Darfur

NAIROBI: The expulsion of 13 international NGOs (INGOs) operating in the western Sudan region of Darfur has left gaps in health coverage, according to the UN World Health Organisation (WHO) as 12 of them provided health and nutrition services to about 1.1 million people. Read more >>

Medi-Clinic account awarded to Jupiter Cape Town - The Jupiter Drawing Room

The Jupiter Drawing Room Cape Town has been appointed as the advertising agency for the highly respected Medi-Clinic brand with immediate effect. Read more >>