Skip Navigation

Health Indaba

World Health Organization Reports New Death from Cholera in Midlands

Tue, Jan 12, 2010

Cholera claimed more than 4,200 lives in Zimbabwe from late 2008 through mid-2009 as an epidemic raced out of control due to a widespread lack of clean water and the virtual collapse of the state health care system reports VOA.

US lifts HIV "entry ban"

Mon, Jan 04, 2010

Being infected with HIV will no longer be an "ineligibility" when foreign citizens apply for visas to travel to the United States, the US embassy in South Africa said.

Measles Claims 22-Lives In Zimbabwe

by Staff Reporter

Thu, Dec 31, 2009

According to Zimbabwe state media, there have been 22-deaths, mainly of children under five, due to a measles outbreak, which two weeks ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) had called deeply frustrating, coming right after the sponsoring of a vaccination programme in the African country.