Lack of nurses 'killing Africans'
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A shortage of doctors and nurses means people are dying unnecessarily from HIV/Aids in Southern Africa.
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Uganda's health ministry says it will investigate the death of at least seven patients in a hospital strike.
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A Tripoli court has condemned to death five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor on charges of spreading HIV-AIDS among hundreds of children in a Libyan hospital.
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With almost 25 million Africans infected, 2.8 million new infections last year and 2.1 million deaths, the statistics are as grim as ever as Africa readies for World AIDS Day on December 1.
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Many African countries now have more medics working abroad than they do at home, research shows.
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The World Health Organisation has estimated that at least 70,000 people have died in the camps, most because of poor conditions. The number does not include those killed in militia and government attacks on villages and fleeing refugees.
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Nurse Carolyne Mujibi went to work in Kenya&#039;s largest hospital after her father died there &amp;#151; from nursing neglect, she believes. Too much work, too little pay and an assault by a frustrated patient chipped away at her desire to try to make a difference in Kenya.
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Doctors trying to treat HIV-infected  newborns in sub-Saharan Africa are being held back by  over-priced treatments, an absence of diagnostic tools, and a  general lack of focus from policymakers and international  organizations, Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Tuesday.
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Efforts to combat diseases such as malaria, Aids, tuberculosis and polio in the developing world are being thwarted by a critical shortage of four million health care workers, a new report has found.
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Millions of mothers, newborn babies and children die each year in Africa from preventable diseases despite promises of better healthcare by governments and donor countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
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More than a third of  patients in Africa die or stop taking HIV drugs within two years of starting, research shows.
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South Africa's government warns striking nurses they will be fired unless they return to work by Monday.
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More than a million babies die across Africa every year in their first month of life, a hidden tragedy neglected by donor countries and African governments.
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Casualty departments are still failing to treat people quickly enough, according to the latest figures.
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PARIS - France&#39;s health minister yesterday called for hospitals and police to work more closely after two hospital workers were found slain -- one decapitated and the other with her throat slit -- at a psychiatric facility.
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The death of a young Nigerian woman from bird flu has focused attention on the risk of such human infections in West Africa, where social habits and weak health and veterinary services make the region vulnerable, experts say.
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More than one million African babies do not survive their first month of life, the World Health Organisation says.