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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gruesome killing of two hospital nurses, one beheaded and one stabbed to death, officials say. the southwestern town of Pau. The head of the decapitated woman was left perched on a television set.
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Health centres staffed by trained   midwives are the key to reducing maternal deaths in poor   countries where more than half a million women die each year   giving birth.
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A nun shot four times at the Somali hospital where she worked forgave her killers as she lay dying, colleagues said Monday in the wake of her slaying, which has focused attention on Islamic radicalism in the Horn of Africa.
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Geneva - Children with HIV and Aids are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable drugs and the high cost of medicines adapted to their needs, the humanitarian organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Tuesday.
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More than one million African babies do not survive their first month of life, the World Health Organisation says.
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Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres expresses shock at the killing of one of its local staff in Sudan's Darfur region.
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A study by South African medical journal warned Tuesday that the country needs more nurses as the number HIV/AIDS infections rises among health care workers.
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Watch your back in South Africa. They kill folks here. Murder them at a bewildering rate.
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LOS ANGELES When an AIDS patient at a Los Angeles hospital had a heart attack and died last week -- county officials say a nurse didn&#39;t notice.
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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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Up to half a million HIV-positive Africans die each year because health chiefs have failed to coordinate the fight against HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, the U.N. said Tuesday.
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In much of Africa, the traditionally low status of girls puts many of them in danger and protects attackers.
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Africa needs to nearly triple the number of its health workers if it is to reverse plummeting life expectancies and combat pandemics of disease.
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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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The Red Cross says not enough is done to locate those missing as a result of conflicts and other violence.
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The fewer nurses there are on duty in an intensive care unit, the more people on respirators get pneumonia, a new study has found.