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International Nurses and Midwi...

International Nurses and Midwives Day Celebrated in Brikama

Pictures: Nurses marching towards Gambia College (1) & Scout Band leading the procession (2)
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
No fewer that 81 nurses and midwives from both the state and private health sectors in the Western Region last Saturday converged in their large...
WHO: noncommunicable diseases,...

WHO: noncommunicable diseases, world’s biggest killers

Thursday, May 22, 2008
The global burden of disease is shifting from infectious to noncommunicable, with chronic conditions such as stroke and heart related diseases now...
NIGER-NIGERIA: Porous border a...

NIGER-NIGERIA: Porous border aids human trafficking

IRIN NEWS http://irinnews.org
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Nigeria’s porous border with its northern neighbour Niger is being exploited by traffickers smuggling teenage girls to Europe where they will work as...
CONGO: Mobile Ebola labs on th...

CONGO: Mobile Ebola labs on the way

IRIN NEWS http://irinnews.org
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
The Republic of Congo will soon  be  much better placed to fight outbreaks of Ebola thanks to mobile laboratories that can detect the deadly virus...
CAMEROON: The aesthetics of wa...

CAMEROON: The aesthetics of water

IRIN NEWS http://irinnews.org
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Since the 1990s when the Cameroon government stopped providing free water in urban centres, most of the population of the commercial capital Douala...

HIV/AIDS global infection catapults to 33 million

Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Lamin Ceesay, president of Santa-Yalla society, has said that an estimated number of 33 million people are infected with HIV/AIDs, world wide. Mr....

Health post inaugurated at Santanto in Upper Fulladu

Monday, May 19, 2008
The Governor for CRR Alh. Ganyie Touray recently inaugurated Santanto health post.  The health post was funded by LIF and Janjangbureh area council...
Chad: Thirty years of helping ...

Chad: Thirty years of helping the victims of armed violence

Saturday, May 17, 2008
Today, 8 May, the delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Chad is celebrating not only World Red Cross and Red Crescent...
LIBERIA: Living with fistula

LIBERIA: Living with fistula

IRIN NEWS http://irinnews.org
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Of 600 rape victims recently interviewed by a Liberian non-governmental organisation, 90 percent of the women were found to be suffering from...
Gambian Children Trust in UK D...

Gambian Children Trust in UK Donates To RVTH

Picture: Gambian children Trust donating to RVTH
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Dr ABBAS KHADRA an outstanding Gambian Urologist Surgeon base in the United Kingdom last Friday onbehalf of the Gambian Children Trust a Charitable...
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