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22 July 2011
By Kerry Grens ~ NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Ugandan HIV and AIDS patients receiving antiretroviral “cocktail” therapy can expect to live nearly as long as their compatriots who don’t have HIV, a new study finds. “They can have almost a normal life expectancy, and live approximately two thirds as long as if they had not [...]
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27 December 2009
ELKO — When pediatric dentist Thomas Sorensen packs for his trip to Africa in January, he will be taking dental supplies, local anesthesia, surgical gloves and masks. “Most of my luggage will be equipment and supplies, and we will ship a lot of stuff over,” he said. Sorensen will be making his third trip to [...]
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02 December 2009
IRIN | As donors tighten their belts in the global recession, health experts in Uganda worry that the national antiretroviral (ARV) programme, which is almost entirely dependent on foreign aid, will be unable to keep providing the life-prolonging drugs. Uganda is only able to provide ARVs to 57 percent of the 240,000 people who require [...]
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29 October 2009
The U.S. Embassy in Uganda announced a grant of $246 million in new aid for improving the Uganda’s agricultural and health systems, Reuters reports. “More than $170 million will be spent on health and education to combat the HIV/AIDS pandemic, fight tuberculosis, eradicate malaria, improve maternal and child health and increase access to family planning [...]
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30 August 2009
TWVS is a new home visiting service that provides visiting nurses, physical, occupational and speech therapists that will take care of your relatives in the comfort of their home in Uganda with direct physician supervision. Your relatives will have regularly scheduled visits from our nurses, checking their vital signs, performance status, reconcile their medications and [...]
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24 June 2009
NAIROBI, (IRIN) | About 40 percent of HIV-positive Ugandan patients are already ill or displaying symptoms of AIDS when they are diagnosed, a new study in the latest issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes http://journals.lww.com/jaids/Abstract/publishahead/Late_Disease_Stage_at_Presentation_to_an_HIV.99240.aspx has found. The study, conducted by western Uganda’s Mbarara University Teaching Hospital, noted that more than one-third [...]
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08 May 2009
At Brookline Community Acupuncture, treatments are provided in a group setting and offered on a sliding scale. Therefore, you can come more frequently and thus optimize the effects of the treatments. Everyone's needs and financial situation are different. Your practitioner will suggest how often she/he feels you need to receive a treatment, but the decision is yours. Although we have a suggested fee scale based on income, you pay what you feel you can afford.
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30 April 2009
What is swine influenza? Swine influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by a type of influenza virus. Outbreaks of swine flu happen regularly in pigs. People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can and do happen. Most commonly, human cases of swine flu happen in people who are [...]
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30 March 2009
Mugira, AfricaNews reporter in Kampala, Uganda | Uganda’s Director General of health services, Sam Zaramba said the prevailing T.B drug shortage will end soon. “The Ministry of Health and our counterparts in Finance met and resolved to provide for $1.4 billion to stock the T.B drugs in health units after two week that drug shortage [...]
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18 January 2009
afrol News, 16 January – The discovery of the new Malaria treatment with no side effects is set to be a new dawn for Sub Saharan African countries grappling with malaria every year. Malaria has proven to be a major cause of death in Africa, with an estimated 1 million people dying worldwide every year, [...]
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