List/Grid Monthly Archives: July 2012
HIV survivors: alive, but facing poverty, loneliness and prejudice
SOURCE: The guardian By: Sarah Boseley in Washington 27 July 2012 In the 1980s and 1990s they were told they were going to die young, so they gave up their…
AIDS struggle can be won at last
SOURCE: Washington Post Michael Gerson Published: July 28, 2012 12:01 AM EST A memory from the AIDS crisis. It was 2005, the year that global AIDS deaths peaked at 2.3…
Uganda Ebola outbreak: patients flee hospital amid contagion fears
Source: The Guardian By:Clar Ni Chonghaile in Nairobi Sunday 29 July 2012 14.28 BST Terrified patients fled from a hospital in western Uganda as soon as news broke that a…
Beth Mugo says she is cancer free
Source: Capital FM Posted by CATHERINE KARONGO on July 29, 2012 NAIROBI, Kenya, July 29 – Public Health Minister Beth Mugo has on Sunday said advocacy and awareness creation would…
Kenya gets US support for Cancer Center
Source: Sunday Nation By LEONARD MUTINDA lmutinda@ke.nationmedia.com Posted Sunday, July 29 Kenya has secured technical support from the United States in its bid to establish a state of the art…
Grim statistics of unsafe abortions in Kenya
Source: Capital FM Posted by CATHERINE KARONGO on July 25, 2012 NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 25 – Young girls in Kenya continue to procure unsafe abortions with 16 percent of them…
New HIV prevention pill is no magic bullet
Source: Swazi Observer with James Hall 25 July, 2012 11:37:00 News that the Food and Drug Administration in the United States has given approval for the marketing and sale of…
Marketing Medicine
Source: The Star Wednesday, 25 July 2012 00:11 BY CHRIS HARRISON AW asks: What is the role of PR – public relations? Broadly does such a person act as a…
Kibaki assents law to boost cancer treatment, care
Source: Capital FM Posted by CATHERINE KARONGO on July 24, 2012 NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 24 – President Mwai Kibaki on Tuesday assented to five Bills key among them the Cancer…
Cancer in Kenya -The harsh reality
Source: Africa News Posted on Thursday 19 July 2012 – 09:32 Joyce J Wangui, AfricaNews reporter in Nairobi, Kenya enyans are slowly coming into grips with cancer, a deadly disease…
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