It’s a Small World: Measles Anywhere is Measles Everywhere
Children visited by Red Cross volunteers during a social mobilization effort for measles in Benin. Photo: American Red Cross/Niki Clark
It’s almost become a cliché in the headlines. But in many ways, it’s true. It is a small world. While news of the measles outbreak at California’s Disneyland and information about vaccinations are making headlines this week, the American Red Cross has been focused on the virus—and its elimination—for nearly a decade and a half. Because measles anywhere means measles everywhere.
Even though measles was eliminated from the United States in 2000, outbreaks can occur when unvaccina...
Source: Red Cross Chat - January 23, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Niki McMillan Tags: International measles measles and rubella initiative vaccination Source Type: news
Nigeria: Esan Youth Flay Oshiomhole Over Plan to Relocate Teaching Hospital
[Independent (Lagos)]Benin -Esan Youth Association (EYA) has condemned what it tagged the "devilish plan of the Oshiomhole administration to defraud the over-taxed, harassed and conquered people of Edo State". (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 19, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Liberia: Benin Pledge to Send Medical Practitioners to Liberia to Assist in Ebola Fight
[LINA]MONROVIA January 8 (LINA)-The President of Benin Thomas Yayi Boni, has said that Benin will "in a few weeks time" send medical practitioners to assist Liberia in fighting the Ebola virus. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 9, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Liberia: President Sirleaf Hails Issoufou and Boni for Visit
[LINA]President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says the visit of the Presidents of Benin and Niger has further deepened the support and feeling of solidarity that the two countries have for Liberia. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 9, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Liberia: Niger, Benin Leaders Visit Liberia
[Inquirer]In solidarity with the government and people of Liberia, the President of the Republic of Niger and the President of the Republic of Benin yesterday paid a visit to the country as part of both countries' contribution to the fight against the deadly Ebola virus in Liberia. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 8, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: After 18 Years of Barrenness, Woman Gives Birth to Quadruplets
[Daily Trust]Benin/Zaria/Abuja -Last Saturday, Mrs. Clara Dominique was delivered of a set of quadruplets at a Benin, Edo State hospital after 18 years of barrenness. The 44-year-old woman gave birth to the babies at Graceland Medical, 3 females and a male. "I am very excited because my husband and I have been together until this time the Almighty has spared to witness. My husband has been encouraging me and telling me that the Almighty will hear and answer all our prayers but he has never thought of separating from me. We got married in (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 1, 2014 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
West Africa: Ebola Cases 'No Longer Rising in Liberia, Guinea'
[UN News]The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today that the number of Ebola cases is "no longer increasing nationally in Guinea and Liberia, but is still increasing in Sierra Leone", and that preparedness teams have been sent this week to Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia and Senegal. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 20, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ebola cases no longer rising in Guinea, Liberia, UN health agency reports
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) reported today that the number of Ebola cases is “no longer increasing nationally in Guinea and Liberia, but is still increasing in Sierra Leone”, and that preparedness teams have been sent this week to Benin, Burkina Faso, Gambia and Senegal. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - November 19, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
Africa: Deputy Health Minister Attends WHO Regional Committee 64th Session On the MDGs for Africa Region in Benin
[Sierra Leone Government]The Deputy Minister of Health and Sanitation, Madam Madina Rahman has expressed government's commitment to construct more Ebola holding and treatment centers, and the strengthening of the country's Health care system. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 14, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: Winner of the 2014 Gates Vaccine Innovation Award
[Gates Foundation]Paris -The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced that Agence de Médecine Préventive (AMP) has received the third annual Gates Vaccine Innovation Award in recognition of EPIVAC, an on-the-job training program for district medical officers to improve immunization program performance in 11 Francophone African countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, C&o (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 10, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Benin: Africare Receives Benin Presidential Medal of Honor for Malaria Prevention Work
[Africare]Children across the West African nation of Benin sleep safer at night and live healthier because a modest pilot program to decrease malaria-related deaths directed by Africare, a non-profit organization committed to improving the lives of people in Africa, delivered such outstanding results it was rapidly expanded to span the entire country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 3, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Medical Expert Advocates Washing of Clothes Before Use
[Daily Independent]Benin -As Nigerians continue to express fears over the deadly Ebola virus, a medical practitioner in Benin City, Dr. Folus Ejele, has stressed the need for those who patronise sellers of second hand clothes popularly known as "okrika" to ensure they are thoroughly washed before they wear them. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 22, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Liberia: Ebola Ooutbreak Delays Mercy Ships Sail to Africa
[Mercy Ships]Tenerife, Canary Islands -Collateral hardship from the Ebola epidemic now includes a delay for Mercy Ships, which operates the world's largest civilian hospital ship in ports on the West Coast of Africa. Already with one canceled deployment to Guinea, where Ebola first broke out last December, the Mercy Ship now waits in the water with crew and staff, pending an end-of-August decision on field service in Benin. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 18, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Ebola - in Benin, Consumers Dump Bush Meat
[Daily Independent]Getting someone to give direction to the part of New Benin Market where Bush meat is sold is now a herculean task. A young girl hawking oranges within the vicinity of the market who was accosted by Saturday Independent for direction to where the sellers of bush meat in the market could be located did not answer. Rather, she gave the reporter a very cold, long stare and walked away so fast that she was almost knocked down by a car as she was crossing the road. The bowl of oranges she carried on her head fel (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 18, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: States Devise Strategies to Contain Ebola Virus
[Daily Trust]Katsina, Dutse, Ilorin, Benin, Yenagoa, Kaduna, Minna and Lokoja -State governments across the country have devised various measures to contain spread of the Ebola virus which has already killed one of the six Nigerians who contracted the disease from a Liberian man. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - August 8, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
