Burundi: Malaria Not Yet Declared As Epidemic, Says Public Health Minister
[Iwacu] "From 2015 to 2016, the number of people suffering from malaria has increased in Burundi. However, the number of sick people has decreased of 20% at the beginning of 2017", says Josiane Nijimbere, Burundi Public Health Minister, during the plenary session in the National Assembly, this 23 February. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - February 24, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Burundi: Burundi Has Taken Measures to Contain Bird Flu
[Iwacu] This Monday, 20 February 2017, D éo Guide Rurema, Burundi Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, has announced a number of measures taken to contain bird flu in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 22, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Burundi: Rights Groups Fear IMF Withdrawal of Subventions to Ministry of Health
[Iwacu] Two local NGOs warn of irregular activities within the Ministry of Public Health that might cause the government to lose from the International Monetary Fund(IMF) an estimated amount of $72.300.822 primarily intended for the fight against malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 21, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Tanzania: Voices from Nduta and Nyarugusu Refugee Camps
Voice from the FieldTanzania: Voices from Nduta and Nyarugusu Refugee CampsFebruary 17, 2017More than 290,000 people live in refugee camps in Tanzania's northwestern Kigoma District. The vast majority came from neighboring Burundi. More people cross the border every day —according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees nearly 19,000 Burundians arrived in January 2017. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - February 17, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Elias Primoff Source Type: news
Burundi: Famine Continues Taking People's Lives in Bubanza, Residents Say
[Iwacu] Residents of some localities of Gihanga district claim people continue dying from famine. Humanitarian actors have not so far given sufficient help since the first cases of death were reported in January. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 9, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Burundi: Epileptic People Discriminated in Burundi
[Iwacu] Epileptics are treated abominably and unfairly in the Burundian society. On the occasion of the International Epilepsy Day, the Ministry of Public Health says it organizes sensitization campaigns to break down the prejudices. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 9, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Burundi: Shortage of Some Medicines in Bujumbura Pharmacies
[Iwacu] In various pharmacies, Bujumbura inhabitants find it hard to get some medicines specially those made in European laboratories. Pharmacists explain that this shortage of medicines is linked to the lack of foreign currency in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 3, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Burundi: Four People Died From Hunger in Bubanza Province
[Iwacu] The fields are dry due to drought caused by the shortage of rain in Bubanza western province of Burundi. Four people have already died since the past two weeks. Serious measures will be taken if the situation persists, government say. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 19, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Burundi: Combating Cholera in Burundi - Isn't Prevention Better Than Control?
[Iwacu] Efforts against cholera in Burundi are reactive rather than preventive which makes the eradication of the epidemic impossible. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 11, 2017 Category: African Health Source Type: news
They Never Told Her That Girls Could Become Scientists
Now she knows they can. Mireille Kamariza, who grew up in Burundi, is a graduate student at Stanford, working on a promising new test to detect the TB bacteria.(Image credit: Fred Tomlin/Courtesy of Mireille Kamariza) (Source: NPR Health and Science)
Source: NPR Health and Science - January 7, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Esther Landhuis Source Type: news
Burundi: SYNAPA Union Postpones Strike
[Iwacu] Members of SYNAPA Union at Kamenge Neuropsychiatric Center-CNPK section have decided to extend the strike notice by three weeks. They say the health ministry has promised to find an immediate solution to their problems in a meeting held with the union on 16 December. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 28, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Burundi: Malaria Spins Out of Control in Burundi
[Iwacu] The Minister of Public Health, Josiane Nijimbere, has launched a campaign of distributing insecticide-treated mosquito-nets (ITN) to special groups like boarding schools, orphanages, military and police camps, refugee camps and the like. (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - December 15, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Burundi: Health Ministry Sensitizes Batwa Community to Family Planning
[Iwacu] In a campaign organized on 8 December in Gitega central Province, Dr. Josiane Nijimbere, Minister of Public Health, calls on the Batwa community to adhere to family planning. According to a 2014 study conducted by the Union for the Promotion of Batwa (UNIPROBA) on social and political development of the Batwa community, one family of Batwa (husband and wife) gives birth to an average of six children. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - December 14, 2016 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Burundi: UNAIDS National Plan for 2016-2021
[Iwacu] Journalists pledge to sensitize people to AIDS testing (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - December 13, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
