Burundi: HIV/Aids Seems Neglected in Burundi
[Iwacu] Jeanne Gapiya, Legal Representative of Burundian National Association in Support of People Living with HIV/AIDS-ANSS, says Burundians seem to ignore the existence of HIV/AIDS. She says that while the world celebrates on December 1st of each year the day dedicated to HIV/AIDS. The Health Ministry states it is much concerned about the lack of willingness of the population to do AIDS testing. (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - December 2, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Burundi: Cataract Patients to Receive Treatment Free of Charge
[Iwacu] Preoperative assessment of cataract patients to be operated by a team of specialised Chinese ophthalmologists has started this 23 November at Prince R égent Charles Hospital. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 24, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Tanzania: Assistance Urgently Needed for Refugees
Thousands fleeing the crises in neighboring Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo are in desperate need of assistance.Language
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Source: MSF News - November 16, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Elias Primoff Source Type: news
Tanzania: Assistance Urgently Needed for Refugees
Field newsTanzania: Assistance Urgently Needed for RefugeesNovember 16, 2016International assistance is urgently needed for refugees in Tanzania, where thousands of people are fleeing the crises in neighboring Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/M édecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today.Nearly a quarter million Burundian and Congolese refugees are now crammed into three overstretched camps while discussions on a fourth camp to host those still crossing the border continue to stall. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - November 16, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Elias Primoff Source Type: news
Burundi: Poor Participation of Women Journalists in Political Matters
[Iwacu] The Association of Women Journalists-AFJO has organized this 15 November a workshop to sensitize women in general not to be afraid to provide political information, push media officials to encourage female journalists to work on political issues and urge civil society leaders to advocate for gender mainstream in the media. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - November 16, 2016 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Burundi: Diabetes - Third Cause of Death in the Country
[Iwacu] The world celebrates the Diabetes Day on 14 November each year. While four millions of people die yearly due to diabetes complications, 60% of them are amputated. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 15, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Burundi: Cholera Worsens the Living Conditions of Kinogono Pit-Dwellers
[Iwacu] Most of the busy tradesmen and women who pass through Minago every day, a rural area in the province of Rumonge, south west of Burundi, have no clue that a community of their countrymen live in dreadful depravation beneath their feet. Out of sight of the road, at the bottom of a steep bank close to the shore of Lake Tanganyika, about 300 people live in a literal pit called Kinogono, without clean water, shelter or food. Now, the small community of pit-dwellers is battling a new outbreak of cholera, which h (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 2, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Burundi: Red Cross Burundi Committed to Improving Assistance to SGBV Victims
[Iwacu] Red Cross Burundi has officially launched, this 27 October, a project that will be mainly implemented in Bujumbura City and two other provinces namely Rumonge and Bujumbura. According to Alexis Manirakiza, spokesman of Red Cross Burundi, this project aims to improve the prevention of Sexual and Gender -Based Violence-SGBV and the care of the victims of the latter. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 31, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Burundi: Pre-Service Training - the Strategy to Fight Diabetes and Hypertension in Burundi
[Iwacu] The University of Burundi in collaboration with Cordaid has organized training sessions to equip new doctors with capacity to help in the treatment and prevention of diabetes and hypertension that have become a serious health threat in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 19, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Turkana County: The Face of Kenya's Health Worker Boom
Photo of Dr. Gilchrist Lokoel by Wycliffe Omanya for IntraHealth InternationalOctober 07, 2016It used to be where Kenyan health workers who stepped out of line were sent as punishment. But today, Turkana County has become the go-to place for health workers. Here ' s how it happened. Kenya ’s Turkana County is the largest in the country, roughly the size of Burundi, Rwanda, and Djibouti combined. It is also one of the poorest. Home to over 1.4 million people, including over 200,000 refugees from neighboring countries, Turkana County had for years some of Kenya’s worst human develo pment indicators.As recently as 2013,...
Source: IntraHealth International - October 7, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: intrahealth Source Type: news
7 Experts To Read On The Desperate Health Crisis In Syria
This article originally appeared on Syria Deeply. For weekly updates about the war in Syria, you can sign up to the Syria Deeply email list. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website. (Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post)
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Political parties and citizen political involvement in post-conflict Burundi: between democratic claims and authoritarian tendencies - Alfieri V.
The aim of this article is to understand the socio-political evolutions in post-war Burundi, through the analysis of the individuals' political mobilisation (both civilian and former combatants) and the dynamics of three party politics (Frodebu, Cndd-Fdd a... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - September 13, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Commentary Source Type: news
Politics in the shadow of the gun: revisiting the literature on 'Rebel-to-Party Transformations' through the case of Burundi - Wittig K.
This article provides a critical review of 'rebel-to-party transformation' scholarship. It shows how three flawed assumptions have underpinned much of the literature: (1) an ideal-typical differentiation between rebel group and political party as distinct ... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - August 20, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
