Gambia: Ebunjan Theatre Hosts Maiden Schools' Competition On Comprehensive Health Education
[The Point] The maiden edition of the Comprehensive Health Education Interschool Drama/Poetry Competition was on Friday 24 June 2022 held at the Ebujan Theatre, Kanifing. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 28, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: 'Psychiatric Hospital Reports Increase in Admission of Drug Psychosis Cases'
[The Point] On the occasion of commemoration of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking, Alh. Bakary Gassama, director general of the Drug Law Enforcement Agency Gambia (DLEAG) has revealed that the country's Psychiatric hospital reported a significant increase in the admission and treatment of drug induced psychosis cases. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 28, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Psychiatric Hospital Reports Increase in Admission, Treatment of Drug Induced Psychosis Cases
[Foroyaa] The Minister of Interior, Seyaka Sonko, has said that the country's only psychiatric hospital has reported a significant increase in the admission and treatment of drug-induced psychosis cases. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 28, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Former Football Star Bass Promotes Good Kidney Health
[RFI] For one aspiring Gambian football player, his dreams of playing in Europe were seemingly within reach. After returning home from the African Nations Championship (CHAN) in 2017, player John Bass thought his next steps would be in Europe after his talent landed him on the senior national team. But that was before he was diagnosed with kidney failure. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 27, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: MoH Validates National Medicines Policy
[The Point] The National Pharmaceutical Services at the Ministry of Health with support from partners on Tuesday validated the National Medicine Policy at a ceremony held at the Kairaba Beach Hotel. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 24, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Let's Promote Breastfeeding!
[The Point] Breastfeeding is crucial for the survival, nutrition and development of infants and young children and the health of mothers. (Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth)
Source: AllAfrica News: Pregnancy and Childbirth - June 24, 2022 Category: OBGYN Source Type: news
Gambia: 'We Want to Enter Quality Data, Right Beneficiary Households'
[The Point] Programme manager at the National Nutrition Agency (NaNA) and Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM) Focal Person for the Nafa Program has disclosed that the programme goal is to ensure that they enter data that represents the right beneficiaries for the Nafa Program as they starts the beneficiary enrolment. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 24, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Pipeline Mosque Foundation Presents 700 Bed Sheets to 7 Hospitals in Gambia
[The Point] In what has now become an annual affair, the Pipeline Mosque Foundation last Wednesday presented an assortment of 700 new bed sheets to the eight major hospitals in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 22, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Study Recommends Establishment Mortality Surveillance System
[The Point] The joint study conducted by the Directorate of Health Research under the Ministry of Health in collaboration with UK Public Health and Medical Research Council and its partner has strongly recommended the establishment of an electronic Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) as well as mortality surveillance system in The Gambia. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 16, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: GRCS Launches D21 Million EU COVID-19 Cash Grant Project
[The Point] The Gambia Red Cross Society (GRCS) on Thursday 9th June 2022 launched a 21 million dalasis European Union cash grant project at a ceremony held at GRCS headquarters. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 14, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: Pre-Departure Testing Requirements for Air Travelers to the U.S. Lifted Effective June 12, 2022
[The Point] The CDC order from December 2, 2021, requiring persons aged two and above to show a negative COVID-19 test result or documentation of recovery from COVID-19 before boarding a flight to the United States, is rescinded, effective June 12, 2022, at 12:01AM ET. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 13, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: 'FSQA Without Laboratory to Establish Alleged Presence of Sniper Insecticide in Smoked Fish'
[The Point] Bai Dodou Jallow, the director of Scientific Affairs, at Food Safety and Quality Authority (FSQA) has confirmed to journalists that his institution hasn't a laboratory to establish the alleged presence of the sniper insecticide in smoked fish sold in the country. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 9, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Concern grows that human monkeypox outbreak will establish virus in animals outside Africa
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Eleven days after being bitten by one of her pet prairie dogs, a 3-year-old girl in Wisconsin on 24 May 2003 became the first person outside of Africa to be diagnosed with monkeypox. Two months later, her parents and 69 other people in the United States had suspected or confirmed cases of this disease, which is caused by a relative of the much deadlier smallpox virus. The monkeypox virus is endemic in parts of Africa, and rodents imported from Ghana had apparently infected captive prairie dogs, Nort...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 8, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: news
Gambia: Childfund Distributes 2250 Hygiene Kits to Displaced Children in Fonis
[The Point] As part of Child Fund's efforts in ameliorating the living condition of displaced children affected by the last skirmish between the Senegalese forces serving Ecomig in The Gambia and the MFDC Separatists, ChildFund International- The Gambia recently distributed 2250 hygiene kits to affected communities in the Fonis. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 8, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: A More Traditional Coronavirus Shot On the Way for Some Unable to Wait!
[The Point] More than a year after people began rolling up their sleeves for cutting-edge coronavirus shots, a new vaccine, this one based on a classic decades-old technology, is expected to begin rolling out in the United States this summer. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 8, 2022 Category: African Health Source Type: news
