Guinea Bissau: Why Isn't Guinea-Bissau Prepared for Ebola?
[IRIN] Dakar/Bissau -The government of Guinea-Bissau has known for months about the risk of Ebola entering the country, but it hasn't done enough to prepare. Now there is a cluster of cases just across the border. Residents say it will be good fortune rather than good planning if an outbreak is avoided. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 3, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Ebola threat to Guinea Bissau rises as border zone heats up
DAKAR (Reuters) - Violent protests against Ebola controls in a north Guinea town have prompted the Red Cross to withdraw workers, undermining efforts to stop the spread of Ebola into neighboring Guinea Bissau. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 1, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Providing Pediatric Care in Guinea-Bissau
SlideshowProviding Pediatric Care in Guinea-Bissau
May 29, 2015
Located in West Africa, Guinea-Bissau is at the bottom of the world development index. The country ranks 188th of 198 countries in the United Nations 2014 Human Development Report, and has an infant mortality rate of 116 per 1,000 children, which puts Guinea-Bissau among the 10 countries with the worst maternal and child health indicators in the world. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - May 29, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Editorial Intern Source Type: news
Pediatrics in Guinea-Bissau: “Simple Diarrhea Can Become a Deadly Disease”
Voice from the FieldPediatrics in Guinea-Bissau: “Simple Diarrhea Can Become a Deadly Disease”
May 28, 2015
In November 2014, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) launched a pediatric project in the region of Bafatá in central Guinea-Bissau. With an infant mortality rate of 116 per 1,000 children, Guinea-Bissau is among the 10 countries with the worst maternal and child health indicators in the world. Here, Isabel Grovas, the MSF medical coordinator in charge of opening the project, discusses the situation. (Source: MSF News)
Source: MSF News - May 28, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Editorial Intern Source Type: news
West Africa: UN Health Agency Responds to Ebola Spike By Deploying Team On Guinea-Guinea Bissau Border
[UN News] The World Health Organization (WHO) today reported "a substantial increase" in the weekly total of new Ebola cases in Guinea and Sierra Leone and deployed a response team to the border with Guinea Bissau because of its proximity to a recent cluster of cases in a neighbouring Guinean prefecture. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 21, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
UN health agency responds to Ebola spike by deploying team on border of Guinea and Guinea-Bissau
The World Health Organization (WHO) today reported “a substantial increase” in the weekly total of new Ebola cases in Guinea and Sierra Leone and deployed a response team to the border with Guinea-Bissau because of its proximity to a recent cluster of cases in a neighbouring Guinean prefecture. (Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security)
Source: UN News Centre - Health, Poverty, Food Security - May 20, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
‘Tale of Two Cities’ Widens Worldwide for Children, Study Shows
Save the Children said in two-thirds of the countries surveyed, poorest urban children are at least twice as likely to die as wealthy counterparts. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - May 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: RICK GLADSTONE Tags: Central African Republic Guinea-Bissau United States Save the Children Ivory Coast Gambia Babies and Infants Somalia Infant Mortality Niger Haiti Congo, Democratic Republic of (Congo-Kinshasa) Statistics Sierra Leone Urban Area Source Type: news
1.7 Billion Dollars Needed to Improve Ebola-hit Countries’ Health Care, Says Oxfam
Scene from an Ebola treatment facility run by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Guéckédou, Guinea, on the day of a visit from Anthony Banbury, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), on Nov. 1, 2014. Credit: UN Photo/Ari GaitanisBy Valentina IeriUNITED NATIONS, Apr 16 2015 (IPS)The international humanitarian charity Oxfam is calling on the World Bank and major donors to raise 1.7 billion dollars to improve poor health systems in Ebola-affected countries and strengthen community networks for preventing another epidemic.Winnie Byanyima, executive d...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - April 16, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Valentina Ieri Tags: Africa Civil Society Headlines Health Newsbrief TerraViva United Nations ebola Oxfam World Bank Source Type: news
Gambia: Gambia Bags 2015 African Leaders Malaria Alliance Award
[Daily Observer]The Gambia is a recipient of the 2015 African Leaders Malaria Alliance Award (ALMA) for Excellence in implementation of vector control. The Gambia was joined by seven countries that received such an award namely: Burundi, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Guinea, Chad, Guinea Bissau and the Comoros for maintaining 95% coverage or above of vector control (long lasting insecticidal net and/ or indoor residual spraying). (Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria)
Source: AllAfrica News: Malaria - February 11, 2015 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Gambia: Gambia Lifts Travel Ban to Ebola-Affected Countries
[The Point]The Gambia government has lifted the travel ban imposed on countries affected by the deadly Ebola virus namely, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau, with immediate effect. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 9, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
West Africa: Regional Preparedness - Could Guinea-Bissau Handle Ebola?
[Ebola Deeply]The Ebola outbreak may be waning in West Africa, but just one case in a country with a brittle health structure could cause a surge in infections. Ebola Deeply went behind the scenes in Guinea-Bissau, which shares a border with Guinea, to learn about the level of preparedness there. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 2, 2015 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Health Care Volunteers From Nigeria Join The Fight Against Ebola
By James Harding Giahyue and Umaru Fofana MONROVIA/FREETOWN, Dec 5 (Reuters) - More than 175 Nigerian medics arrived in Liberia and Sierra Leone on Friday to join the fight against Ebola, the first of 600 volunteers promised by the regional giant which contained its own outbreak earlier this year. The medics will boost weak local health systems that are also struggling to contain other preventable diseases as Ebola discourages people from going to clinics for fear of contracting the fever. The worst outbreak of Ebola on record has killed at least 6,187 people in the thre...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - December 5, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
Gambia: GRCS Holds Simulation Exercise On Ebola Alert
[Daily Observer]The Gambia Red Cross Society (GRCS) with its partners from Senegal and Guinea Bissau on Saturday conducted a simulation exercise at Giboroh border with the aim of testing the level of preparedness of the Gambia health workers in the Ebola prevention and patient management system. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 11, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Gambia: GRCS Conducts Simulation Exercise to Test Ebola Preparedness
[The Point]The Gambia Red Cross Society, GRCS, with partners from Senegal and Guinea Bissau on Saturday conducted a simulation exercise at the Giboroh border with the aim of testing the level of preparedness of Gambian health workers in Ebola prevention and the patient management system. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - November 10, 2014 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Guinea Bissau: OIG Audit in Guinea-Bissau Questions Whether PBF Is Possible Where Performance Data Are Not Reliable
[GFO]Investigations in Mali and Ghana uncover some misuse of grant funds (Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs)
Source: AllAfrica News: HIV-Aids and STDs - October 16, 2014 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
