Health Care

U.S. Foreign Health Investments Improve Lives Abroad — And Here at Home – Huffington Post

I have spent the past 3 years working on global health issues for one simple reason: I don’t get it. I simply cannot fathom that today’s technology allows me to tweet to my fans from Cameroon and … equal access … Continue reading

mHealth Alliance and Rockefeller Foundation Honor Leading Mobile Health Innovators of the Year – PRWeb

Isaac Holeman for an application that enables menu-driven applications to run directly from a SIM card on even the least expensive phones in Malawi and Cameroon … health records to provide patient-specific and timely reminders about deficiencies in care …

mHealth Alliance and Rockefeller Foundation Honor Leading Mobile Health Innovators of the Year – YAHOO!

Martin Were for AMPATH – a clinical decision-support system that incorporates patient data within electronic health records to provide patient-specific and timely reminders about deficiencies in care to clinicians in Kenya. Winners were brought to the …

Cameroon : Youths discuss prevention challenges – AllAfrica.com

One of the youth representative from Cameroon, Salomon Mfouapon, said whether HIV is eradicated or not, young people will always need sex education so as to be empowered about their reproductive health and the fight against HIV/AIDS. While …

Male sex workers in Cameroon face social stigma and poor access to care | Anne Mireille Nzouankeu – The Guardian

Aurélie is a transvestite sex worker in Cameroon’s largest city … sexual healthcare, such as health education, preventive counselling and sexually transmitted disease testing, treatment and care.” Adonis Tchoudja, president of Aids Acodev …

Male sex workers in Cameroon face social stigma and poor access to care – The Guardian

Aurélie is a transvestite sex worker in Cameroon’s largest city … to appropriate sexual healthcare, such as health education, preventive counselling and sexually transmitted disease testing, treatment and care.” Adonis Tchoudja, president of Aids …

MSF addresses Cameroon cholera epidemic – News-Medical.Net

MSF has provided oral rehydration solution, water purifying capabilities, and medical aid and assistance in Cameroon, and the organization … a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

New vaccine to fight meningitis out – Vanguard

ABUJA-National Primary Health Care Development Agency, NPHCDA … This is the second CSM vaccination campaign in Africa’s meningitis belt, involving Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon, after the first phase last year spanned Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.

Voices from the frontline: Counsellors’ perspectives on TB/HIV collaborative activities in the Northwest Region, Cameroon – BioMed Central

This policy was subsequently adopted by the national TB and HIV programmes in Cameroon with TB and HIV nurses/counsellors … who relentlessly dissuade patients from seeking mainstream medical care. In order to achieve a sustainable collaboration between …

Women and children neglected in drive for equitable health for all – World Health Organization

Success stories of social and political action in 10 countries around the world, including Egypt, Bangladesh, Malawi, Ecuador, Afghanistan, Cameroon … and discrimination and denied access to health care. In some countries they are required …