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Zambia starts first-ever diarrhoea vaccines on children

Zambian health authorities on Monday started the country's first-ever vaccine campaign against diarrhoea on children under five years of age, in an attempt to reduce deaths arising from the disease.

Medications created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds community counseling reduced the prevalence of TB on a budget

The results of a large-scale community-randomized trial presented at the 42nd World Conference on Lung Health in Lille, France today show that the Zambia-South Africa TB and AIDS Reduction (ZAMSTAR) project reduced the prevalence ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Oct 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Instruction for midwives lowers death rate for newborns in Zambia

 (Medical Xpress) -- An inexpensive instructional program to teach routine newborn care skills to midwives in Zambia resulted in a substantial reduction in the death rate of infants in the first week of life, according ...

Health created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0