Mother-child HIV infection still high

The government is embarking on a campaign aimed at reducing the mother-to-child HIV transmission rate from the current 15 per cent to 5 per cent by next year.

Tuberculosis now ranks alongside HIV as the world's biggest killing infectious disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

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How mother puts life of child at risk
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What lay down in a living room and looked lifeless with bleeding bruises on the throat, a swollen neck and a bulged swollen eye was not a body of a domestic animal left unattended by its owner on Sunday morning, as one would have expected. She was a ...

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Internationally acclaimed Zimbabwean sculptor Dominic Benhura tells the BBC about his work.

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Mother of abducted child with albinism recovering well, says Bugando doctor
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Esther Thomas, mother of the abducted child, is reported to be getting better at the Bugando Medical Centre where she is admitted after sustaining severe injuries, while she was trying to protect her child from the abductors. The mother (30) of a one-year baby ...
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NHIF pushes to improve mother, child health services in Rukwa
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THE National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) has dished out over 173m/- , which will be used to improve mother and child health services in Designated District Hospitals (DDHs) in Rukwa Region. NHIF Rukwa Regional Officer Ramadhani Mhina revealed this ...

Leaders and public health experts from around the world yesterday opened a landmark two-day forum here and called for accelerated action to improve maternal, newborn and child health.