….inspiration to theatre corridor at Helen Joseph Breast Clinic – Abbott Oncology has sponsored the design and painting of a brilliantly coloured, inspiring mural on the walls and ceiling of a corridor at the Helen Joseph Breast Clinic. It’s the route along which patients are wheeled to the operating theatre and the purpose of the image is to encourage, instill confidence and faith, and inspire. For Abbott, this helps fulfill a strongly held company philosophy – caring. In June, the Abbott team took up brushes and helped to paint the mural at the hospital. “It was an inspiring experience for... Continue Reading
London, 2 August 2012 – New epidemiological data from two refugee camps in South Sudan show mortality and malnutrition rates soaring above emergency thresholds, announced Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) today. More than 170,000 refugees have made the harrowing journey across the border to escape conflict and food insecurity in Sudan’s Blue Nile and South Kordofan States. Many had to walk for weeks and have arrived in four refugee camps in an extremely weak and vulnerable condition. In two of the camps in particular appalling living conditions are resulting in devastating health consequences. Since June, an average of five children are dying each day in Yida camp and one in three... Continue Reading
DAADAB, 31 July 2012 (IRIN) – Large quantities of foodstuffs and other goods were destroyed by a fire on 29 July at the main market in one of the camps making up Dadaab refugee complex in eastern Kenya. “The total extent of the damage from this devastating fire is impossible to assess in detail at this early stage. However we can confirm that 80 percent of the market was destroyed. There was also some minor damage to surrounding residential blocks, not by the fire itself, but by looting when they had been abandoned by their fleeing residents,” said Mans Nyberg,... Continue Reading
Kigadi/London, 31 July, 2012: An emergency team from the international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins SansFrontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is in Kigadi, in western Uganda’s Kibaale district, to help fight an outbreak of the Ebola virus. Other MSF teams in Uganda are closely monitoring the situation. The Ebola outbreak, confirmed by Ugandan government on 28 July, has killed at least 14 people, while at least 20 more are thought to be infected. The MSF team’s priorities are to identify and care for people who have been infected, as well as all those who have been in contact with them, and to ensure that emergency medical services are functioning. They... Continue Reading
By Yolanda Ndlovu – Harare, July 18, 2012: Despite being vulnerable to rape and other forms of sexual abuse, disabled people are often overlooked in national HIV prevention strategies because policy makers do not perceive them as sexually active, representatives of disabled groups said on Tuesday. “If we look at the current National Aids Strategic Plan for 2008 to 2015, it fails to mention people living with disabilities and they are not deliberately targeted in the national response,” Hamida Ismail of the Disability, HIV and AIDS Trust (DHAT) told audiences at a Food for Thought discussion session held at the... Continue Reading
