News Angola Health: Both sides to keep negotiating in prison health care lawsuit
Inmates at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola are suing the state corrections department. The Advocate reports U.S. Magistrate Judge Richard Bourgeois Jr. held a conference last week with ...
News Angola Health: Malaria-anemia comorbidity prevalence as a measure of malaria-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa
Different methods and data sources have been utilized to determine the relationship between malaria and mortality in endemic countries. Most of these efforts have focused on deaths directly attributed to malaria, while they overlooked causes of mortality that might be indirectly related to the disease, for instance anemia. We estimated the association of malaria parasitaemia, anemia, and malaria-anemia comorbidity with all-cause under-five mortality and evaluated the potential of malaria-anemia comorbidity prevalence to quantify malaria-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa. We analysed data from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and employed Bayesian geostatistical models. Mortality hazard obtained from malaria-anemia comorbidity prevalence was up to 3ยท5 times higher compared to the hazard related to Plasmodium parasitaemia only. Malaria parasite prevalence alone could not always capture a statistically important association with under-five mortality. Geographical variation of the malaria-anemia comorbidity effect was observed in most, but not all, countries. We concluded that the malaria burden in sub-Saharan Africa is considerably underestimated when anemia in not taken into account and that the malaria-anemia comorbidity prevalence provides a useful measure of the malaria-related deaths.
News Angola Health: Angola: Struggle Will Continue Until All Women and Girls Have Choices and Control Over Their Futures
Despite remarkable gains in ensuring rights and choices in Angola, there is still a long way to go, said UNFPA Representative in Angola, Florbela Fernandes. The struggle will continue until women and girls everywhere are healthy, able to exercise choices and have control over their futures.
News Angola Health: Angola: Finance Minister Hopeful of "Angola Day"
Angola's Finance minister, Archer Mangueira, said on Monday in Luanda, that he is expectant on the approval in Washington, of the projects the country has submitted to World Bank, which will consecrate Tuesday as "Angola Day".
News Angola Health: WHO declares Ebola outbreak is international health emergency, but not global threat
The World Health Organisation on Wednesday declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo to be a "public health emergency of international concern", saying the recent risk of its spread in the city of Goma and into Uganda had increased the threat. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he had accepted the recommendations of a committee of international experts which stressed there should be no restrictions on travel or trade, and no entry screening of passengers at ports or airports outside the immediate region.
News Angola Health: Angola: Education and Health Out of Vat
The Education and Health sectors are out of the new tax regime to enter into force nest October in Angola, most concretely the Value Added Tax (VAT), said on Monday in Luanda, the Finance minister, Archer Mangueira.
News Angola Health: The Wrong Side of History
Yet most of them had never returned to their native Angola, lacking either the will or the means to ... Given the ever-deteriorating standard of living and the lack of health facilities, bereavement ...
News Angola Health: Squalid migrant shantytown forms in Mexican border city
"But they don't do anything. They don't even have a health and sanitation plan." The stench of rotting trash and human feces pervades the air of the shantytown. Migrants from Angola and Haiti ...
