HIV/AIDS: Threat to Society and Security

“HIV/AIDS is “an insidious and relentless foe, more destructive than any army, any conflict, and any weapon of mass destruction” – Colin Powel BY SIMON WELDEMICHAEL Throughout history, there have been many devastating pandemics and disasters around the globe. While humanity has experienced great mortality through wars and pandemics, few things have inflicted death and […]

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Eritrea’s Progress Combating HIV/AIDS

By Fikrejesus Amahazion, ACCORDING to UNAIDS, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains the region most heavily affected by the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. Specifically, of the 35 million people living with HIV, approximately 25 million are living in SSA, and the region accounted for 74% of all the people dying from AIDS-related causes in 2013. However, amidst these […]

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Sudan Relocates 2000 Ethiopian Refugees From El-Dabba to Contain an Outbreak

By Sudan Tribune, SUDANESE authorities and popular bodies have evacuated two thousands Ethiopian nationals from the locality of El-Dabba in the Northern state following discovery of several Hepatitis and AIDS cases among them. The commissioner of El-Dabba locality, Isam Abdel-Rahman, told Sudan Tribune that the security committee in the state conducted a random medical examination […]

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UN General Assembly Side Event on “Innovations Driving Health MDGs in Eritrea” to be Held

By UN Country Team (Eritrea), A SIDE event on thd “Innovations Driving Health MDGs in Eritrea” will be jointly organized by the Government of Eritrea and the UN Country Team on the margins of the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly on 26th September at UN Conference Room #5, UN Main Secretariat. The Eritrean Population […]

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HIV/AIDS Prevalence Rates in Eritrea the Lowest in Sub-Saharan Africa: UNAIDS

By TesfaNews, ACCORDING to the UNAIDS Gap Report that was released today, Eritrea has been named as a country with the lowest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the report titled “Beginning of the End of the Aids Epidemic“, it was indicated that the number of AIDS-related deaths in sub-Saharan Africa fell by 39% between […]

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Ethiopia Named #1 Unhealthiest Country in the World

By  TheRichest.com, THE RICHEST.com website have ranked the world’s 10 unhealthiest countries according to the Social Progress Imperative (SPI) 2013 health and wellness measures. Surprisingly, all of the ten countries are from Africa with Ethiopia being listed on the top as #1 with a total scorecard of 23.03 and Rwanda #10 with 35.65. 

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