“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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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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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 […]
Continue ReadingBy 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 […]
Continue ReadingBy Eritrean Mission to the AU and UNECA, THE Sixteenth Edition of ‘Eri-News’, a bi-weekly electronic newsletter prepared by the Press Section at the Permanent Mission of the State of Eritrea to the AU and UNECA, is out today. In this edition, the topics included are Qatar Airlines’ new flight commencement to Asmara and Neguse […]
Continue ReadingBy Eritrean Mission to the AU and UNECA, THE Fifteenth Edition of ‘Eri-News’, a bi-weekly electronic newsletter prepared by the Press Section at the Permanent Mission of the State of Eritrea to the AU and UNECA, is out today. In this edition, some of the topics included are EU’s commitment to Strengthen Engagement and Partnership […]
Continue ReadingBy 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 […]
Continue ReadingBy 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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