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Hifikepunye Lucas Pohamba, President of Namibia, Tuesday received the 2010 FANRPAN Food Security Policy Leadership Award.

Southern Africa remains the area most heavily affected by the epidemic while indications are that HIV prevalence in East Africa has stabilized and in some settings may be declining.

Public Health and Sanitation Permanent Secretary Mark Bor and Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA) Resident Representative, Yoshiyuki Takahashi, will officially open a three-week International Third Country Training Programme on School-based Parasite Control, at the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) Training Center on Monday, March 3^rd to March 14^th 2009.

Uncertainty shrouds the commencement of the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Act, and now experts warn further delay could herald a serious social crisis.

A recent global report by UNEP and World Glacier Monitoring Program (WGMP) headquartered in Geneva says January to March heat waves that were not recurrent more than ten years ago that have been responsible for the meltdown of the snow.

Infant pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) vaccination would be expected to reduce pneumococcal diseases caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae and, is likely to be a cost-effective public health intervention in The Gambia. However, because the cost-effectiveness of a PCV program could be affected by potential serotype replacement or herd immunity effects that may be realized after a large-scale introduction, the importance of iterative evaluation as surveillance data become available cannot be overstated.

Lives of close to 212, 000 Kenyans living with the HIV and AIDS and on ARVs could be in jeopardy following allegations of fraudulence by an Indian major ARV drug supplier rated among the world’s biggest generic-drug makers.