I was delighted to read from the Monitor pages, an article titled " Para-medical hostels in sorry state" (March 20-26, 2005). The experiences and reflections of the journalist are hard facts, and yet another confirmation that Mulago Paramedical schools are

The Acting Chairman of the National Drug Authority (NDA), Dr James Makumbi, has in a strange twist denied that the authority intended to employ Dr Erisa Owino as the head of the National Quality Control Laboratory.

The civic group Association for Justice, Peace and Democracy (AJPD) is to lauch this afternoon, in Luanda, a compilation of national and international legislations relating to human rights, which is a brochure entitled "Angolan Charter on HIV/Aids and Human Rights".

The district administration will recruit at least 25 health workers to solve staff shortage in most health centres.

The provincial government of the central Bie Province, on Tuesday, in Kuito city, paid homage to the victims of the haemorrhage fever, which in the past few weeks killed around 117 peopled in the northern Uije Province.

There are new challenges currently facing Botswana's democracy and they must be addressed, said Log Raditlhokwa, a political analyst and Social Work lecturer at the University of Botswana.

THE ministry of health should establish more centres for voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) in Pader, the district health educator, Jacinta Obok, has said.

East African governments have been asked to exempt antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) from the 10% tax levy introduced as a result of the East African Customs Union.

Disabled people estimated at 10 per cent of the country's population have long been left out of national planning.

Eight months ago, Swamp Fever hit parts of Bungoma District in Western Province.

The American embassy has denied claims that that it is pushing Uganda to promote abstinence instead of condom use in the fight against HIV/Aids.