In continuation with our weekly health and nutrition bantaba articles, this columnist interviewed Dr Hassan Azadeh Senior Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Leturer in Obstetrics/Gynaecology and clinical Director BAFROW on this so important issue.

UNAIDS calls for global freedom of movement for people living with HIV in 2010
UNAIDS strongly welcomes the elimination of travel restrictions based on HIV status by the Republic of Korea , effective 1 January 2010. It also commends the United States for full implementation of the final rule that removes entry restrictions which means that travellers living with HIV can freely enter the United States of America as of today.

The health impact of climate change is a critical issue that policy-makers should be aware of while setting priorities for action and investment to mitigate the impact of global climate change. This is the key message that WHO experts delivered at the Climate Change Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions conference in Copenhagen.

Traditional medicine, likewise conventional one has continued to play a significant role in the maintenance and restoration of health to a scores of people in our contemporary society. Being one of the oldest health administrative systems in the world, traditional medicine has been quite often proven to be effective, reliable and risk free since it inception.

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are infections that are spread primarily through person-to-person sexual contact. There are more than 30 different sexually transmissible bacteria, viruses and parasites. Several, in particular HIV and syphilis, can also be transmitted from mother to child during pregnancy and childbirth, and through blood products and tissue transfer.
Some of the commonest sexually transmitted pathogens can be divided into those caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites.

Oral hygiene and health go beyond maintaining just a healthy tooth. It should be noted that oral health is a general health condition that affects people from all walks of life physically and psychologically and influences how they look, grow, speak, chew, taste food and socialize, as well as their feelings of social well-being.

Dr. Alieu Gaye a renowned physician and specialist in diabetes has observed in this exclusive interview with Health and Nutrition Bantaba that urbanization, Westernization and sedentary life style are among the risk factors of diabetes. “Diabetes is more of a peri urban disease in The Gambia and the same trend happens in other countries,’ he observed. Read to find out.
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Dr. Alieu Gaye a renowned physician and specialist in diabetes has observed in this exclusive interview with Health and Nutrition Bantaba that urbanization, Westernization and sedentary life style are among the risk factors of diabetes. “Diabetes is more of a peri urban disease in The Gambia and the same trend happens in other countries,’ he observed. Read to find out.

A two days workshop on communication messages and strategy development on Avian and Human Influenza prevention and control was conducted at the NaNA Conference Hall in Bakau from the 3rd to 4th September.

A man named Beto Fonseca Mandante from the Portuguese colony of Guinea Bissau was on the 24th of august 2009 approached this paper, explaining his urgent need to have overseas treatment.