Global Village for Health

Barbados Experience Increase in Drug Cost

Using 1998 as the base year,” Inniss said, “Barbados has seen an increase in expenditure in its public drug service of approximately 325 per cent up to 2009, which does not include the QEH [Queen Elizabeth Hospital] expenditure on drugs.”

Rise in Herbal Treatment in Cameroon

The use of natural plants for treatment in Cameroon is on the increase. Each day there are new kinds of treatments which some traditional doctors claim to have discovered to cure particular diseases. There is always a crowd that follows these so called healers because of, maybe, frustrating situations they might have faced with conventional medicine or otherwise. The influx of the Chinese into the country has come with another form of natural treatment. There even exist Cameroonians who say they have gone to China to learn the traditional treatment and are now practicing in Cameroon.

Cholera Outbreak in Kenya

New Military Policy in South Africa
A November 2009 statement by the SANDF noted that the new policy made provision for the "recruitment and selective deployment of HIV-positive members" of the military and complied with a High Court ruling in May 2008, which found the previous policy of excluding HIV-positive people from recruitment and foreign deployment unconstitutional.

Caribbean Is A Mixture of Health Cultures

A Caribbean health expert in Brooklyn has urged medical providers to make every effort to better understand the culture of their patients in order to to be more aware and understanding of their varying health beliefs when treating them.

New Studies on Prostate Cancer Suggest PSA Important to African Americans

Getting a PSA, or prostate specific antigen, measurement increases your life expectancy from prostate cancer by 50%. African Americans are most at risk. Sometimes the PSAS will result in unnecessary surgery or other interventions. But knowing what your PSA result is helps you make a better decision about what to do.