http://medilinkz.org/ Medilinks is your gateway to health and health related information for Africa! en-us Copyright 2004 Medilinks All Rights Reserved. 20 http://medilinkz.org/journal/default2.asp?Journal_ID=175 Peace is on the way and for the first time in twenty years, residents of Northern Uganda will be able to sleep through the night without fear. At least that&#8217;s the hope. With the announcement of a truce between the LRA and the Uganda government,.... http://medilinkz.org/journal/default2.asp?Journal_ID=174 The headline said it all <ahref=”http://medilinkz.org/news/news2.asp?NewsID=17538”>“Ceasefire!”</a>. The news was full of the good news. The Uganda government and the self-styled LRA had <a href=”http://medilinkz.org/news/news2.asp?NewsID=17542”>agre.... http://medilinkz.org/journal/default2.asp?Journal_ID=173 With the end of the IAS 2006, the predictable debates and recriminations about whether it was worth it, if anything substantial was achieved, what can be done and where do we go from here will start or more correctly are set to continue. But t.... http://medilinkz.org/journal/default2.asp?Journal_ID=172 I’m trying to drum up some eager enthusiasm for the <a href=”www.aids2006.org”>XVI International AIDS Conference</a> in Toronto that’s going on even as I type. I’ve gone as far as hosting syndicated content from <a href=”http://www.kaisernetwork.org.... http://medilinkz.org/journal/default2.asp?Journal_ID=171 The tide may be turning once more in the fight against malaria. In what surely must a triumph of commonsense and science over reactionary knee jerk politics, the news that the <a href=”http:medilinkz.org/news/news2.asp?NewsID=17242”>WHO has decided t.... http://medilinkz.org/journal/default2.asp?Journal_ID=170 Once again Uganda is holding it’s breathe for peace. Peace talks between the Ugandan government and the LRA formally opened on Friday in the southern Sudanese capital of Juba. But prior to this there was much confusion about whether senior LRA leader.... http://medilinkz.org/journal/default2.asp?Journal_ID=169 Another year and more of the same. Events in the Middle East have taken centre stage and driven all other concerns off the table. It was hoped that there would be movement on the global problem of infectious disease which was supposed to be a major.... http://medilinkz.org/journal/default2.asp?Journal_ID=168 By chance I came across some old webpages cached from 5 years ago, the very early days of Medilinks. At the time Medilinks was hosted at www.medilinks.org. A lot has changed over the last 5 years, and yet depressingly a lot has remained the same. Th.... http://medilinkz.org/journal/default2.asp?Journal_ID=167 For more than 50 years we have known how to manage safe child birth and yet more than 500,000 women die a year from preventable causes during childbirth, the most natural of processes. Most are from the developed world, many from Africa. This week co.... http://medilinkz.org/journal/default2.asp?Journal_ID=166 This week comes news that the Uganda government is giving Kony a pardon to end the war in the North. Why I hear you cry, why would they do such a thing? Perhaps they are bowing to international pressure…My views on Kony and his henchmen are well know....