02-16-2018 ■ “Reaching an AIDS Free Generation (RAFG) in Burundi” is a project launched this February 15, 2018 by the ministry of health in partnership with USA Embassy in Bujumbura. It will be implemented by Family Health Initiative 360. Clément Niyonsaba, Country Representative of Family Health Initiative, says the new project (...)

02-13-2018 ■ From ignorance to lack of medicine, epileptic people struggle to live in Burundi society. Jean Pierre Nshimirimana, the legal representative of the Center of Action Against Epilepsy – APLE, says most of Burundians ignore that epilepsy can be treated by modern doctors as the disease is often confused with (...)

02-02-2018 ■ More than 9 people have died of malaria since January 2018 in Ngozi province. Health officials fear the increasing number of malaria cases and demand that Burundi Central Department that purchases pharmaceutical products-CAMEBU increases the quantity of amodiaquine and artesunate medicines. When someone arrives at Ngozi Hospital, they see (...)

01-30-2018 ■ An epidemic has recently ravaged goats in Gitega, Mwaro and Kirundo provinces. The minister of agriculture and livestock reassures breeders who have lost their goats that the World Bank is going to compensate them. “The goats that died were imported from Uganda in November 2017 through the Lake Victoria (...)

01-16-2018 ■ All butchers in Gitega, Kirundo and Mwaro provinces are desperately worried as all markets of small ruminants have been temporarily suspended since 1st January 2018 until the situation comes to normal. They have been closed following the detection of an epidemic disease that has already caused deaths of several (...)

01-16-2018 ■ Arc-En-Ciel pharmacy reassures its customers after powdered baby milk produced by French company Lactalis was said to be contaminated with salmonella. In pharmacies that Iwacu visited, Lactalis product mainly imported in Burundi known as Picot milk was removed from the shelves. Some pharmacists met on ground say they were (...)

12-07-2017 ■ Burundi is looking into the adoption of a pharmaceutical bill and establishment of a food and medicine regulatory authority to be in line with EAC standards. Health professionals and pharmacists say this will improve drug regulation. The bill comes to replace a decree existing since 1980. The later presents (...)

12-05-2017 ■ Non communicable diseases-NCDs still kill and threaten Burundians silently. Burundi Non communicable Disease Alliance has organised a two-day- workshop to raise awareness of how the diseases can be prevented and controlled. The four main groups of NCDs are cardiovascular diseases (heart or cerebrovascular accidents), cancers, chronic respiratory diseases (chronic (...)

12-05-2017 ■ In an interview with IWACU, Anne Casper, the USA Ambassador to Burundi says the United States supports 36,000 Burundians living with HIV through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS RELIEF (PEPFAR). She says the program contributes to the reduction of mother-to- child transmission and provides testing and prevention services. (...)

11-29-2017 ■ While the World AIDS Day is celebrated on December 1st, USA Ambassador Ann Casper visited Kamenge Military Hospital -the embassy’s partner, to see which achievements have so far been made to fight against HIV/AIDS. She encourages people to do HIV test. The US Embassy has invested more than USD (...)