03-25-2017 ■ About 8,000 people had contracted tuberculosis in Burundi in 2016. More than 4,000 suffered from contagious tuberculosis, said the Minister of Health marking World Tuberculosis Day on 24 March. Hungry sufferers say that their tuberculosis cannot be cured as long as they have nothing to eat. More than 10 (...)

03-14-2017 ■ The Minister of Public Health and the Fight against AIDS said yesterday that malaria has become an epidemic in Burundi. About 2 million people have contracted malaria since January 2017 and about 700 people have died of the disease in the same period, says the minister. “Over 700 people (...)

02-23-2017 ■ “From 2015 to 2016, the number of people suffering from malaria has increased in Burundi. However, the number of sick people has decreased of 20% at the beginning of 2017”, says Josiane Nijimbere, Burundi Public Health Minister, during the plenary session in the National Assembly, this 23 February. She (...)

02-21-2017 ■ This Monday, 20 February 2017, Déo Guide Rurema, Burundi Minister of Agriculture and Livestock, has announced a number of measures taken to contain bird flu in the country. Among the measures that have been taken by the ministry of agriculture and livestock is the suspension of the movement of (...)

02-08-2017 ■ Epileptics are treated abominably and unfairly in the Burundian society. On the occasion of the International Epilepsy Day, the Ministry of Public Health says it organizes sensitization campaigns to break down the prejudices. They are described as bewitched and possessed by a demonic spirit as well as people with (...)

02-08-2017 ■ CAMEBU informed all Burundi health districts that the amoxicillin syrup 125, lot 1409015 and lot 1409016 must be taken back to CAMEBU’s office. On Tuesday 7 February, Servilien Mpawenimana, CAMEBU Technical Manager, said analyses have shown that it is a bad quality medicine. The purchasing centre of essential medicines (...)

02-02-2017 ■ In various pharmacies, Bujumbura inhabitants find it hard to get some medicines specially those made in European laboratories. Pharmacists explain that this shortage of medicines is linked to the lack of foreign currency in the country. “My child was suffering from a severe infection and the doctor prescribed an (...)

01-19-2017 ■ Since January 02, signs of bird flu were detected in Uganda where fishermen reported “mass death of wild birds” on the shores of Lake Victoria, near Entebbe, which lies near the capital Kampala. Burundi is on alert. The director in charge of animal health in the Burundian ministry of (...)

01-10-2017 ■ Efforts against cholera in Burundi are reactive rather than preventive which makes the eradication of the epidemic impossible. Cholera has affected more than 130 people in Rugombo, Cibitoke western province from 21 December 2016. Rugombo is the latest of the multiple occurrences of the epidemic that has been, from (...)

01-06-2017 ■ Burundi has now potentials to offer better and low-cost care to cataract patients thanks to a recent acquisition of advanced surgical materials. Burundian cataract patients will be treated with up-to-date surgical equipment and medical materials that the Ministry of Public Health has recently acquired. The treatment might be at (...)