05-29-2019 ■ Breeders from Tangara commune in the northern province of Ngozi are worried about a contagious disease that attack small domestic ruminant and has been spreading in the province for a month. They say the goats that contracted the disease experience severe diarrhea and die within a week. “I had (...)

05-16-2019 ■ “Burundi has made significant progress in gaining access to sexual and reproductive health,” said Richmond Tiemoko, UNFPA representative in Burundi when presenting the annual report on the situation of the world population on May 15. According to reports produced by UNFPA in six years, Burundi maternal mortality rate has (...)

04-10-2019 ■ Shortage of safe drinking water in Cibitoke province has been observed in many communes of this western province since early March 2019. They call on the Burundian company in charge of supplying water and electricity- REGIDESO to handle the issue before they catch diseases caused by the lack of (...)

04-04-2019 ■ “Tuberculosis is still spreading in Burundi,” said Herménégilde Nzimenya, Director of the National Integrated Program to Fight against Leprosy and Tuberculosis (PNILT) on 3 April. More than 7,200 cases of tuberculosis patients were recorded in 2018 while in 2017 more than 7800 cases were recorded according to him. Nzimenya (...)

03-15-2019 ■ On the celebration of the World Kidney Day this 14 March, “Vision Santé”, the club of students in medicine faculty at Ngozi private University in close collaboration with CMCK Hospital has organized a one-day campaign to screen people for kidney disease risk factors. It is around 10 a.m at (...)

03-08-2019 ■ Monaco Humanitarian Collective in close collaboration with “Mécénat Chirurgie Cardiaque” and a local NGO “Le Bon Samaritain” has organized a press conference, this March 7, to raise awareness of the challenges faced by children with heart disease and other orthopedic pathologies to be treated abroad. Alexis Butoyi, Legal Representative (...)

02-21-2019 ■ Pancras Ntibarufata, focal point of the program to fight against leprosy and tuberculosis in the Ministry of Public Health says cases of leprosy are gradually increasing in Burundi. “We identified 385 people infected with leprosy in 2018 among them 83% suffered from multi-bacillary leprosy which is very contagious”, he (...)

02-13-2019 ■ Epileptic people in Burundi say they still face lack of medicines because they are very expensive. Jean Pierre Nshimirimana, the legal representative of the Centre of Action against Epilepsy – APLE, says most of Burundians cannot afford to buy anti-epileptic drugs. “Like some other brain related medicines, anti-epileptic drugs (...)

02-12-2019 ■ From carelessness of health professionals to lack of medicines, sick Burundians say they suffer a number of problems. Sylvain Habanabakize, spokesperson for the network of patients in Burundi-CEMABU says sick people still struggle to access adequate health care because of the irresponsible behavior of some health workers. “There are (...)

01-23-2019 ■ Thaddée Ndikumana, Minister of Public Health reports that the number of malaria cases has significantly increased these days even if it hasn’t reached yet the level of an epidemic. “The number of malaria cases increase in January, February and March in the Sub-Saharan region due to the climate changes,” (...)