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Health in Gambia |
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Charities
Information Travel
Health
Medical Companies |
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Vaccinations
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Bijilo Medical Centre
Established in 2002 to provide comprehensive and
affordable quality medical services. |
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BUPA International Health Insurance Facilities
It has 2 clinics (for travellers from the UK)
providing medical cover for Gambia. |
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Department of State
for Health |
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Gambia
Health Care Association
Founded in Switzerland with a clinic
in Bijilo providing out-patient treatment of general
medicine, internal medicine, surgery,
gynaecology-obstetrics, paediatric treatment, ear-nose
and throat, ophthalmology & dentistry. |
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Government Health Policy Framework
From the pages of the State House it
gives an in-depth look at the country's medical
services, underlying principles, 5 year strategic
goal, implementation and monitoring. |
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Health Care System
An outline of the 3 levels of the medical system
i.e. Primary, Secondary and Tertiary. |
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HIV
Prevalence Report [ ]
Final draft of Aids statistics in the general
population taken between January 2003 to December
2005 which also includes details of the national
response to it. |
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Infant Mortality Rates
A report titled -
Access to health care and mortality of children
under 5 years of age in the Gambia: a case–control
study - for the Bulletin of the World Health
Organization 2009. |
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Maternal Mortality in Rural Gambia
An extensive study which explores
the reasons for death at childbirth for women in
rural areas of the country which was often caused by
delays in seeking urgent medical attention. |
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Medical
Research Council [MRC]
Health research body with a clinic. |
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Mental Health [WHO]
Estimates indicate that out of the
population of 1.5 million, approximately 120,000
people are suffering from a mental disorder that
requires psychiatric intervention and treatment. |
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Oral Health
An area country profile about the
country's dental hygiene covering dental caries,
tooth mortality, sugar consumption and manpower. The
study was conducted between the WHO and Malmo
University, Sweden. |
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Pneumococcal Vaccine Trials [NIAID, NIH -
USA.gov]
A study that showed that the leading
cause of death among infants was due to acute
respiratory infections (ARI) which is mainly caused
by bacterial pneumonia. The research was carried out
by a wide coalition of partners. |
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Power Up
Gambia
Founded in 2006 by Kathryn
Cunningham Hall it is a non-profit
organisation dedicated to providing electricity and
water to healthcare facilities through the use of
solar energy. |
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Royal
Victoria Hospital
The largest general hospital in
Gambia which is in the city of Banjul & It provides Primary
Healthcare in its Polyclinic on Independence Drive. |
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Tobacco articles
Online publications from varied
sources covering issues of tobacco health in Gambia. |
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Tuberculosis
A study into TB patients experiences
and behaviour in seeking medical treatment when they
had a cough as well as statistics of the incidence
of Tuberculosis among sections of the population. |
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World
Health Organization
Health statistics & indicators
including polio, tuberculosis, oral health, diabetes
prevalence, infant mortality, immunization
coverage and recommended travel vaccinations
for Gambia. |
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