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• InterHealth staff attend Maastricht Congress

  13 June 2013

  Five members of InterHealth's staff attended the Maastricht Congress of the International Society of Travel Medicine (ISTM) in May 2013. The ISTM has over 3000 members and it is a key international scientific and professional body InterHealth is invo…

• Malaria drug resistance in Cambodia

  10 June 2013

  Researchers have identified malaria parasites in Western Cambodia that are genetically different from other malaria parasites and are resistant to artemesinin, a key drug used in treating malaria. This latest research has been published in the journa…

• Yellow fever outbreak in Ethiopia

  10 June 2013

  A mass yellow fever vaccination campaign was launched in Ethiopia on 10th June 2013 by the Ministry of Health following confirmation of 6 yellow fever cases in the country. The first case was laboratory confirmed on 7th May 2013. The cases were ident…

• Drought in Namibia

  07 June 2013

  A devastating drought is currently affecting the whole of Namibia which has killed 4,000 livestock and caused 330,000 Namibians in rural areas (over 14% of the population) to be classified as food insecure. Some regions have received their lowest sea…

• Update on InterHealth in East Africa

  06 June 2013

  Last month, InterHealth’s East Africa Regional Manager, Leanne Kennedy, relocated to Kenya to progress with InterHealth’s vision to set up an East Africa regional hub. This is a really exciting step for InterHealth being our first regional centre out…

• Hygiene - the first health principle

  05 June 2013

  The 5th of May was Hand Hygiene Day. Having a good hand washing technique is the very first step to "turning off the tap of ill-health" - a favourite saying of Dr. Ted Lankester, InterHealth's Director of Health Services.Take a minute to watch this m…

• Preventing Traveller's Diarrhoea

  05 June 2013

  If you have been to InterHealth for a Travel Health Consultation with one of our nurses, you know that you get more than jabs and antimalarials! We do a lot of talking about what you can do to minimise your risk of getting diarrhoea when you are on t…

• Stories from the field

  05 June 2013

  We asked InterHealth staff if they had a hygiene story from the field that others might relate to. Here is what surfaced... Any of these sound familiar? Some of the regrettable ways in which we bring trouble unto ourselves. An article in a London n…