Health

Most of Africa's population - 70% - is under 30 years old. In 2017 there were 628 million young people...

Cape Town — More and more Africans are experiencing poverty. coupled with the impact of Covid-19 and the war between...

Potable water is treated before distributed in pipes across the entire city. The process runs 24/7 to enable fresh, safe...

Monrovia — Dr. David Walton, United States of America's new Global Malaria Coordination, has commended the Ministry of Health, along...

Monrovia — The Managing Director of the Liberia Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Authority, Pharmacist Keturah C. Smith-Chineh, has vowed...

Monrovia — The public health sector of Liberia is largely in tatters - operationally and legally. The effective functioning of...

The Ministry of Health plans to conduct an in-depth assessment of the state of mental health following several reports of...

Avian influenza ("bird flu") is a highly contagious viral infection that affects wild and domestic birds worldwide. It has recently...

The Government of Liberia has committed $ US 1.8 Million to augment the salaries of Health Workers in the country....

Menstrual hygiene and period poverty continue to be a major challenge affecting girls and women in Nigeria. Despite being a...

Deputy Minister of health Halima Daudi has expressed the need for more investment in efforts to fight against tuberculosis (TB)...

As is the case of preventive measures for CoVID-19 of practising personal hygiene; observing social distance and strict hand washing,...

UmojaHack Africa 2023, the single largest pan-African machine learning hackathon, took place 18-19 March 2023. The event brought together over...

Neglected tropical diseases are a group of 20 diseases found mostly in tropical regions that are strongly associated with poverty....

As part of its effort to address the shortage of training opportunities in accurate measurements and related fields, the National...

Maputo — The US Embassy in Maputo has pledged that the US will continue "to support Mozambique in taking concrete...

Iipanda Yamiti residents in the Omusati region will no longer have to travel vast distances to Oshikuku, Oshakati and Outapi...

Hypertension and diabetes were theleading cause of deaths recorded in the Greater Accra Region, last year. Likewise, malaria continues to...

Bukoba — THE government has continued to strengthen measures to control further spread of Marburg disease detected in Kagera Region,...

TUBERCULOSIS (TB) is a disease caused by germs that are spread from person to person through the air. TB usually...

Mwanza — MWANZA region has conducted public awareness on preventive measures against Marburg virus disease which has been reported in...

"Yes! We Will End TB!"‎ 2023 WORLD TUBERCULOSIS DAY COMMEMORATION Q&A Interview With Prof. Julio RAKOTONIRINA, Director of Health and...

Kampala — Dental experts warned the public against counterfeit kinds of toothpaste that don't have required levels of fluoride. Dr...

Brazzaville — The African region is recording around 4% annual decline rate in tuberculosis (TB) cases. Although the rate is...

Dear friends, colleagues and partners As we come together to commemorate World Tuberculosis Day, we stand in solidarity with the...

WHO launches today the first ever list of priority paediatric formulations for antibiotics so that more targeted research and development...

Since 2005, over 2 billion insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) have been distributed worldwide to prevent malaria. All of these nets were...

A first-of-its-kind World Health Organization (WHO) Global report on sodium intake reduction shows that the world is off-track to achieve...

Frontier research is generating strong evidence to suggest that many psychedelics have the potential to treat numerous mental health and...

In a world still grappling with malaria elimination, Rwanda was the first country to integrate and deploy drones in the...

Working mothers are leaving their babies to domestic workers soon after three months of maternity leave elapse, MP Frank Habineza...

Yaounde, Cameroon — Cameroon and Gabon have stepped up border security after neighboring Equatorial Guinea confirmed a spreading Marburg virus...

Twenty-one (21) months since the inception of the Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and...

For the first time in more than a decade, the number of people dying from tuberculosis (TB) rose last year...

From broken teeth to sprained ankles, suffering an injury while playing a sport is relatively common. While some of these...

Juba — The shooting deaths of two drivers with the U.N.'s World Food Program in South Sudan last week underscored...

In March 2020, weeks before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, its director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivered...

The Unitaid-funded IMPAACT4TB Consortium, led by the Aurum Institute, announced today that it will provide 250,000 patient courses of short-course...

Harare — In March 2021, rebels carried out an assault on the town of Palma in northern Mozambique that left scores...

Geita — GEITA Region has recorded 90 per cent access of essential drugs and medical equipment in its health facilities....