Tag: health

Bukoba — Tanzanians including care takers and health attendants should effectively take preventive measures and health infection prevention and control ...

At least, 1,469 individuals have died in multiple disease outbreaks that have plagued Ghana in the last two years. The ...

United States Consul General in Nigeria, Will Stevens has disclosed that getting 13,000 HIV/AIDS-positive Osun residents on treatment requires communal ...

Nairobi — President William Ruto on Thursday announced the establishment of a Sh 67 billion ($500 million) mRNA vaccine facility ...

Nairobi, Kenya — 28 March 2023. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) officially launched its continental ...

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) will be exhibiting at the 2023 World Vaccine Congress- from ...

IN SHORT: There is no data to support the claim of a 4,070% increase in miscarriages and stillbirths as a ...

Maputo — A vaccination campaign against cholera starts on Thursday),and is expected to cover over 1.7 million people. The ...

Maputo — Over 40,000 head of cattle have been vaccinated against foot-and-mouth disease in the central Mozambican province of Tete. ...

The Department of Health has expressed concern at the increasing number of locally acquired indigenous cholera cases following the four ...

Sumbe — The United Nations Global Fund is to grant 126 million US dollars to Angola for the next financing ...

Already bogged down by loadshedding, operations at various health facilities in Gauteng and some other provinces have also been disrupted ...

"Some of our members died of COVID-19 because we worked even during level 5 of the lockdown" About 50 former ...

By Checky Abuje United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has said a waste crisis is imminent and is undermining the earth’s ...

NIGERIA is the highest country battling malnutrition in Africa, with over 17 million malnourished children, the Federal Government, FG, and ...

On 17 March 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that health officials in Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo ...

US$7.1 million is urgently needed to restore full food rations for 56,000 refugees over the next six months. More than ...

Wiki In Africa (www.wikiinafrica.org) and their organising partner, Wikimedia Usergroup Côte d’Ivoire, have launched the Africa Environment WikiFocus to improve ...

Blantyre, Malawi — The U.N. humanitarian agency says Malawi needs immediate help to deal with diseases spreading in displacement camps ...

The head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that the agency was working to help contain ...

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Investment, Industry, and Trade have conducted a ...

Visiting US Vice President Kamala Harris Should Urge Government to Respect As United States Vice President Kamala Harris visits Tanzania ...

Zainab (not her real name) first learned about latent tuberculosis (TB) when she was 16 and her doctor informed her ...

Lasting damage to the heart and brain is an aspect of long COVID that should receive much more attention than ...

London — 'The UN has essentially created a two-tier system for survivors of sexual abuse.' Ketsia* said she was working ...

A recent ground-breaking series of reports in the science journal The Lancet unpacks what commercial determinants of health are, and ...

It is almost impossible nowadays to listen to the radio, watch TV or scroll through social media without being exposed ...

Feminists from DRC Take a Deep Dive into the Digital Space   The rising influence of technology and its important ...

South Africa's National Strategic Plan for HIV, TB and STIs (2023 - 2028) was launched on Friday at Tlhabane Stadium ...

The theme of last year's World Tuberculosis (TB) Day was 'Invest to end TB' - an apt theme acknowledging the ...

Berlin — Belgium will support Kenya's development agenda through partnerships in trade and investment, health and renewable energy. It will ...

African Union Commission and Nutrition International join forces to launch advocacy campaign focused on reducing malnutrition particularly in adolescent girls ...

The two-day High-Level Dialogue on Nutrition Financing which started on 23 March, set out to review initiatives on private sector ...

Mary Wafula wasn't new to motherhood. All was bliss until the 9th month after delivery when she discovered she was ...

The Melcom Cares Foundation (MCF) has presented three electrical appliances to the Department of Medical Services of the Ghana Armed ...

Maputo — Mozambique has received 1.7 million doses of vaccines against cholera, a disease that has so far killed 85 ...

Mpanda — ABOUT 1,000 people in Mpanda Municipality of Katavi region have been diagnosed with Tuberculosis (TB) during a period ...

Maputo, Mozambique — Health officials in Mozambique are set to hold a massive cholera vaccination campaign in Quelimane, a city ...

The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) is calling for emergency funding to broaden efforts to reach millions living across 11 eastern ...

The NCDC said that 71 per cent of all new confirmed Lassa fever cases were reported from Ondo, Edo and ...