Health

Virginia Mutsamwira says she treats four times the number of patients she should ideally handle at a township clinic in...

Rwanda has scrapped a requirement for face masks in public, easing its strict coronavirus restrictions. Rwanda's vaccine rollout has been...

A Senegalese court on Wednesday handed six-month suspended terms to three midwives in the high-profile case of a mother-to-be who...

According to a proposal under consideration by the Ministry of Health, if you end up in a hospital with any...

The Ministry of Health announced an outbreak of Cholera in the Kamukunji area in Nairobi. Health CS Mutahi Kagwe blamed...

South Africa on Thursday ended mask-wearing for school children despite a surge of infections driven by two new Omicron sub-variants...

The much-postponed corruption trial of South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma ran into fresh legal delays and health problems on Monday...

A cruise ship docked in a Tunisian port on Wednesday for the first time since 2019, carrying over 700 passengers...

Kenya said Thursday it was investigating allegations that thousands of donated condoms, mosquito nets and life-saving medicines were stolen from...

Despite his financial services job in the north Nigerian city of Kano, two years ago Usman Ahmad started buying cheaper...

An outbreak of yellow fever, an acute and contagious viral disease, has claimed four lives in Kenya since it was...

A top court in Gabon has dismissed a bid by opposition figures for a medical assessment of President Ali Bongo...

Malawi said Thursday it will launch a nationwide polio vaccination campaign next month following the detection of its first case...

The United Nations slammed baby formula makers Wednesday for "unethical" marketing strategies, accusing them of aggressively targeting expecting parents and...

Six African countries have been chosen to establish their own mRNA vaccine production, the World Health Organization said Friday, with...

Morocco on Thursday inaugurated construction of an anti-Covid vaccine manufacturing plant in partnership with Swedish firm Recipharm, the official news...

Kenya and Mauritania have received nearly two million new doses of Covid-19 vaccines from the United States in the latest...

US biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong on Wednesday opened a plant in Cape Town that will be the first in Africa...

Doctors in Ethiopia's Tigray region are recycling surgical gloves and using salt to disinfect wounds as essential medical supplies run...

A delayed second and third dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine results in a heightened immune response to COVID-19, according to...

Kenya launched the second phase of the COVID-19 sensitization campaign Monday, in what officials said will run for a week. Government...

The government has allocated Ksh.14.3 billion in the 2021/2022 budget to facilitate the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines across the country....

Two families in Nanyuki, Laikipia County, are seeking justice for their kins who are alleged to have died while awaiting...

Homa Bay County Teaching and Referral Hospital has run out of oxygen supply and beds for admitting Covid-19 patients amid...

The new 15 infections of the Indian strain were identified from 17 samples that were tested in the Kenya Medical...

The COVID-19 variant from India has now been detected in Kenya, the Ministry of Health has stated. Acting Director General...

The number of Covid-19 jabs administered globally surpassed the one billion mark on Saturday, offering hope even as the number...

The Law Society of Kenya (LSK) has moved to court challenging the decision by government to ban private sector importation,...

After seeing our former Prime Minister yesterday out and about with President Uhuru Kenyatta in Nairobi and Kajiado counties, barely...

India’s temporary hold on major exports of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 shot will undermine Africa’s vaccination plans and could have a “catastrophic”...