Tag: Health

The true global death toll of Covid-19 remains difficult to nail down three years after the first case was detected, ...

Ogweno Stephen is a Kenyan health innovator who is primarily know for his role as the founder ad CEO of ...

Uganda on Saturday lifted a two-month lockdown on two districts at the epicenter of the country's Ebola epidemic, amid cautious ...

Asked what's on her wish-list for her tiny clinic, Tchimaden Tafa starts to reel off a long string of items ...

The United States on Wednesday announced a $150 million initiative to bring power to hospitals in Africa, hoping to address ...

A Malian mother who gave birth to nine babies in Morocco last year returned home on Tuesday with her infants, ...

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the health sector are raising concerns over the shortage of condoms in the country. The ...

Medical and energy experts under the CLEAN-Air (Africa) platform have called for scaling up of clean cooking energy that can ...

Sitting next to a patient with depression on a garden bench in Zimbabwe's capital Harare, 70-year-old Shery Ziwakayi speaks gently, ...

As Ugandan farmer Bonaventura Senyonga prepares to bury his grandson, age-old traditions are forgotten, and fear hangs in the air ...

Pharmaceutical giant Novartis has signed a licensing agreement increasing access to a vital leukemia treatment, an UN-backed public health organization ...

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday ordered traditional healers to stop treating sick people in a bid to halt the ...

When Wuri Bailo Keita's two-year-old daughter Fatoumatta developed a fever, he took her to hospital where she was diagnosed with ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) issued an alert Wednesday over four cough and cold syrups made by Maiden Pharmaceuticals in ...

Sixty-three confirmed and probable cases have been reported in the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, including twenty-nine deaths, the World Health ...

Wearing a large hat protecting her face from the sun's rays in Cameroon, 63-year-old Jeanne now bitterly regrets using skin ...

Uganda's health ministry on Tuesday announced the country's first fatality from the highly contagious Ebola virus since 2019, declaring an ...

At least 18 minors in Kenya get infected with HIV/AIDS  virus every day. This is according to  Principal Secretary in ...

The Ministry of Health has said that there have  been no cases of Monkeypox recorded in the country so far. ...

US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Wednesday said it would sell its patented drugs at a not-for-profit basis to the world's ...

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 ...

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 ...