Tag: Health

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 ...

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 ...

The United States on Thursday shipped nearly 5.2 million doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine to Egypt and Nigeria, a ...

The United States on Friday shipped nearly 1.9 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to Mozambique and four other African countries in ...

As Tony Ukety peers into a microscope in an effort to wipe out a devastating tropical disease, he is acutely ...

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 ...

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

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

Twenty-one passengers who were to travel to Dubai got arrested at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for presenting fake Covid-19 ...

Kenyans will have to pay between Sh. 327 to 2725 for Covid-19 if the Ministry of Health approves the best ...

A new study out of China suggests that it should be possible to develop a safe vaccine against COVID-19, though ...