29-year-old Millicent Kagonga has been volunteering to take care of cancer patients within the slums, regardless of the type of cancer they suffer from, age and gender through ... Read more »
Southern Africa is in the throes of a climate emergency, with hunger levels in the region on a previously unseen scale, the UN's World Food Programme has warned, adding that the ... Read more »
The Global Fund has given U.S.$413 739 805 to fund efforts against against Aids and tuberculosis until 2024. The money would be in addition to the funding that comes from the ... Read more »
The price of rifapentine, a lifesaving antibiotic that can prevent tuberculosis, was marked down by 66% by its manufacturer Sanofi, an announcement Gavin Churchyard for The ... Read more »
Politician and business mogul Ned Nwoko launched the Malaria Eradication In Africa Project, with the aim of ridding the continent of deadly disease caused by the malaria parasite. ... Read more »
The four-month long strike by junior doctors in Zimbabwe's major hospitals has ended with government refusing to give in to the medical staff's demands. Junior and middle level ... Read more »
More than 280,000 people have contracted measles and at least 5,700 have died from the disease in the Democratic Republic of Congo this year. The World Health Organization says ... Read more »
A Congolese clinician's frustration at being unable to give Ebola patients the quality of care they deserved has led to a ground-breaking innovation which revolutionises the ... Read more »
South Africa's prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme has achieved remarkable successes in recent years. It has improved the health and life expectancy for pregnant ... Read more »
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the trend of Nigerians travelling abroad for treatment affects the country negatively. This despite Buhari having traveled abroad several Read more »
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