While the debate on whether 15-year-olds should be allowed to access to contraceptives intensifies, teenage pregnancies are reportedly still on the rise, posing problems such ... Read more »
Health officials have started using a second vaccine to in the fight against Ebola. Doctors Without Borders say the primary objective is to gain data on the effectiveness of the ... Read more »
After five years of implementation, the Women's Empowerment and Demographic Dividend in the Sahel program is producing satisfactory results. Authorities of the beneficiary ... Read more »
The 2020 budget proposed by the Nigerian government includes appropriations for 20 health-related projects - but only for construction, with no funding for staffing. The Ministry ... Read more »
The Botswana Court of Appeal has ruled in favor of the government in a legal tussle over the supply of life-saving anti-retroviral drugs. In January 2019, the government was taken ... Read more »
In 2019, just over half a million adults are living with diabetes in Kenya. This total is estimated to triple over the next 25 years, a study shows. Read more »
The World Health Organization says the European Commission's approval of an Ebola vaccine this week is a landmark moment for global health and a likely game-changer in the battle ... Read more »
The cost of the drug, rifapentine, will be cut from U.S.$45 to $15 dollars for a recommended three-month course of treatment in 100 nations - including 48 in Africa - where TB is a ... Read more »
Dis-interested and ill-prepared health-care personnel, alongside poorly maintained facilities and out-of-stock medications, threaten fragile progress towards universal health care ... Read more »
A total of 516 out of the 1,601 doctors on the state payroll face dismissal as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government continues to hold disciplinary hearings for all doctors who ... Read more »
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