Migrant women and children trapped in the battle for control of Libya's capital are being turned away from shelters, exposing them to airstrikes and sexual abuse. In the region of ... Read more »
The two top cancers for women are breast and cervical, breast cancer being the leading cause of cancer deaths in women living in developing countries and cervical cancer being the ... Read more »
The disease has infected more than 14,000 people and killed at least 164 since an outbreak began in April 2018, and is now present in 115 of 126 health districts, according to WHO. Read more »
An MSF programme in Malawi is helping thousands of sex workers to overcome barriers to health services, in part by training and employing them as health workers in their ... Read more »
The World Health Organization's panel of experts say that a wider group of contacts will now be vaccinated and it is going to reduce dosages to allow for this due to concerns over ... Read more »
The country needs a rapid and deep-rooted effort to tackle the violence that has spilled over the border from Nigeria, Chad and Central African Republic, while crackdowns on ... Read more »
Reports of people from DR Congo being prevented from crossing the border into Uganda and choosing to enter the country illegally without being screened for Ebola have raised ... Read more »
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says that in the past week, 23 cases were reported in one day, a record number since the start of the outbreak ... Read more »
Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole, who spoke in Abakaliki during the annual general conference of the Nigerian Medical Association, has expressed worry over the increasing rate of ... Read more »
Firmino Arlindo has been going door-to-door to talk to families about the importance of protecting their children after his six year-old daughter Jemita was diagnosed with polio in ... Read more »
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