WHO is urging everyone to make healthy choices including cutting down on salt use, which can help reduce the risk of high blood pressure, which in turn reduces the risk of ... Read more »
When Cyclone Idai made a landfall in Mozambique it caused huge damages and destroyed buildings including health facilities in Beira where one in six adults is living with HIV. MSF ... Read more »
A resolution passed by the East African Legislative Assembly calls for the ban on the manufacturing and importation of soaps, cosmetics and beauty ingredients containing ... Read more »
Malaria remains the leading cause of death in Mozambique, the National Directorate of Public Health has revealed that in the first four months of 2019, 2,961,429 cases of malaria ... Read more »
Armed attacks, misinformation and a growing funding gap continue to impede the response to the Ebola outbreak, with the World Health Organization warning that the situation could ... Read more »
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 »
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